Another Amazon seller quits: I will quit after clearing out my inventory...

The inventory capacity of a large number of Amazon sellers has been reduced again and again, and the sellers are crying: Even Pinduoduo is not so slashing!

At the beginning of each week, I always hear Amazon sellers wailing: My inventory capacity has dropped again. The platform has repeatedly cut sellers' inventory capacity, and the number of items that sellers can ship has decreased, causing many companies to go on vacation.

When the test came, sellers had different reactions. Some said that the cross-border winter was coming and the most important thing was to survive! In fact, while a group of sellers were still struggling, many small sellers had been directly cleaned out and completely left the cross-border circle.

At this time, many sellers take risks and choose the method of breaking through the storage capacity limit promoted by the service providers. However, they do not know that the convenience of shipping may come temporarily, but they will be punished in the future. The consequences of challenging the platform rules are bound to come soon. At present, some investment managers have issued warnings to sellers against using the methods such as storage capacity upgrades promoted by service providers.

Inventory capacity keeps decreasing, sellers start clearing out inventory to increase inventory capacity

Although inventory reduction is a commonplace topic, every time it is mentioned, it always touches the fragile nerves of a large number of sellers. It is also the topic of inventory that makes Amazon sellers deeply understand that although our joys may not be the same, our sorrows are always interlinked:

A: Can everyone still stock up? The warehouse is really idle now . There has been no stock for several weeks . The backend replenishment limit has exploded , and the replenishment volume of more than 10,000 has dropped directly to a few thousand .

B: A month ago, the limit for clothing was 170,000 yuan , and the limit for shoes was 18,000 yuan . Now the limit for clothing has dropped to 80,000 yuan and the limit for shoes has dropped to 4,000 yuan. Who is being spared by this fate?

C: The inventory capacity has been reduced by tens of thousands, but my sales have remained stable, so why did Amazon cut my quota?

D: Every day when I come to the company, the first thing I do is check the storage capacity. Oh, as expected, it has decreased again. Did I slack off today? Or did I slack off?

E: The replenishable quantity has become one-third of the original quantity. It seems that there will be no hope of replenishing the stock within one or two months.

F: What’s the use of having a large storage capacity ? It gets cut every once in a while. No, it gets cut every few days. I’ve already fainted in the toilet crying .

G: With the current storage capacity, overseas warehouse transit cannot solve the problem. It is broken.

Amazon has become addicted to cutting sellers’ inventory capacity, and sellers are flooding with complaints.

" Am I playing with Amazon, or is Amazon playing with me? " an Amazon seller asked a soul-searching question. It is understood that when Amazon briefly lifted the inventory restrictions, a large number of sellers started retaliatory delivery mode. Who knew that Amazon would limit warehouses again now? In order to increase inventory capacity, scenes of clearance sales can be seen everywhere on the Amazon platform . As Yien mentioned in yesterday's article, Amazon's top sellers in various categories are reducing prices or continuously dealing. The editor learned that a company's large Amazon account cut more than 1 million stocks .

It is difficult for big sellers to survive, and so are small sellers. What’s worse is that the speed at which sellers sell their products cannot keep up with the speed of Amazon’s SQL batch processing .  

Because the inventory capacity is still on the decline no matter how the sellers clear the inventory, there is a rumor that even if the seller removes a large amount of inventory, the algorithm will reduce your inventory capacity again the next time it runs. This has happened in Canada FBA. Whether the statement is accurate remains to be tested, but it is certain that the mentality of a large number of sellers has collapsed.

Another seller who couldn’t make it on Amazon has run away!

According to Amazon, the more products a seller sells, the more quantity they can ship. The fewer they sell, the slower they ship, and the smaller quantity they can ship. Then, the less the seller ships, the Amazon warehouse will not have enough stock to sell or may even run out of stock, which will continue to result in fewer and slower sales. If this cycle repeats several times, the seller will be out of business.

Amazon sellers who are falling deeper and deeper into the pit every day say that it is really too difficult to do business on Amazon. It is getting worse every day and every month! With the current market situation this year, I really can’t understand why so many newbies are still entering Amazon!

Nothing is difficult in the world as long as you are willing to give up . In a corner that we cannot see, another Amazon seller who can’t make it anymore is planning to run away.

It is understood that a supplier posted a picture of a clearance sale at a low price on his WeChat Moments, and the picture also had an FBA barcode. People familiar with the matter said that the seller's account capacity was severely compressed and sales were not good, so he had to entrust the factory to clear the goods and planned to leave after clearing the warehouse. In fact, there are really many sellers who are in trouble this year. It is reported that many suppliers have reported that they have encountered order cancellations by Amazon sellers during this period. The procurement task of many companies is no longer to buy goods from factories, but to find ways to sell goods back to factories .

Due to excessive optimism at the beginning of the year, many sellers have extremely optimistic stocking plans for the future, but they don’t realize that peak conditions are not common, but low periods are often present . Now these sellers are ready to leave after processing their inventory and stop doing cross-border business.

After the account storage capacity restriction policy came out, the editor previously summarized 6 coping methods summarized by an Amazon seller in the article :

1. Increase the number of Amazon accounts;

2. Use overseas warehouse for transit;

3. Improve product development capabilities;

4. Increase the proportion of first-leg air transport;

5. Clear out redundant inventory;

6. Change career.

At that time, I thought the sixth point about changing careers was just a joke, but now it seems that changing careers has become the first choice for many Amazon sellers.

Once the goods are sold out, they cannot be replenished, and many sellers are on vacation!

Of course, some people choose to withdraw from cross-border travel, while others choose to go directly into vacation status.

When will work resume? Unknown.

The editor has learned that there are many sellers who choose to take a short vacation.

One seller said that all his products were sold out and Amazon would not allow him to restock them . The goods had been floating on the sea for a month and a half and he didn’t know where they were still , so he had no choice but to take a vacation .

Another seller who also chose to take a vacation said that a large amount of goods are now stuck in overseas warehouses. The long replenishment cycle and extremely small storage capacity have made him extremely tired. It would be better for him to go on vacation directly and adjust his injured heart.

It is easy to take a vacation, but behind it lies the seller's helplessness. As one seller said, he did not want to take a vacation, but the reality forced him to do so. The previous restrictions on shipments at least meant that there was work to do. The current restrictions on shipments have caused a sharp drop in development efforts, with zero operational inventory and zero procurement work. Logistics work is in a semi-stagnant , semi-paralyzed state , so he has to take a vacation even if he doesn't want to.

There are many ways to break through the storage capacity limit, and the danger is already buried

Sellers are complaining bitterly, but many service providers are busy making money. It is understood that various methods of breaking through storage capacity restrictions are flying all over the sky, and some service providers even say that their methods are reasonable and compliant. In this regard, an investment manager spoke ↓↓↓

The investment manager said that regarding the issue of upgrading storage capacity, sellers should give priority to using overseas warehouses to solve short-term problems, and do not easily believe in the so-called "European storage capacity upgrade" from other channels . Currently, Amazon's internal European storage capacity upgrade has been suspended for two consecutive weeks .

The editor would also like to remind all sellers that goods that cannot be placed in Amazon warehouses should be temporarily placed in overseas warehouses. Do not be superstitious about the so-called methods of breaking through storage capacity restrictions, and do not believe in Amazon’s internal operations. Even if sellers rely on fancy operations to obtain more shipments, they will also be faced with high excess fees in the later stage, or your goods in transit will be directly cancelled and cannot be sent to Amazon warehouses.

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