Good news: Many sellers have received notifications to lift shipping restrictions...

After many sellers reported that the number of new store FBA shipments has increased to 3,000, Amazon has brought good news to all sellers. The editor learned that the FBA shipment restrictions of Amazon Japan site have been lifted, which is undoubtedly a major benefit for sellers.

Glass slag in sugar is the platform's usual style. It is understood that starting from April 8, Amazon delivery reports will no longer include the buyer's name and address. At the same time, Amazon sellers also need to update the "melting temperature" attribute for ASIN, which is a required item!

In addition, the problem of slow listing has recently been complained by sellers. The freight forwarder said that due to the strike of warehouse workers in Europe, one FBA warehouse may experience delayed listing and slow signature.

Amazon Japan removes shipping restrictions

Shipping restrictions have always been a "headache" for Amazon sellers . Last year, due to the impact of the epidemic, Amazon implemented shipping restrictions. Since then, there have been rumors that Amazon would cancel them, but the result was not as expected.

The existence of shipping restrictions causes great pain to sellers. Many sellers want to use black technology to break through the shipping restrictions, but in the end they are ruthlessly blocked.

As the epidemic situation gradually improves, Amazon has also begun to relax its shipping restrictions slightly, but what makes sellers even happier is that Amazon has directly cancelled the shipping restrictions on the Japanese site, so sellers can now ship happily!

Een.com learned that Amazon sent a notice to sellers on the Japanese site: Starting April 12, 2021, we have lifted the replenishment quantity limit for your Amazon Logistics products. We implemented these replenishment quantity limits in July 2020 to help us properly receive and store sellers' products in order to successfully prepare for the peak sales season. It is recommended that you replenish your products according to the replenishment quantity recommended by Amazon and continue to improve your inventory performance by managing excess inventory.

When this news came out, some sellers were very excited, while others were very unhappy ↓

A: The shipping restrictions have finally been lifted, so we no longer have to worry about being out of stock;

B: The shipping restrictions were lifted just before Prime Day, so this year's Prime Day will be a big sales day.

C: Although there are no shipping restrictions, the order volume is mediocre, so it doesn't matter whether the order is cancelled or not;

D: It is useless to cancel the shipping restrictions on the Japanese site. The European and American sites are the highlights.

After learning this news yesterday, many sellers speculated that the Japanese site has already cancelled the shipping restrictions, and the European and American sites are expected to cancel them soon. Some sellers even came to ask the editor about this matter ...

For this reason, the editor asked Amazon's investment manager, who said that the shipping restrictions on the Japanese site have indeed been lifted, but the shipping restrictions on the European and American sites will not be lifted for the time being.

Although it will not be cancelled for the time being, it can be seen from various signs that many parts of Amazon have resumed normal operations this year. The shipping restrictions cannot be kept in place forever. It is just a matter of time. Sellers should not rush it.

Starting April 8, Amazon delivery reports will no longer include buyer names and addresses

It is reported that from April 8, 2021, Amazon's delivery report will no longer include the name and street address of Amazon buyers. This move is intended to prevent sellers from mailing promotional postcards to buyers or conducting off-platform transactions.

Amazon said that in order to support sales tax use cases for US sellers, the platform released this report in another form, called Amazon Shipping Shipment - Remitting Tax Report, which is accessible to US sellers with Shipping Tax Report user permissions.

An FBA seller said that after Amazon did this, their main entrance to contact customers with negative reviews was completely blocked. It is understood that self-delivery sellers can still access customer details, while Amazon FBA sellers cannot.

Slow stocking in FBA warehouse

In addition to the above news, the editor has learned that there have been more discussions about the slowness of FBA listings recently↓↓↓

A: The cheating IND9 warehouse has not put the products on the shelves even after one month of signing for them. If this continues, my account will be invalidated.

B: The IND4 and MDT2 warehouses have also been poisonous recently, which made me so angry that I went berserk.

C: I don’t want to suffer from the pain of having products that sell well never go on the shelves after they are signed for, and having products that don’t sell well go on the shelves as soon as they are signed for.

Recently, Amazon's European site has been pushed to the forefront because of the strike issue. An informed source said that 6 of Amazon's 11 logistics centers in Germany were on strike, and these warehouse workers did not wear masks, resulting in this sequelae: goods piled up with no logistics information.

At present, some freight forwarders have issued the following notice:

According to DPD's notice, due to the recent adjustment of the warehouse entry plan of Amazon Amm warehouse, the goods currently sent to this warehouse are likely to be delayed in being put on the shelves and signed for slowly. The following is the information of this warehouse↓

Spedition Amm

Hamburger Str. 99, 90451 Nürnberg, Germany

In order to reduce delivery waiting costs and goods return costs, sellers should try to avoid sending goods from this warehouse in the past week.

The freight forwarder also said: "Goods from other Amazon warehouses are being delivered normally. At the same time, DPD will continue to communicate closely with the Amm warehouse to minimize the return of goods. We also hope that the Amazon Amm warehouse can return to normal as soon as possible."

Sellers who have goods shipped to this warehouse should keep abreast of the latest developments and take preventive measures in advance.

Given that slow FBA listings are common recently , a seller also shared his tips on how to get Amazon listings↓

Provide the ISA number (the number for the scheduled delivery to the warehouse, which can be provided by the freight forwarder) to open a case to check the shipment. I have personally tested that it works. According to the freight forwarder, although the United States no longer provides POD, the ISA number has the same function as POD.

The seller said that although he could not be sure that this method would work for all sellers, sellers who were eager to put their products on the shelves could try it.

Amazon Sellers Need to Update “Melt Temperature” Attribute for ASINs

Yien.com learned that early this morning, Amazon US issued an announcement stating that from April 22, sellers must update the "melting temperature" attribute for ASIN. The specific content is as follows↓

To help improve the customer experience, we have added a melting temperature attribute to ASINs. Starting April 22, 2021, this attribute will be required when you complete the following information:

• New ASIN

• When any attribute on the product information page is updated for all existing ASINs

For meltable items such as chocolate, lip balm, and wax-based products, sellers need to select “Yes” for heat-sensitive products and provide information about the melting temperature of the product.

Although melting temperature is currently an optional attribute, we recommend that you update affected ASINs immediately so that it takes effect on April 22.

In this announcement, Amazon mentioned the need to provide information on the melting temperature of the product. This is a required item for sellers selling meltable products. Sellers selling such products should hurry up and prepare!

Regarding the update of this policy, one seller said: “Please do not apply this policy to all products. If it is not a meltable product, we will need to manually edit each of our listings and indicate that the product is not temperature controlled.”

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