Amazon Sellers’ News 1/13/20: Dog Toy Sellers Receiving VORYS Letters, Setting Lawsuits & TROs, Seller Business Verification Business Verification For the new sellers out there trying to open accounts, we are seeing Amazon crackdown on the registration process when it comes to a physical address. We do know that in
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Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph S6: How Gaining Control of Listings is Problematic So originally, this section was about control of Amazon’s sites, but it has recently been changed to Amazon’s website and services. So we do think some sellers will run into issues with this portion of
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph F4: Compensation & Moving Inventory Moving forward, Amazon will not reimburse you if you are an FBA user and your products are damaged or your inventory is lost. They will, however, compensate you. When you think of compensation, that could be anything. Amazon
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 18: Changes to Expedited Arbitration One of the most important features of the arbitration process is that it’s supposed to be fast and efficient. Both cost-wise and time-wise for sellers. Amazon’s new contract is trying to take that away from the arbitration process.
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 17: Importance of Abiding by the Law This section of the agreement hasn’t changed, but we do want to give sellers some tips to better understand this specific agreement section, and to ensure that they don’t run into similar problems. This is probably a
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 16: How Related Account Suspensions Occur What this section is saying is that the seller is always responsible for their password to their account. You are only allowed to give out your password if a third party is authorized, and you are solely
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 2: Service Fee Payments TOS Explained: the 2nd paragraph in the new business solutions agreement -which most sellers don’t realize is their contract with AMZ. Service Fee Payments: Receipt of Sales Proceeds. When it comes to the 2nd paragraph in the new business
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 14: Potential improvements, ideas, or suggestions to Amazon. There were no changes to the BSA in this section. This section essentially states if you or your affiliates elect to provide or make available suggestions, comments, ideas, improvements, feedback or materials to use in
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 13: Relationship of Parties Section 13 goes to define the relationship between parties. There were no changes made to this segment. However, I’m still going to go ahead and define what it means for sellers. So essentially, by entering into this service agreement,
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 12: Force Majeure Today I want to talk about one of the shorter provisions which are found in paragraph 12, referred to as the force majeure clause. Force majeure is just a fancy way of saying superior or intervening force and it’s actually
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 11 & 14: Disclosing Transaction Info. & Confidentiality Amazon is very adept at changing their contracts constantly in a way that protects Amazon from liability. So, as we’re going through it paragraph by paragraph in the agreement, as a whole, we saw the
Read more →Amazon’s Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 8: Limitation of Liability – Amz Placing Liability on 3rd Party Sellers In the Business Solutions Agreement, section eight, titled Limitation of Liability, was not changed in the slightest. Amazon kept this section entirely the same as it was in the previous BSA.
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 5 & 6: Representations & Indemnification It is really important that sellers realize that the change in the language of section 5 expands and broadens the scope of a seller. It originally used to use language such as “You” to specifically identify
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 1: Business Verification Suspensions Amazon seller suspensions, Plans of Action, and appeals for business verification suspensions have changed under Amazon’s new contract. The issue for suspended sellers in this paragraph is business verification. Amazon business verification is where Amazon suspends your account
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 7B: Disputes Amazon is one of the biggest online selling platforms. They deal with millions of transactions daily. Thus, disputes among parties involved in these transactions can never really be prevented. This section basically states that if any sort of dispute arises
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 7A: Disclaimer & General Release Amazon is an ecommerce giant. They have dominated the industry for so many years. This made them realize that they are exposed to more claims and liabilities as their company grows. Thus, they made sure all measures
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 7: Warranty of Non-Infringement As a seller, you need to be aware that Amazon came out with a new Participation Agreement. They made a lot of changes. If you have a good grasp of what the new Terms of Service entails, then
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 7: Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose Amazon recently released a new Terms of Service (TOS). Paragraph 7 of the new Participation Agreement focuses on the Disclaimer and General Release. There is a lot of legal jargon on this provision that
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 4: License You grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license for the duration of your original and derivative intellectual property rights to use any and all of Your Materials for the Services or other Amazon product or service, and to
Read more →Amazon’s New Terms of Service for Sellers: Paragraph 3: Amz Account Suspensions The third paragraph of the new Participation Agreement discusses how Amz account suspensions will now be handled moving forward. As far as the language goes, it seems better than it actually is. Some significant improvements have been laid
Read more →Amazon Sellers’ Guide to Avoiding Suspensions: Changes to Amazon’s Business Services Agreement Brianna Stanco, intern at AmazonSellersLawyer.com and editor to one of our books, “Your Guide to Amazon Suspensions” discusses changes to Amazon’s Business Services Agreement. Part of Germany’s antitrust authority settlement with Amazon is a 30-day notice before suspended
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