I have been selling on Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) for a few months now and love it. There was one major problem with the system though – if you set your store setting to “vacation” it would freeze not only your inventory that you fulfill, but also the FBA inventory. With FBA, Amazon ships your inventory for you – so why would you want your inventory frozen when your not responsible for filling it? The only way around this was to physically close the listings for every book that you fulfill by hand.
Good news – this month Amazon corrected the problem! Here is the quote from Amazon.com:
“Account Settings: FBA Listings Remain Active:
This month we launched a new feature that has been an ongoing request to keep FBA listings active while sellers took vacation or were unable to fulfill inventory for whatever reason. FBA sellers have wanted an easy way to remove their self-fulfilled listings from Amazon.com while keeping their listings fulfilled by Amazon active. Previously, it was necessary to manually deactivate and activate self-fulfilled listings if you were taking a vacation. The alternative was to remove all listings from Amazon.com using the Seller Account Listing Status.
Now, when you change your listing status from active to inactive (or “On Vacation”), the listings you fulfill yourself will be removed from Amazon.com; however, your listings fulfilled by Amazon will remain available for sale on Amazon.com and through Multi-Channel Fulfillment. When you are ready to resume fulfilling orders, you simply reactivate your listings.”
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