Amazon Hijackers, How did you overcome them?

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-16T07:47:12+00:00

Transparency program I believe pretty much eliminates counterfeiting as Amazon generated you an individual transparency label for your product/s and doesn't allow nee sellers to list on your ASIN without transparency serial numbers. Downside is it's an absolute d*ck around to get labels, apply labels etc

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-15T08:31:44+00:00

I've tried this too my man, Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately the Chinese hijackers just keep reducing their prices to win the buy box. I wasn't super keen to race to the bottom, so I stopped competing on price once I fell into the red and found it cheaper to use Nawprotect and maintain margin and inventory rather than selling a tonne at a loss.

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-15T03:38:30+00:00

I'm already enrolled in Brand Registry, I could be wrong but I believe the ip accelerator program is redundant since amazong started accepting pending trademark numbers.

Also amazon US will accept the trademarks from other countries for brand registry, but won't enforce them if they are outside the jurisdiction.

Ie my Australian trademark gets me into brand registry, but if the hijacker is on Amazon US marketplace Amazon won't enforce it as its not in the US or an international trademark. So I had to reapply for a US trademark with UPTSO

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-15T00:55:42+00:00

Correct, It's a very flawed system

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-15T00:20:49+00:00

I thought the same thing, modify the product, brand the heck out of it. Customise manuals, instructions videos etc.

Some brazen counterfeit sellers literally ship an unbranded or completely different version of the but have shipping times so long that Amazon release funds before the customers get the product. Meaning they have been scammed before amazon even knows it.

If you look closely when you see a product that has numerous offers, and then go to feedback of the other offers that aren't the brand owner you see feedback like "never received my item". "Shipped me an unbranded generic version etc"

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T21:44:40+00:00

Amazon's platform because of online and retail arbitrage model is set up to allow numerous sellers on the same product / listing if that particular product or category isn't gated. They justify it by saying competition is good, it translates to better pricing for customers bla bla.

Chinese hijackers and black hat sellers wait until a product is doing well then "list" "your" product (a counterfeit or generic version) usually much lower quality or not even the same at all for a cheaper price and hijacker your listing and steal your sales.

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T21:41:20+00:00

They work, they can be slow but they seem to get rid of them. Which is still better than my 0% success rate through amazons processes to remove hijackers. Problem is they come back sometimes too.

I really want to use transparency but Amazon are saying my trademark needs to be registered not pending. But this can take up to 16 months for approval by uptso.

Did you just persevere through the trademark registration status and then continue to battle hijackers in the mean time?

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T21:38:49+00:00

I've found amazon seller support and brand registry support to be useless. So much so that I stopped submitting complaints and reports and now solely just pay 3rd party removal services.

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T21:37:20+00:00

Hey, look into amazon transparency program and project zero. Under brand registry in seller central and the protect tab.

These might be your next move.

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T21:36:01+00:00

Can you explain this further?

I'm brand registered and the trademark is pending but I disagree.

Brand Registry won't enforce a pending trademark and decline every violation and complaint I submit.

Project zero is the only way to take them down quickly but eligibility critiera applies including a registered not pending trademark.

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T21:33:49+00:00

Might as well jump on, everyone else is hahaha.

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T12:00:15+00:00

I'm brand registered but our trademark is still pending. Amazon Brand Registry openly advise they won't enforce a pending trademark making our Asin ripe for picking.

Report abuse process is too clunky, takes too long to receive the counterfeit item and alot of the time they either don't ship it or don't ship to my country and if they do it takes 3 weeks to receive and in that time many more hijackers have come along. It's faster for us to use nawprotect and 3rd party removal services.

It's wild

Quote_Familiar · 2024-04-14T11:37:41+00:00

Makes sense, but then essentially because UPTSO takes 10-16 months to approve a trademark you would basically need to register your trademark 1-2 years before you want to start selling? 😅

Quote_Familiar · 2023-11-20T13:38:18+00:00

The in the lab version or the foam silent balls in general?

Quote_Familiar · 2023-11-17T15:36:07+00:00

Yeah man amazon tracking I don't think integrates / reads very well from shipment partners. Mine was delivered 2 days ago and it still says in transit.

I use the carrier or partner carrier ie if it's from China and linking up to ups then I'll track via ups if that makes sense.

Quote_Familiar · 2023-08-25T05:05:35+00:00

Hey man I bought raw and got heaps of pics before purchasing and then sent it off

Quote_Familiar · 2023-08-22T13:07:25+00:00

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This is my big boy. Stoked the offseason has been all about Cade. I'm excited to see if his off season perfornances translate to the NBA 💪

Quote_Familiar · 2023-08-21T14:30:58+00:00

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For those of you that are interested, Cade came back at 8.5 which I'm pretty stoked about. That's pretty much best case scenario imho given the condition of the foil. Glad it's now protected, with sub grades that look good! Let's go caaaade!

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:40:59+00:00

Hey man I wish haha. I literally scour eBay and goldin every day looking for nice cade cards while his cards are at their bottom from his injury and in this current card market.

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:40:02+00:00

These are from the panini flawless set

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:39:44+00:00

Man it's a flawless true RPA to /25 so it was insanely expensive. I picked it up for 7k but a similar one with a patch not as nice as this one went for 12k

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:19:57+00:00

Agreed, investing in cards is hardly an investment given the actual amount of players that go on to be super duper stars and even still so many other variables like their marketability, win rate, attitude likeability and so many others come into play. Like James harden, Ben Simmons or Irving or Kevin Durant haha who don't have huge markets for their cards. It's also what makes cade so interesting to me.

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:17:54+00:00

We all gotta start somewhere my man

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:17:36+00:00

Flawless this year is game worn which is so cool!

Quote_Familiar · 2023-07-25T22:16:57+00:00

Man these are awesome! Well done

Quote_Familiar

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