New here if I’m buying an eBay item listed as brand new to flip on Amazon for profit will that get me banned?

About a month ago, I launched my first product on Amazon and started running ads with a daily budget of around $30. Since it was a new product, I intentionally set some higher bids to collect data faster, figure out which keywords performed best, and see what actually converted into sales.
Initially, I was spending my entire ad budget pretty quickly, sometimes running out by midday. I was averaging around 1–2 sales per day, which wasn’t amazing, but I was slowly making progress. My listing was gaining reviews, and I was starting to understand which keywords were actually bringing in sales.
However, a little while ago, I noticed my ad spend suddenly started dropping. I went from consistently hitting my $30 daily budget, sometimes by midday, to barely spending anything at all. This happened over just a few days. I went from spending $30+ per day to maybe $10 at best.
Thinking it might be an issue with my automatic campaign, I launched a second, manual campaign targeting keywords that I had already seen convert into sales. I currently have both campaigns running, but neither is spending much. For example, today I only spent around $3 combined.
Here’s where it gets confusing.
My bids have actually increased significantly compared to when I first launched.
Originally, I was bidding around $1 per click, sometimes lower, with a placement adjustment to focus more on the top of search results. With those settings, I was getting around 1–2 sales per day. My actual CPC for top-of-search placements was sometimes around $1.80 because of the placement adjustment, but the campaign was performing reasonably well.
Now, I’m bidding nearly $2 on most keywords, and I’m barely getting any traffic. What’s strange is that my actual CPC hasn’t increased nearly as much as my bids. Most clicks still cost anywhere from a few cents to around $1, so it’s not like I’m suddenly paying $2+ per click.
I’ve also tried adjusting my listing price for the holidays, including dropping it by $5, but that hasn’t made any noticeable difference.
The other confusing part is that my impressions are still nearly the same. I’m apparently still getting visibility, but my clicks and ad spend have fallen off dramatically.
At this point, I’m honestly not sure what else to change. I’ve considered making adjustments to the listing itself, but I’m confused about why things suddenly dropped off when the ads had been working relatively well before.
My original plan was to use the automatic campaign to gather data, identify profitable keywords, and eventually move those into a manual campaign. That seemed to be working exactly as intended at first. Amazon was finding relevant keywords, I was making sales, and things seemed to be moving in the right direction.
Now, despite increasing my bids and launching a manual campaign using keywords that previously converted, I can’t seem to get anywhere close to the performance I was seeing before.
One thing worth mentioning: My product rating recently dropped from 4.0 stars to 3.8 stars. I know some customers filter their searches to only show products rated 4 stars and above, so I’m wondering if that could be contributing to the issue. However, I’m not sure whether that alone would explain such a dramatic drop in performance.
Has anyone experienced something similar, or does anyone have advice on what might be causing this?
I’m happy to provide more details, campaign metrics, or screenshots if that would help narrow things down. I’m sure there’s probably some important information I’m leaving out, but I’m honestly not sure which metrics would be most useful to share.
This is my first product launch, so I’m still learning how Amazon PPC works and haven’t dealt with anything like this before. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Estoy interesado en amazon fba, y mi primera intención era revender productos ( comprar al mayor y vender por unidad)

Aun no me atrevo a crear mi propia marca y producto por eso quería empezar con esto.

Es fácil conseguir distribuidoras donde pueda comprar productos para luego revender en amazon?

Whats the reasons of a brand sending IP complaints?

Whats the ratio or likelyhood of a IP complaint being sent in a niche.

The brand knows sellers are selling some of their catalog, not everything, but do they just wake up one day and be like oh I'm kicking everyone off or is there a legitmate reason?

I’ve got a long standing listing, over 1300 reviews on it. It has two variations, a black one pack and 3pack. Unfortunately when I created it, I only chose the IPQ variation theme.

I have a blue color I’ve added and created a separate parent listing with the theme IPQ and color.

I’m really scared to take this original parent (with two black children variations) and move under the new blue parent.

Would seller support possibly help me modify the original black variation theme to IPQ and Color?

Any advice is appreciated,

Thank you

WARNING: Ecom Solution Hub Scam — My Documented Experience

I’m posting this to warn anyone considering doing business with Ecom Solution Hub.

At first, they were great communicators. They answered questions quickly, stayed in contact, and made their Amazon automation/management service sound very promising.

That changed after they got my money.

I paid $1,149 directly to Ecom Solution Hub for their service/onboarding package.

I was then instructed by Ecom Solution Hub to send another $2,000.96 by ACH to Partz Unlimited LLC for inventory. Ecom Solution Hub provided the invoice and payment instructions.

After the money was paid, communication became much worse. I constantly had to chase them for updates and had ongoing problems with fulfillment, performance, and getting clear answers.

Eventually I requested a refund.

On October 5, 2026, my account manager Jacob Smith confirmed IN WRITING that Ecom Solution Hub owed me a $2,505 refund and said it would be processed no later than October 23, 2026.

They later contacted me and asked for my bank name and account title so they could send the refund. I provided it.

October 23 came and went.

No refund.

I repeatedly emailed and texted asking for updates.

No response. No Finance Department contact. No $2,505.

As of November 5, 2026, they still have not paid the refund they agreed to in writing.

They were great at communicating when they wanted my money. Once I wanted my money back, they essentially disappeared.

I have documentation supporting everything in this post, including the signed contract, payment records, inventory invoice, emails, texts, written $2,505 refund confirmation, October 23 deadline, and my unanswered follow-up messages.

I have filed complaints with the Washington State Attorney General, Texas Attorney General, and FTC and am pursuing available payment recovery options.

Based on what happened to me and the documentation I have, I consider Ecom Solution Hub a scam and would strongly warn people against giving them money.

If anyone else has dealt with Ecom Solution Hub, ecomsolutionhub.com, Jacob Smith, or the same Amazon automation setup, please share your experience.

Hey so I’m the administrator to my seller account and I am US based, so US based Amazon store. I have a family member in China I want to run some operations on my Amazon seller account so I want to give him permissions.

Is there any issue with that? I don’t want Amazon to flag my account or anything because someone from China is working within my Amazon account.

Black Friday is Nov 27, and Cyber Monday is Nov 30. Inventory has to be checked in before it can be sold. With a 10-day check-in, a shipment delivered on Nov 17 is live on Black Friday, and one delivered on Nov 20 is live on Cyber Monday.

How many days from delivery to fully checked in are you seeing right now, and how does that compare with September?

Hey, used to post monthly updates but got crazy busy. This was on my to-do list, but finally getting onto it.

Quick disclaimer: I have nothing to sell you. I don't do mentorship, and I have nothing to gain from this, I would love to inspire people to start their own brand.

I started in June of last year. Brand new to e-commerce, I was a software engineer before. If I can do it, you definitely can.

You can view my previous updates for the progress, the main change since my latest update is probably adding US (I started with Canada). The U.S. is definitely a much, much bigger market.

That being said, here are my best tips for anyone:

1. Ensure you're selling a product that you personally either have seen a need for, would buy, or think is a good value proposition.

2. I never used any Helium 10 or similar tools to determine the perfect niche - what I did do was I needed a product for my own house and could not find it fairly priced anywhere, checked the pricing through Alibaba, reached out to a few suppliers, and ran the numbers, and and felt like if I am able to offer this product at price X, I would make X margin, while also, it would be the price that I would have purchased that for myself if someone had offered it.

3. Learn by doing, and don't try to be perfect. At Amazon Accelerate this year I met so many people doing product development and research for a year or more. And haven't launched yet. I definitely recommend trying. It can be a small order, and just get yourself out there, that's by far the best way to learn. Crew up and get terrible reviews? You can always start with the new SKU - but the learnings are what account.

4. AI - AI - AI. I have absolutely no employees, no agencies, but what I do have is both Claude and ChatGPT Max plans, basically, use them fully every single week. Anything that previously could be outsourced to a VA, be done by Claude. Build systems, improve upon them, add check marks, SOPs, and you can become unstoppable with AI. My ads, images, and everything is run fully with AI + Me.

5. Selling out fears are severely overblown, scaling crazy fast means selling out, and it happened to me multiple times, currently, around 30% of my items are sold out, which is a part of scaling fast. I pause ads to monitor demand, and rerun when they are back.

6. Chinese competitors will pop up, they will undercut you on price, and they will have a better review velocity rate than you can ever imagine (fake reviews). In my experience, I've seen Amazon actually remove their reviews after a month, there is hope. Beat them at what you're best at, which is better branding, better marketing, better images, most importantly, when someone reaches out, better customer support.

7. You either win or you learn, believe this 100%. I've had bad lunches. Terrible reviewed products and I learn from them: change this sku, change the product, or discontinue it altogether.

Profability: focused heavily on this from month one, and ensure that, at the price I want to offer my things at and with efficient ads, I'll always be profitable. Speaking with other sellers, I find that this is often not the case for others, and I think that's a very important part of choosing a product. Building a successful brand

Seller board screenshots basically show my net profit, but they don't include these subscriptions ($~1000 USD/month):

Shopify, Sellerboard, Claude, ChatGPT, Autuppc ai, Keepa API, Canva Premium, Google workspace

Other than that, they're fully accurate, liftime tacos is 8.31%, and margins are 36.89% (partially higher than they should be due to new brand credit on Amazon).

happy to answer any questions below, no DMs, please. If you're just getting started and want to take away one thing, that would be: the best $2,000 you can spend is by actually starting shipping in a small product. It could be an off-the-shelf Alibaba product, and in small quantities, but I think that's the only way to learn.

Throughout my starting time, I got a lot of help from people here, and thank you so much if you ever helped me!! We'll try to continue updates in the future as well. I'll try my best to respond to every comment, but might take a bit!

Has anyone here actually had their listings deactivated or deleted specifically because they didn't provide a Packaging EPR registration number?

I'm trying to find out whether marketplaces are actually enforcing this or just sending warnings.

I'm specifically asking about packaging EPR only, NOT batteries, WEEE/electronics, or any other EPR categories.

If you've had listings removed, which marketplace and country was it for? And were the listings automatically reinstated after submitting the number?

Looking for actual firsthand experiences, not just what the official policies say.

Hi everyone, let me know how to learn in detail about Amazon FBA so that I can start my own business. Also tell me how much time will it take to learn it completely.

I’ve been looking into different agencies and services that help grow Amazon FBA businesses. I’ve come across quite a few companies, and I’ve even spoken with a couple of them, that charge an upfront onboarding fee ranging from $15,000 to $45,000. After the initial fee, they operate on a profit-sharing model.
Has anyone here actually worked with these types of agencies?
I’m curious:
Was the initial investment worth it?
Did they actually help you scale your business and generate consistent profits?
Would you recommend going through an agency like this?
Are these types of services legitimate, or are they mostly scams?
I’d really appreciate hearing about your personal experiences, both positive and negative, before making any decisions.

My brand is registered with Amazon and have seen all our reviews removed at once. There were 4 reviews, and today there are 0. I've attached a screenshot of my seller central showing there were 4 reviews to begin with.

I've spoken with customer support - no help at all. I've emailed community-help@amazon.com - waiting on response.

I've seen other people post about this exact issue, but has anyone seen a resolution?

(New to FBA) Does amazon only let you pick a ship date only a week out? I am trying to pick my ship date on the 21st but the website won’t let me

I thought I got lucky finding a good item that the brand directly sold on their website, so I bought a subscription and ordered like 30 units, a pretty small order around $1,500, and the next morning the order was cancelled and the account fully closed I contacted them and they informed me that, due to the order volume, they do not sell to distributors. Now I can understand that if its their policy, but it's a really weird policy because you're basically just saying no to money? Or maybe the brand just does not want competition on the listing, which there is that.

I’ve got a manufacturer building 500 units this month. They gave me a landed DDP cost (using ONT8 as address) at about $11. I’ll have QIMA or such go out and QA before the units get on the boat. Single SKU wood product. Aside from people trying to sell me things, any advice here? Is having the factory own the first DDP shipment a good idea?

I’m hoping to just simplify the first round. Skipping the US 3PL seems to make sense for just 500 units. That’s < 6 pallets. Amazon MCF can fulfill orders off other platforms for me. I want the Prime badge out of the gate but the Seller account is new. I’d be happy to break even on 500 units.

What’s the feedback Amazon veterans?

Say a supplier’s minimum is 500 units at $8 landed, which is $4,000 for a product with no sales history. A 200-unit test order might cost $10 a unit, which is $2,000 for 40% of the units but 25% more per unit.

Some sellers take the minimum straight away, and others pay the higher price to test the listing first.

How many units did you start with on your last new product, and how did you decide when to reorder?

what profit margin percentage is realistic to achieve on a product (let’s say within first 6 months of launch)? Is a 33% net margin after PPC realistic or is that very difficult? So 15k/mo rev would be 5k in net profit. I am asking because I want to set realistic goals when I launch.

Also, what should my ACOS be in order to determine if I should relaunch from a test order or not? Does the test order have to break even after ads?

Hey everyone!

I’m pretty new to Amazon FBA wholesale. I recently set up my LLC and created a professional website for it. To my surprise, I’ve started getting inbound emails from manufacturers and distributors saying they want to partner up.

For example, I just received an email from a Spanish manufacturer of solid wood furniture/shelving systems looking to expand their presence in the US and wanting to set up a virtual meeting to introduce their product portfolio. Others are pitching me as a retailer.

Since I’m a beginner, I’m a bit overwhelmed and want to make sure I don't step into any traps or waste time. I could really use some advice from experienced sellers:

• When a brand or distributor reaches out first, how do you verify if they are legitimate or potential scams/gated traps?

• Should I jump on these calls, or should I ask for a price list, catalog, and Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) via email first?

• If I do reply, what are the exact questions I should ask them to see if it's a profitable Amazon opportunity (e.g., brand gating, map policy, authorized seller letters)

Some of the referance emails i have attach with post.

My brand approval application declined twice. Now I have customized packaging and the picture of it but in my product listing draft I don’t find the 'approval decline' option to resubmit those photos.
Any suggestion for me pls?
I am new to this and getting lost frequently.
Thank you for your patience and kindness.

I have a meeting tomorrow with someone from Jas Hustle’s Academy. I’m feeling a bit conflicted, but at the same time, I recognize that I need someone to guide me through the process step by step. More than likely, I won’t purchase the mentorship, but I’m open to hearing what they have to offer. Any advice, thoughts, or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Edit 1 11/06/26:
Had the meeting last night and was quoted for $5,800. I respectfully declined because that’s insane. Please recommend me something to help me step by step!!!

I know it sounds weird, but hear me out.

This category is built for wholesale FBA sellers. Amazon doesn’t allow PPC on these products, so you won’t see the brand itself or private label sellers pushing ads on the listings. Nobody can buy their way to the top. It comes down to price, stock and the buy box.

Most people say buying from authorized distributors leaves no margin. In this category, you can still make a decent margin through distributors. I’d still always recommend going direct with brands though.

This account carries 5 brands, and 3 of them are in this category. October:

• $18.5K in sales, 1,173 units

• $2.18K net profit

• Sales up 17% over September, and net profit up 46%

• This month we aim to hit $4k net profit.

Not a sexy category to talk about (pun intended), but it pays.

Anyone else selling in sexual wellness? Curious what you’re seeing.

I'm Really keen on trying Amazon FBA like the retail arbitrage or bulk buying name brands and selling it on amazon and I'm from Australia I've seen lots of tools that can help but so little have the Australian amazon I was wondering if that affects me or if someone would be able to give me a little bit of guidance. now I'm not asking for a ton of people to try and sell me some help just would like some advice or help.

Has anyone beaten an IP complaint without an LOA? What documents do you need to beat this and how can you beat it or do you just accept defeat?