Its a lot quieter on here nowadays?

[amzrocket]

Originally Posted by yungsc1005

Yup exactly. They should've made this forum more of a paid memberships. Like $1000+ for year membership. Instead they invited everybody on here for free lol.

Then there would just be nobody here lol, not to mention a fee wouldn't stop a big company from getting in if there was valuable information they wanted to get at.

The only way to avoid the marketplace employees from getting in is to thoroughly vet people, which is problematic because people who are involved in some kind of wrongdoing aren't going to share a bunch of personal information to identify themselves.

[quantum]

Originally Posted by amzrocket

This is also why people are unwilling to share the specifics of how to get around a platform's controls. If enough people do it and talk about it they will find a way to counteract it.

I think most people on here view each other as possible competitors. Why would someone share specifics on their business when it took them years to obtain the knowledge?

Posts on here garner many times more views than replies simply because individuals are often hesitant to contribute and share their knowledge. Instead, they scour the forums in search of the specific issue they're encountering.

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by quantum

For me personally... If I'm quiet, my accounts are doing well and keeping me busy. I've had to change my business model quite a bit in the past year to stay alive and adapt to the changes. It's not impossible, you just have to be persistent. The strong survive in this game.

Finally some statement of wisdom. =)

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by yungsc1005

Yup exactly. They should've made this forum more of a paid memberships. Like $1000+ for year membership. Instead they invited everybody on here for free lol.

No, the forum was created to offer support tp those who have the stealth guide or Amazon Ghost.

This is actually a support forum and for people to get together to help each other.

For more "sensitive" info, we have the VIP and exec sections that's not privy to the public eye.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by amzrocket

This is also why people are unwilling to share the specifics of how to get around a platform's controls. If enough people do it and talk about it they will find a way to counteract it.

very logical - and lot of ppl will cherry pick

[amzrocket]

Another thing to keep in mind, in the past the techniques used to create multiple accounts were mostly legal. As things have tightened, some of the techniques needed to get past new controls may not be legal. Openly posting a guide or selling an e-book teaching people how to do something illegal generally isn't smart.

[sax4]

Originally Posted by amzrocket

Another thing to keep in mind, in the past the techniques used to create multiple accounts were mostly legal. As things have tightened, some of the techniques needed to get past new controls may not be legal. Openly posting a guide or selling an e-book teaching people how to do something illegal generally isn't smart.

Aspkin will move to the dark web

[Meester]

Bonanza now charging a 'non-refundable' $10 to open an account, as well as charging $2 per sale if you don't use their shipping labels

[rsot]

Originally Posted by Meester

Bonanza now charging a 'non-refundable' $10 to open an account, as well as charging $2 per sale if you don't use their shipping labels

the 2 dollar is a standard cost regardless of sale amount percentage cut?

[Freakzilla]

Mate, your entire business infringes on other people's IP. Be thankful of the large amount of money you have made, and haven't ended up in prison.

Originally Posted by ghettotige

I just had a look at my accounts and between 2017 and 2023 I have turned over 9.9 million, their fees at average 18% means they earnt £1.8 million out of me during that time. I almost feel like somebody at Amazon should give a damn that Im considering knocking it on the head.
Its their business model that forced me to look at stealth in the first place letting the Chinese sellers jump all over my listings, suspensions for really stupid things, shutting down accounts while they review, launch Amazon Merch in the UK and ghost all my listings so their the only t-shirt seller, introduce free returns, force me to use tracking on all shipping- Yada Yada Yada.

Do I sound bitter?

[Automasters]

Originally Posted by Meester

Bonanza now charging a 'non-refundable' $10 to open an account, as well as charging $2 per sale if you don't use their shipping labels

This is interesting as Etsy has recently started doing the same, charging for new accounts. I suppose it is one way to weed out some of the ⊗⊗⊗⊗ accounts.

[Automasters]

Originally Posted by agent006140

If you go to the Etsy forum,plenty of sellers are crying they have not seen any sales for weeks and even months.
I am still getting orders,unfortunatley they all come from Google marketing?
Buyers have become very good at bottom fishing as welll

I have noticed the same - have had a crap ton of orders this week alone and they also all come from the Google advertising it seems.

[rswomA]

Do you work on Merch by amazon?
And for POD, it works well on etsy, but what about ebay, did you tried?

[estrada]

We need a forum just for OGs. There are too many spies here. It has basically become impossible to do stealth now.

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by estrada

We need a forum just for OGs. There are too many spies here. It has basically become impossible to do stealth now.

Well we have non public sections of the forum and specially the executive section that's only visible to the reds.

[yungsc1005]

I'm not getting any sales on Amazon anymore. Which is weird. I would get at least 1-2 sales daily. On a consistent basis WITHOUT a buy box mind you. Now its maybe 1 sale every 2-3 weeks.

Not sure if its seasonal demand is low, something wrong with my account, or the economy slump.

[JamesNorth101]

Originally Posted by yungsc1005

Yup exactly. They should've made this forum more of a paid memberships. Like $1000+ for year membership. Instead they invited everybody on here for free lol.

I don think we would have all that many members then

[JamesNorth101]

Originally Posted by estrada

We need a forum just for OGs. There are too many spies here. It has basically become impossible to do stealth now.

Im not sure that that is why. Things have changed at eBay.

Still quite possible but the info to make accounts just isnt getting shared around in the open as much as it once was as then everyone does it and the work arounds get patched

[rsot]

Originally Posted by agent006140

retail sales have slowed down this year,I see few Blue Care vans these days ,people are also doing more shopping at brick and mortar stores.

i think it depends more on the age of the population being studied - younger still like online more so than brick and mortar

[murdered_by_ebay]

Originally Posted by yungsc1005

I'm not getting any sales on Amazon anymore. Which is weird. I would get at least 1-2 sales daily. On a consistent basis WITHOUT a buy box mind you. Now its maybe 1 sale every 2-3 weeks.

Not sure if its seasonal demand is low, something wrong with my account, or the economy slump.

what only that matters is the sales ranking and position in the seller list , on amazon people usually buy just from 1-2 sellers from the top and the others either get nothing or little even if the price difference is a few cent

[yungsc1005]

Originally Posted by murdered_by_ebay

what only that matters is the sales ranking and position in the seller list , on amazon people usually buy just from 1-2 sellers from the top and the others either get nothing or little even if the price difference is a few cent

Yup and if you try to change the price up, you’ll get delisted fast. It’s bullshyt.

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by yungsc1005

I'm not getting any sales on Amazon anymore. Which is weird. I would get at least 1-2 sales daily. On a consistent basis WITHOUT a buy box mind you. Now its maybe 1 sale every 2-3 weeks.

Not sure if its seasonal demand is low, something wrong with my account, or the economy slump.

Did you check your asin and see if you got hijackers?