Anyone do better from website than from Amazon and ebay
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Hi All,
In light of some very scary changes on Amazon and their ever ending quest to try and make things seem better I feel I like to spread out the risk in my business. I have always had a site but it’s never done very well however in saying that I have never put any effort into it: that has changed as of last week.
I have seen some horror stories on the Amazon seller forum of businesses with 10,000+ orders a month with T/O 1m+ just being shut down over night due to this new bot giving out policy warnings regarding listing details - it is essentially connected to negative feedback: if you get a bad feedback a system picks this up and gives you a warning that your listing is rubbish and to fix it. People have had 3 of these and been shut down. At this point you need to give Amazon an "action plan" of how you intend to improve things. Blows my mind! This new “feature” started in March/April 2015.
In light of this for me having a website to spread out the risk is a key goal of mine for this year.
This got me curious to find out from other people who run online businesses on how they fair in terms of running their own website. I would be interested to find out especially from people who also run an Amazon or eBay account or both to see how they weight up.
Thanks
In light of some very scary changes on Amazon and their ever ending quest to try and make things seem better I feel I like to spread out the risk in my business. I have always had a site but it’s never done very well however in saying that I have never put any effort into it: that has changed as of last week.
I have seen some horror stories on the Amazon seller forum of businesses with 10,000+ orders a month with T/O 1m+ just being shut down over night due to this new bot giving out policy warnings regarding listing details - it is essentially connected to negative feedback: if you get a bad feedback a system picks this up and gives you a warning that your listing is rubbish and to fix it. People have had 3 of these and been shut down. At this point you need to give Amazon an "action plan" of how you intend to improve things. Blows my mind! This new “feature” started in March/April 2015.
In light of this for me having a website to spread out the risk is a key goal of mine for this year.
This got me curious to find out from other people who run online businesses on how they fair in terms of running their own website. I would be interested to find out especially from people who also run an Amazon or eBay account or both to see how they weight up.
Thanks
Hi Aquarius909,
You bring up an extremely valid point in that google can also decide your fate very quickly if you are knocked away from page 1 or 2.
In saying this I am told if you have organic growth on your site and build your ranking organically then your probably going to be ok however for me as a business owner its more of a case of spreading the risk, if I have three revenue streams rather than 1 or 2, if 1 shuts down then its not the complete end of the world.
It's nice to hear a website is doing well more than amazon and ebay! then again either of them could pick up!
You bring up an extremely valid point in that google can also decide your fate very quickly if you are knocked away from page 1 or 2.
In saying this I am told if you have organic growth on your site and build your ranking organically then your probably going to be ok however for me as a business owner its more of a case of spreading the risk, if I have three revenue streams rather than 1 or 2, if 1 shuts down then its not the complete end of the world.
It's nice to hear a website is doing well more than amazon and ebay! then again either of them could pick up!
It is actually very positive to see that people are actually building their own sites and own brands.
I seem to do fine on ebay and amazon but it does play on me every day especially when out of blue even if its once every 6 months that we get some random and silly email about something we are being told off about.
Reading horror stories as a few posters have mentioned about people investing in such huge set ups for it to close overnight is just plain terrifying.
I am currently in the same boat regarding a brand - I have quite a good brand but certainly can be better. It seems to be better than I thought it was though as two very large retailers contacted me out the blue to say they wanted to stock our items so this can only be a positive sign.
Very reluctant to proceed due to various conditions they set - such as bargain prices, 90 day payment terms etc etc
I seem to do fine on ebay and amazon but it does play on me every day especially when out of blue even if its once every 6 months that we get some random and silly email about something we are being told off about.
Reading horror stories as a few posters have mentioned about people investing in such huge set ups for it to close overnight is just plain terrifying.
I am currently in the same boat regarding a brand - I have quite a good brand but certainly can be better. It seems to be better than I thought it was though as two very large retailers contacted me out the blue to say they wanted to stock our items so this can only be a positive sign.
Very reluctant to proceed due to various conditions they set - such as bargain prices, 90 day payment terms etc etc
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