Been selling Nike for 2 years now need to close amazon seller account
I was approved to sell Nike 2 years ago. I have been selling only Nike products with no account issues for 2 years. Recently received request to re apply to keep selling Nike. I applied providing the invoices they requested from the same supplier that Ive had for 2 years and was denied in 3 seconds. I have about 5 days before they remove all my inventory from marketplace. The invoices are legit and even from Nike directly. Makes no sense. Small business will have to close. No one is reviewing the selling applications.
Been selling Nike for 2 years now need to close amazon seller account
I was approved to sell Nike 2 years ago. I have been selling only Nike products with no account issues for 2 years. Recently received request to re apply to keep selling Nike. I applied providing the invoices they requested from the same supplier that Ive had for 2 years and was denied in 3 seconds. I have about 5 days before they remove all my inventory from marketplace. The invoices are legit and even from Nike directly. Makes no sense. Small business will have to close. No one is reviewing the selling applications.
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Seller_OvL8C4BJWiuS9
You are lucky you lasted this long-Nike has prohibited 3rd party sales on Amazon for a few years now. Your invoices are most likely not from Nike, at least not the brand, maybe from the website or store you purchased from. Whatever you are providing doesn't make the cut any longer.
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
When you say "from Nike directly", do you mean that you contacted Nike's corporate office, established a wholesale account (providing your business license and tax ID numbers), met MOQ, and bought with authorization from Nike to sell their products on Amazon?
Or do you mean that you went to Nike's public facing RETAIL site and purchased there, ignoring the part of the Terms that states that all purchases are for "Personal Use Only" and "Not for resale"?
Considering that it's only been quite recently that Nike has started to soften their stance of not allowing ANY authorized sellers to sell on the internet on anything other than their own website, it's amazing that you didn't get suspended when you started 2 years ago.
Seller_r8xbDFHOUgZc3
I had immediate declined messages as well. So far been declined 3 times within minutes. Bots are set to decline all Nike it appears. I’ve been selling Nike for about 6 yrs with zero issues. So upset about this.
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
You should be happy that you got away with it for so long, rather than being upset that you finally got caught.
Seller_Ha6JyVvDK6Ybs
It is BOT decline programed by amazon to stop sales that Amazon does not want. They make it appear like you can so called APPLY which is for appearance only so it doesn't look like they are directly harming business for the brand eliminating competition from site.
Seller_nucElsSFzuvBP
It happened the same to me, I have called several times, nobody gave you a real answer, emailed several times no answers. Only automated replies, it's really not the right way to do it, if the don't want us to sell more it would be to be said instead of playing games. If someone figure it out, let me know please. I'm in the same boat.
Seller_5NHzZiTRQ068g
I had this same issue with some of my products. After jumping through so many hoops I just gave up. It's not worth it to sell on Amazon anymore.
Seller_s7F7fMBDtix0d
Many brands are doing that now. Universal has just banned most 3rd party sellers from selling their movies and music. Of course people like Half Price books which somehow has an agreement with Amazon to let them sell ANYTHING on the site, can still sell them. I can walk into a Half Price bookstore and pull bootleg items off their shelf left and right. Their minimum wage employees cannot tell the difference. Those bootlegs are being sold by them here on Amazon too, but they seem not to care.
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
Nike stores are RETAIL. And your receipt specifies that all purchase are for personal use and 'NOT FOR RESALE'.
If it's a legit wholesale purchase, there is no sales tax; is that reflected on your receipt (note that in some states, there is no sales tax on shoes, so this is not an iron-clad verification).
Also, Kohls is a RETAIL source, not a wholesaler.
While this is quite likely true, seeing as Nike has in the past stated that they allow NO 3P sellers on sites like Amazon, you have no way of knowing if another seller is authorized to sell Nike products. They may be authorized, or more likely, have not yet been swept up in the bots catching unauthorized sellers. This defense is like telling the trooper who pulled you for speeding that other cars were just as fast; bottom line, you're the one he caught this time.
A legit question. In at least some cases, it's sellers who come up with ways to circumvent the system; then others glom on. But I'll not disagree that Amazon could be more proactive in stopping rule breakers. But bottom line is that if you violate the rules, you will (eventually) get caught.
I'll just point out that, at least in the past, Nike has allowed NO ONE to sell on Amazon, even the big sellers that are authorized to sell their products both in store on on their websites (such as Di*k's Sporting Goods). There are no "big sellers" of Nike authorized on Amazon.
Seller_YBfUTeoG971hG
A little like saying when the police finally arrest you for robbing a bank "But I robbed this bank 3 times before and you didn't catch me!"
But at the same time, the Amazon "police" should be catching these things earlier.
