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Question for Large Inventories
 

Does anyone know if Amazon has a limit on the number of products a seller can list?

I believe Rakuten is limited to 100k, eBay has there own limits, but what about Amazon?

Can someone list 100k or even 500k products on Amazon? Offcourse not all at once, this is asking for trouble, but over time. Say if 50k is uploaded monthly?

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I don't know about the limits but there are certainly sellers with over a million listings so you can have 500k. But if you are doing this to,spam amazon they might not be so happy

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I have not heard of amazon limiting the amount of products you can list. I would strongly consider the age and type of items on my Amazon account when uploading 50K products a month lol

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You're odds of getting away with uploading 50K items per month on a brand new stealth account are about as good as me having a threesome with Scarlet Johanson and Jessica Alba.

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The odds are that good, wow

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Their limit is 2 million skus. Beyond that you pay $0.0005 per listing. I have several accounts with around 3 million skus.

Recently they seem to be limiting ASIN creation though. I have been hitting a limit at 10,000 products via brand registry or ASIN creation via UPC. Its some sort of review they're doing and you can't list anymore products until they say so. On one account with brand registry I successfully convinced them to let me list but it took a week. On another account they're still fighting me after two weeks and trying to find products that match mine to say I have to match to existing ASIN's. If you're matching to existing ASIN's this limit doesn't apply. I just set up an account today and listed against 700,000 of my previous ASIN's from a suspended account.

Yes I know, but this is what I do to be up and running fast.

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In a week he'll be back complaining:

"I had a new fresh IP, a real credit card, bought a brand new laptop, and they STILL linked me!!! How did this happen!?!??" :pound:

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Who will be back complaining?

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If someone is listing 700,000 sku's and holding stocks I would imagine that account would be selling over $100k per week and have an account manager. So if the account was so big, why were you suspended? What did you do wrong?

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Let's not jump to conclusions on this :FF:

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I'm referring to you, guitar.

It's a well-known fact in this forum that Amazon can link via unique combinations of inventory, and 700K is a DEFINITE link, no matter how you slice it.

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With 700k listings, has Amazon imposed any restrictions, further reviews etc etc?
Are you required to update this regularly? I did read that they suggest you update your inventory, stock levels, delete items etc at least once every 24 hours. Is this true or just rumours?

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Sure they suggest that. Anyone with more than 1k in inventory should do that...it's just common sense.

Do they REQUIRE it? Of course not. How would they keep track of you reviewing your inventory? It wouldn't be possible. But it's necessary, especially if you sell on multiple channels.

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Our products are created on demand so once loaded in I never touch them again if the ASIN's already existed. Usually they do because they have been loaded in previously from another account that has been suspended via brand registry. I already know Amazon is going to link me to previous accounts but it takes them roughly a month or more if I sell under $1000 per disbursement period, in which case I've already sold plenty to make it worth it across multiple accounts and actually gotten a few disbursements before suspension. Usually once the account is suspended within a couple of hours I have the another account fired up with the same products selling. Like I said, lasts a month or two.

My basic cost to open a new account is $20 for the giftcard(of which I can use when the account gets suspended) and maybe $10.00 for a phone number depending if I need a new burner phone and if I've used up my google voice allotment. Within an hour I have an account operating with that amount of products on it with no more things needed on the account.

I have several long term accounts but the products on those arent' as under fire as my "blow n go" accounts as I call them so they last months even years. Those accounts have over 3 million skus.

I've been operating the blow n go accounts all year with no problems as long as you are ok waiting 90 days for final disbursements. At this point I've caught up to previously suspended accounts and its almost like I'm getting paid regularly.

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So basically you happy with sales of around $4k over 2 months with 700,000 listings. Seems a pretty crap business in my opinion.

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Precisely. Far superior to narrow down to the 1k or so listings that are making money, and listing only those.

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Our sales are 20K per month on those 700,000 listings spread over 5 accounts. And considering it took me about 8 hours to put those 700,000 listings together including sourcing..I'm fine with it. Profits are great on them. Takes me about an hour to get an account up and products on it and then its good for a month or two.

My other accounts do about $40K per month with similar products and a similar time frame of sourcing so ya I'm ok with it. We have some other very specialized brands where we've hand selected the products but the niche is much smaller and ROI is much more apparent and easy to forecast.

Basically I throw a wide net on some and a much smaller net on others but it balances out. We automate almost everything in house using scripts and other home grown tools built in linux to generate the files, source, and do what we need. We're fairly automated.

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We do that too on our other brands. I counted our sales channels yesterday. I'm actively running 16 amazon accounts, 5 ebay accounts, 11 bonanza accounts, and 5 websites. Of those we have a mix of millions of products, to some with only 30 products for that niche. We run a ton of our own internal tools to manage everything and some third party tools. Focus is on low overhead, low customer maintenance, good profits, and quality products.

It works for us. :)

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These guys selling millions of items and im on like 10+, there again I'm not as established as them

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Why precisely do you need 5 Bonanza accounts?

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Yes but in his post (17) he said he had 5 amazon accounts and 4 minutes later he has 16 accounts (post 18). Ask me he another talking ****

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took the words right out of my mouth. I currently have -1 bonanza accounts :rolleyes:

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BLIMEY guitar18 you sourced and listed 700,000 items in 8 hours!, did you really say that?, how on earth did you manage it, I mean what are you an automaton or something. I know you said you have a ton off internal tools to help you but when I sit down and work out how much stuff I can list in 1 hour it is not even remotely any where approaching 100,000 which it would need to be to get near you listing pace.

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Hmm...seems like I'm not the only one who finds this story fishy.

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Bonanza booths have a 75,000 item limit.

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Those particular 700,000 products were set up over 5 accounts. My other brand lines, including accounts in the 3 million sku range, which I've also mentioned in this thread around post #4, make up the other amazon accounts. Diversify right and reduce risk? All I care about is spreading the money made over multiple accounts in case they get suspended, reviewed or whatever else Amazon comes up with to mess with us.

Not sure why you're so negative to me but to each his own I guess. If I'm not mistaken the OP was asking for help with large inventories and I offered up my experience. You guys can take it with a grain of salt if you like but what I've written is my experience.

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Yes sales are not good on there at all. We tried it out recently and it was fairly easily to convert our product information from our Amazon spreadsheets to Bonanza's CSV format so it didn't take much work. I like that they load their products all into Google Shopping and they have a 3% transaction rate. There's no upkeep so its worth it for me. The only hang up was setting up the 11 accounts but we re-used the same information, per their community documentation. Had a slight hiccup with it but then they let us slide once we verified our feedback from ebay.