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Amazon 1P vs 3P: Vendor Central vs Seller Central, Compared (2026)

Amazon 1P means you sell your products to Amazon at wholesale and Amazon resells them; Amazon 3P means you sell through Amazon directly to the shopper and Amazon takes a commission. 1P is run from Vendor Central, 3P from Seller Central. The practical difference comes down to one question: after the handoff, who sets the retail price, owns the stock, and answers the customer? In 1P the answer is Amazon on all three. In 3P it is you. ...

July 29, 2026 · 11 min · 2231 words · AMZBase
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Amazon DSP Ads Explained: What It Is, How It Differs From Sponsored Ads, and Who It Actually Fits

Amazon DSP is Amazon’s demand-side platform — a programmatic ad buying tool that places display, video, audio, and Streaming TV ads at chosen audiences both on Amazon and across third-party sites and apps. It is a separate product from Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, and for most sellers the decisive difference is the entry barrier: Sponsored Ads have no minimum spend, while Amazon’s own pages put a $50,000 minimum on managed-service Amazon DSP and, for Streaming TV specifically, a $10,000 recommended campaign minimum on self-service DSP packages. ...

July 29, 2026 · 11 min · 2276 words · AMZBase
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Amazon Gated Categories & Ungating (2026): How to Check If You're Gated and Get Approved

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This does not affect our rankings or conclusions. There is exactly one authoritative way to know whether you are ungated on Amazon: search the product in Add a Product inside your own Seller Central and read the button. Amazon’s help page lists three status indicators — "Not Available": Product can’t be listed; "Sell this product": No approval needed; "Apply to sell": Approval required (Categories and products that require approval, checked 2026-07-29). No third-party tool, list, or article can answer this for you, because gating is resolved against your account, not against the catalog. ...

July 29, 2026 · 11 min · 2280 words · AMZBase
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Amazon Price Check: The Best Price-Tracking Tools and How to Read Price History (2026)

An Amazon price check is not the number on the product page. It is that number compared against the same ASIN’s own price history — the only way to tell a real discount from a struck-through reference price. Two free browser tools cover almost every case: Keepa and CamelCamelCamel (via its Camelizer extension). Everything beyond them is either a paid data subscription for bulk work or a price-history feature inside a seller suite. ...

July 29, 2026 · 11 min · 2315 words · AMZBase
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How to Remove Seller Feedback on Amazon: The Three Cases Amazon Deletes (2026)

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This does not affect our rankings or conclusions. Before anything else: seller feedback is not a product review. Two separate systems, separate rules, separate removal paths — and confusing them is the most common reason a removal request comes back denied. The short answer on how to remove seller feedback on Amazon: Amazon removes it in only three cases — the comment contains obscene or profane words, it contains seller-specific personally identifiable information, or the entire comment is a product review. Two further cases get a strike-through rather than a deletion. Everything else stays up, and your options are a public reply or a conversation with the buyer. This guide sources every case to Amazon’s own public statements (checked 2026-07-29). ...

July 29, 2026 · 11 min · 2292 words · AMZBase

Amazon Account Health Rating (AHR): Score Bands, What Deducts Points, and the Red-Line Checklist (2026)

The Amazon Account Health Rating (AHR) is a single number Amazon assigns your seller account to express how close it is to deactivation. Amazon describes it as “a snapshot of your account’s risk of deactivation based on compliance with Amazon policies. It’s a color-coded score, ranging from 0 to 1,000…” (sell.amazon.com, checked 2026-07-28). Higher is safer. The score moves when policy violations land against your account and when your customer service and shipping metrics drift past Amazon’s published targets. ...

July 28, 2026 · 11 min · 2316 words · AMZBase

Amazon FBA Size Tiers Explained (2026): Dimensions, Weight Limits, and Fee Impact

FBA size tiers are measurement categories Amazon assigns to a packaged unit from its unit weight, dimensions, and dimensional weight. Since January 15, 2026, the US store has eight: Small standard-size, Large standard-size, Small Bulky, Large Bulky, and four Extra-Large bands. The tier sets your fulfillment fee, storage rate, removal and disposal fees, and inbound placement fees — which is why a tenth of an inch can move a product between two fee schedules. ...

July 28, 2026 · 11 min · 2143 words · AMZBase

Amazon Sale Dates 2026: A Seller's Calendar of Prime Day, Big Deal Days, and BFCM

Two of Amazon’s 2026 sale dates are confirmed and already behind us: the Big Spring Sale ran March 25–31 and Prime Day ran June 23–26, its earliest start since 2021. The two events still ahead — Prime Big Deal Days and Black Friday Week / Cyber Monday — have no announced dates as of July 28, 2026. What Amazon has published is the thing that actually constrains you: the Q4 inbound deadlines, the first of which (AWD for Big Deal Days) falls on September 2, 2026. Plan against the deadlines, not the dates. ...

July 28, 2026 · 11 min · 2274 words · AMZBase

Amazon Shipping Cost Calculator: Freight-In, FBM Postage and MCF Tools Compared (2026)

There is no single Amazon shipping cost calculator, because “shipping” on Amazon means three unrelated cost lines: freight-in (factory to fulfillment center), FBM postage (your shelf to the buyer’s door), and MCF (Amazon fulfilling orders you sold somewhere else). Each has its own tools, and a tool built for one bucket cannot price the other two. Scope note. This guide covers the cost of moving boxes. It does not cover Amazon’s platform fees — referral, FBA fulfillment, storage. Those live in a separate comparison: Free FBA Fee Calculator: which one to trust, which scores Amazon’s official Revenue Calculator against the Helium 10, Jungle Scout, AMZScout and SellerApp equivalents. Use that page for platform fees, this one for freight and postage; together they cover landed cost. ...

July 28, 2026 · 11 min · 2267 words · AMZBase

VAT Threshold 2026: An Amazon Seller's Registration Map by Country

For most cross-border Amazon sellers, the honest answer to “what is the VAT threshold in 2026?” is there isn’t one for you. A registration threshold is a relief granted to businesses established in the country that sets it. If you are a US seller shipping into France, or a UK seller storing stock in a German fulfilment centre, the applicable threshold in that country is normally nil and registration falls due before the first taxable sale. The figures in the table below are real and officially sourced, but knowing which of the three thresholds applies to your setup matters more than any single number. ...

July 28, 2026 · 11 min · 2304 words · AMZBase

Amazon A-to-z Guarantee Claims: A Seller's Response Framework (2026)

An A-to-z Guarantee claim is a buyer asking Amazon to step in and refund an order sold by a third-party seller. One number decides what it costs you: an A-to-z Guarantee claim that isn’t denied counts as a defect in your Order Defect Rate (ODR), and your ODR target is under 1% of orders over a 60-day period (Amazon, sell.amazon.com, checked 2026-07-27). That is why “just refund it” is sometimes cheap and sometimes expensive: a refund issued before a claim is filed costs you the order, while a claim granted against you costs the order and a defect. ...

July 27, 2026 · 12 min · 2552 words · AMZBase
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Amazon Coupons vs Deals vs Price Discounts (2026): Real Costs and a Decision Matrix

Amazon Coupons vs Deals vs Price Discounts (2026) The short answer: coupons carry a redemption cost charged every time a shopper uses one, deals carry a cost to run plus a possible variable percentage of deal sales with a cap, and price discounts may carry a cost too — but Amazon publishes no public rate card for any of them. Every figure quoted on third-party blogs is a reconstruction, and those reconstructions contradict each other. The number that governs your P&L is the one Seller Central shows before you submit, so this guide is built around reading that screen correctly rather than around numbers nobody can source. ...

July 27, 2026 · 14 min · 2839 words · AMZBase