Amazon News

20/05/2013

I had an interesting conversation today with a contact in the ecommerce world and I asked him which is his favourite site – Amazon or eBay. His instant answer was “Amazon”. I then went on to postulate that most marketplace consumers have a favourite site which they mainly buy on and that eBay customers tend [...]

16/05/2013

“HMRC has an exemplary record in relentlessly challenging those who avoid tax. We have recovered £34bn in additional revenues from large businesses in the last seven years”. – Jim Harra, HMRC’s director-general for business tax’s response after High Court action where HMRC admitted errors with Goldman Sachs tax affairs but the High Court confirmed that [...]

14/05/2013

Amazon said that there will be no delays for Amazon orders shipping from Germany today, as they company is hit with strike action. There are 2,000 workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Leipzig and another 3,300 workers at two warehouses in Bad Hersfeld which were impacted by strike action, although there are no figures as to [...]

14/05/2013

Glenn is one of Tamebay’s regular commenters and has been contributing to the site for many years. Today he revisits the topic of feedback and does it work as it should do? Amazon and eBay both present similar arguments that negative and neutral feedback should be viewed as a method of improving performance and that [...]

13/05/2013

Insurance companies are useful people when you’re careless enough to drop your mobile phone down the toilet! Yes a Tamebay reader (who shall remain anonymous unless they own up) did just that with their Samsung Galaxy S3. Insurance is pretty straight forward, you claim, they promised a like for like policy, they pay up and [...]

3/05/2013

Not being at home yesterday I decided to get my latest Amazon purchase delivered to an Amazon locker instead of a missed delivery. If you’ve not chosen to have a purchase from Amazon (or an FBA Seller) delivered to an Amazon locker here’s how it works:

30/04/2013

Brightpearl announced today that they are expanding their channel capabilities to add Amazon integration to their multi-channel solution. At the same time they also announced support forBigcommerce, ekmPowershop and Shopify. Brightpearl is a provider of cloud software for multichannel businesses providing inventory, orders, accounts and comms management in a central hub for all channels and [...]

24/04/2013

A petition is due to be delivered to Downing Street by independent bookshop owners Frances and Keith Smith, who run Kenilworth and Warwick bookshops. The petition calls on Amazon to “pay their fair share of tax in the UK” saying “The unfair advantage that your tax dodge gives you is endangering many UK high street [...]

22/04/2013

Amazon Studios have unveiled 14 TV pilots which will be available on Lovefilm in the UK and Germany, and on Amazon Instant Video in the US. Viewers will help decide which of 14 online TV pilots will continue to be made into a full series. The 14 comedies and kids’ series projects that have been [...]

12/04/2013

Amazon have produced a great series of YouTube videos showing how to prepare products for Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA), prior to shipping them to your FBA center. It’s important to follow Amazon’s requirements for your products to be received and processed swiftly and correctly. Some of the tips (e.g. packaging) are pretty obvious, although Amazon [...]