Once again I want to apologize for the delays and technical issues, and state of the blog in general over the past week or so. It’s been crazy around here, and I appreciate your patience. I’ve actually got a post for you today, just a quick one to let you know I haven’t completely abandoned you.
It’s time to talk once more about the possible pitfalls and perils of selling on Amazon.
Admittedly, selling on Amazon can be time consuming and even frustrating. If you are a casual seller with a few books rather than a professional you might be better off figuring out how to sell your books online the easy way.
I know we’ve covered this before in various ways, but this time I’m not talking about myself. There is a colleague of mine, another bookseller who’s about a quarter my size. He sells around a couple hundred books a day.
At least he did, until he recently got his account suspended by Amazon.
That’s right, it happened. The thing we all dread – suspension. He told me that he was advised in the morning that he needed to get the situation rectified, and by that same evening his account had been suspended.
He knows why it happened. He simply hadn’t been doing what he was supposed to be doing. He had been shipping books late, he didn’t have good customer service, and he didn’t reply customer inquiries in anything approaching a timely manner, if at all. Amazon, of course, doesn’t take too kindly to (more…)