Amazon cuts down supplier accounts

The supplier account (Vendor Central) that has caused everyone on Amazon to be insecure because of abusing its permissions that far exceed those of ordinary SC accounts to tamper with and copy competitors' products, is now in a situation where everyone is shouting and beating it like a rat crossing the street.

Not only do people hate VCs, but even Amazon has frequently taken various measures to restrict VC accounts. The last attack on VCs was just two weeks ago. You can click the link below to review it.

New policy! VC can’t change the price now?!

Just two weeks ago, the VCs’ right to modify product prices was restricted. Now, the sword is once again being chopped off VC accounts.

Just yesterday, foreign media reported that Amazon began to gradually shut down the "Direct Fulfillment" function (formerly called "Dropship") of VC accounts. This function allows suppliers to deliver goods directly from their own warehouses to customers without going through Amazon's operation center.

Recently, more and more VC sellers who use this feature have found that their inventory has been reset to 0, and they have also been notified by Amazon that no deliveries can be made from this warehouse.

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Even Amazon's official seller forum is full of discussions and speculation about Amazon's suspension of this feature. Amazon has not yet made any official explanation for this.

What happens next after VC accounts are cut again and again?

Since the VC Anaconda incident at the end of last year, Amazon’s attitude towards VC accounts has changed. “Since VC rights have been abused so seriously, it’s better to just cut it off,” so Amazon launched the “One Vendor” plan to merge SC and VC accounts.

The benefits of merging the two platforms for Amazon are obvious. A large number of people who operate the VC backend independently, and many duplicate functions and systems in both SC and VC backends can be merged to reduce a lot of operation and maintenance costs. Amazon also connected the previously isolated seller backends to more conveniently count product quotes, buyer orders and shopping preferences to make its in-site advertising system more attractive.

However, for VC sellers, the account permissions after the merger will definitely require major changes, and quite a number of VC sellers have already started the account transfer process.

At the peak of VC accounts, which was around the middle of last year, the market price of VC accounts was once hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but now it has ended up like this in just over half a year. This shows that Amazon is responding faster and faster to the crooked ways like black technology, and the way you get it at a high price may be blocked by Amazon before you can make back your money.

What other tricks are there to make money on Amazon now? Scan the QR code and chat with the little clone to receive the welfare trick package~

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