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Beginning around this time, sellers will notice a welcome influx in sales.

1. Have enough stock starting Black Friday, until the end of January - Be prepared for Cyber Weekend, Christmas & January sales. Make sure your stock can cover this period. Some sellers may triple there business or more over this time.
2. Prepare your stock in good time - Suppliers, factories and warehouses are going to have delays over this period. Shipping with couriers can be lengthy and a little more problematic. Plan carefully. Try to analyze last year's sales or your 3-month preceding sales and potentially triple these as a forecast, depending on your niche. You can use Amazon reports to help you do this. 
3. Carefully watch sales and restock normally slow-selling products selling fast - Watch out for slow-moving products that become big sellers over the Q4 period. When people are buying gifts they may be entirely different from purchases they …

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What to do when you’re going round in circles with Amazon Seller Support & Seller Performance

As an Amazon Seller, it won’t be long before you have your first brush with Seller Support or the more ominous Seller Performance. Seller Support is the customer service team helping to keep Amazon Sellers on track in Amazon Seller Central. The problem is they are often misinformed, have poor communication skills or even a poor grasp of the English language. Think as Seller Performance as the so-called Police of Sellers on the Amazon platform. The problem is that they can turn from Police into the Gestapo. 

Seller Support usually has impressively quick response times. These are often within 4 hours if you remember to mark your query as urgent (if available). If your query is not urgent, it is still a good idea to tick this box. As often by ticking it means you get …

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Amazon Repricing Updates May/June 2019

Another busy month of development propels Seller Republic to the forefront of Repricing. Combining continued ease of use with advanced features, set us apart from the competition. 

A host of product enhancements includes:

• Improved Backordered product support
• Usability and Functionality enhancements
• Analytics and Reporting including CSV and PDF downloads.
• Repricing Video Tutorials and Support. 

Backordered Products: Inactive and backordered product support is now improved. Not only are we able to reprice more backordered products during Amazon reconciling. We also now show notifications to explain a products current status on Amazon. This is particularly useful for not only newly restocked products but also to identify restricted or removed products by Amazon, so that you can quickly address issues.

Usability and Functionality enhancements: To maintain our ease of use whilst adding advanced features we have slimmed down the 'Add Strategy' page so that the advanced …

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Amazon’s Automated Repricer: Why you shouldn't use it.

In 2016, Amazon released its own automated inventory repricing tool dubbed “Automated pricing” which was available and free for all sellers with a professional account. I am guessing Amazon saw how much its third-party sellers relied on external repricing tools. If you are reading this then I am assuming you are familiar with what a Repricer is and does but if not, a Repricer uses rules or algorithms to automatically change prices based on inputs that you set. It can reprice a listing on Amazon up or down depending on the competitor's price. If you are not familiar with Amazon with Amazon's automated Repricer you can watch this Youtube video from Amazon here

Reason Amazon launched its Automated Repricer

There is no doubt Amazon puts its customer, be it its third-party sellers or, the buyers who constantly or seasonally buy on Amazon …

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Amazon Repricing Updates March 2019

Seller Republic has had a busy month of development. Following on from our recent updates, that increased listings count up to 25000 on our standard account plans. 

We are pleased to release a host of new features. These include a generic behind the scenes system update that will ensure Seller Republic remains at the forefront of the Repricing industry for years to come. Additional updates continue to incorporate Seller Republic's simplicity, whilst adding important features for current customers and to attract new customers. Major enhancements include a focus on non-new product listings.

Condition Repricing 

Seller Republic now has the ability to Reprice against differing condition types. This is particularly useful for sellers selling non-new product types. The system is programmed to automatically Reprice like for like i.e. new for new and used for used etc. With our new advanced options in one click, users can …

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The promising land of online selling and buying

To celebrate the launch of www.sellerbayrepublic.com we have decided run an eBay post series. Thewhere first of which is targeting new sellers specifically to eBay. eBay is the 2nd biggest marketplace and online retailer after Amazon globally, thus a must for sellers online.

So you have decided to take your work life into your hands and become your own demanding boss. And what better place to start your entrepreneurial adventure than online? Because we all know that people love spending money. And, in an always-on society, shopping online has become much more convenient than hitting the high street. And there are good reasons behind this tendency: exclusive sales and offers for online buyers, a wider range of products, or the possibility to make educated decisions by comparing prices. Making an online purchase is as easy as touching a button, no matter …

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BigCommerce has recently released the '2018 Omnichannel Buying Report'

In an attempt to exhaustively analyze the role of online and offline channels in a highly competitive Australian e-commerce space, BigCommerce surveyed the online and offline buying habits of over 3000 Australian digital consumers. The results of the study show that Australian consumers spend $1 out of $4 of their monthly discretionary income online.

Back in November 2017, Amazon entered the Australian marketplace and started an aggressive marketing campaign with a clear goal in mind: dethrone eBay. Despite Amazon's efforts, the study shows that eBay practically doubled Amazon's figures. When asked about their past six months purchases, 63% of respondents reported an eBay purchase, while only 24% of the respondents have used Amazon's services.

The study also highlights the fact that, at a global level, Australian consumers spend online approx. 26% of their discretionary income, which is 5% below the global …

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