The follower threatened the seller: If you complain again, you will be harassed indefinitely...

Sellers cry out: When will Amazon cancel the practice of copy-selling?

On the Amazon platform, I believe that most sellers will encounter the problem of being copied by others. Copy selling has a significant impact on product sales. Therefore, sellers basically hate copy selling. However, many copy selling are very rampant and even threaten or intimidate sellers.

How to complain about copy-selling has become a top priority. Recently, an industry insider shared a method to catch copy-selling, which is said to be quite effective.

Rampant! The follower even threatened and intimidated the seller

Speaking of follow-selling, many Amazon sellers tend to believe that follow-selling is not a business that can be exposed. When following the seller, the follower will often hide temporarily out of "shame" and then secretly repeat the follow-selling operation at midnight.

In fact, this is not the case. As follow-selling becomes more rampant, some follow-selling even blatantly threaten sellers after receiving complaints and warnings from sellers. Recently, an Amazon seller said that after his store was followed by follow-selling, the follow-selling directly left a message to the seller: If you have any questions, please communicate by email. If you complain about me again, my team will harass me indefinitely.

In this regard, the seller suddenly felt that it was crazy to follow the sale. Following the sale was illegal in the first place, but the other party had no "sense of shame" and instead threatened the seller openly.

In fact, similar situations have occurred more than once.

Previously, sellers have said that the follower not only cleared their own inventory, but also threatened to hack their links. One of the followers even turned the tables and said that the seller was the follower and needed to stop selling the ASIN within 24 hours, otherwise he would buy this ASIN and other ASINs with higher sales in the store, and report the seller to Amazon for selling counterfeit products.

There are also sellers who said that after they filed a complaint against a brand for follow-selling, they were accused by the follow-seller of being "too heartless." According to this follow-seller, in view of the seller's actions, they will continue to pay attention to the seller's store and are willing to use their own company's one month's follow-selling profits to increase the seller's order volume. If the seller withdraws the complaint, then there is room for negotiation.

According to the personal experience of cross-border people, in addition to some companies that specialize in follow-selling, some of the sellers are actually employees of their own companies.

An insider said that many Amazon operators have their own side jobs and secretly open Amazon stores. In order to save the cost of trial and error in their startups, many Amazon operators will directly sell the company's products. If they are discovered, they will face direct dismissal from the company. In more serious cases, the company may ask for financial losses or even sue them.

Proven and effective! Sellers discover a new way to report follow-selling

How to prevent copycat sales is the primary concern for cross-border sellers. If you are not careful, you may end up being blocked instead of being able to prevent copycat sales.

In fact, sellers have been caught in this situation one after another. According to the emails sent by Amazon, the sellers who follow the sellers have violated Amazon's policies by harming other sellers, buyers or Amazon (for example, placing fake orders to limit other sellers' inventory).

How can we effectively catch the follow-up sales? Recently, industry insiders found that the 12315 platform can actually catch the follow-up sales, and the effect is very good! ! ! The following are the specific steps:

1. Find the company information of the follow-selling seller on the front desk of Amazon, search the full name of the company on Baidu, and find the unified social credit code.

2. Complain about this follow-selling company on the national 12315 platform. The reasons for the complaint can be as follows: First, declare that the seller's registered address is fake, because as a follow-seller, his address is generally not real. After all, if you fill in the real address, it is easy to be beaten up by the seller. Secondly, report this seller for counterfeiting and selling fake products, and also selling counterfeit products on the Amazon platform.

3. After the 12315 platform successfully handles the issue, the business status of the follow-selling company will be shown as abnormal. The seller can then go to the Amazon platform to complain about the abnormal situation of the seller's company and wait for Amazon to investigate.

However, according to sellers’ experiments, this method has certain limitations. Currently, complaints can only be successfully filed against sellers who are registered as Chinese companies.

In addition, Amazon also launched a new policy for unbranded products some time ago, which means that non-branded products can also be easily copied and sold.

"No-brand products" are also called "white-label products". They refer to non-brand products that do not belong to any identifiable brand. When sellers create new product information, they should use the "Generic" string in the brand name field.

If a seller creates a new listing using the brand name "Generic" or its local language translation, other sellers will not be able to change the product detail page or add offers, which helps buyers distinguish between similar-looking non-branded products.

If a seller attempts to change or add an offer to a product detail page for another seller's unbranded product, the seller will receive a product information error and will be directed to create a new product using the Add a New Product tool. The brand name policy will still apply to all products.

Sellers who need to catch up with others can try the above method.

Sellers hate follow-selling! There is even a service to track and sell follow-selling ?

I believe everyone hates following sales. When it comes to following sales, sellers always have many complaints:

I worked for a company before, and they would get up at night to follow up on sales.

It's really annoying to sell gou! It's like a dog-skin plaster, you can't get rid of it.

When Amazon encountered stubborn copycats during the peak season, its shopping carts were snatched away.

If the follow-selling happens again, I will change the title to: "Follow-selling dog si..."

Those who follow others are so heartless. Can't they walk independently? Why do they have to go down this path?

I have been being copied for half a month, and before I can drive away the copycats, new ones come.

When can I cancel the follow-selling on Amazon?

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It is understood that as cross-border e-commerce has become more and more well-known to people outside the circle, there are more and more strategies on "teaching newbies how to make money by following sales". When the editor searched on a certain platform, there were teaching topics such as "How to follow sales on Amazon?", "What should I pay attention to when following sales?", "How can I quickly place orders by following sales on Amazon?", etc.

The sellers who were copied said helplessly that the links they had worked hard to build were snatched away by the copycats without any professional ethics. If everyone just made their own products honestly, the business atmosphere of cross-border e-commerce would be improved a lot.

Faced with followers who cannot be driven away, many angry sellers threatened to go to their homes and beat them up. There have been news reports that sellers smashed their companies and beat up the followers after finding them. In addition, industry insiders revealed that there are now services that track down followers and beat them up, charging fees based on physique , number of gang members , degree of injury , etc.

Although follow-selling is annoying, sellers must remember to protect their rights legally and reasonably, otherwise the loss will outweigh the gain.

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