Your brain might be fried, your tabs are all chaos, and your coffee cup is empty, but don’t worry, we’ve boiled this week’s ecommerce madness down for you.
Brands—including multi-channel sellers tired of UPS rates and Amazon’s closed ecosystem—now have faster, cheaper, and more flexible nationwide delivery.
Keyword Climb Map: A 10k–40k brand stalls not from budgets, but from missing keyword layers that stabilize ACOS, fuel ranking, and turn discovery into predictable scale.
Heavier, Cheaper, Faster: Amazon’s Partner Carrier program now allows 44,000 lb FBA truckload shipments, giving sellers over 16 more pallet spots, fewer loads, and lower freight costs.
Sharper Service Scores: Amazon updates Customer Service Insights with clearer contact metrics and improved response-time accuracy for sellers.
Despite U.S. scrutiny, its Q4 Shop incentives—cash bonuses, ad credits, and creator perks—are so generous they could make even seasoned sellers do a double-take.
🍪 Quick bits
Extra seller earnings: $5K–$20K for daily GMV growth, plus up to $10K for climbing TikTok Shop Partner rankings.
Creators get love too: $1K–$10K per priority creator and $1K–$5K in monthly ad credits for shops hitting targets.
Added bonuses: Over $2K for staying top 15 all quarter, plus up to $1K in ad credits for partner agencies. 🤑
Black Friday chaos: $25K for creator-matching partners, $12K for high-performing partners, $2K for smaller ones.
TikTok-funded perks: Coupons, discounts, and flash sales powered a huge weekend; #TikTokShopBlackFriday hit 4B+ views, with a third of purchases going to SMBs. 🫶🏻
💬 SellerBites’ take
These Q4 payouts are one of those rare moments when a platform’s desperation directly fills your holiday coffers. TikTok bankrolls your sales, you scale your business, and everyone pretends they planned it this way.
For sellers willing to play along, it’s a win-win… until the next curveball hits.
BLACK MARKET
5K+ products seized in Amazon's tax probe
Amazon just earned a new nickname: the “Trojan horse”—and not the fun kind.
Raids on its Cividate al Piano logistics hub and Milan HQ uncovered thousands of China-based products allegedly entering Italy without customs duties.
🍪 Quick bits
5,000+ products seized: Toys, phone cases, air fryers, pens, scissors, and other low-cost China imports flagged for tax issues.
HQ equipment confiscated: IT hardware from Amazon’s Milan office taken as part of the customs-fraud probe. 🥷🏻
Manager under review: Logistics lead overseeing internal goods movement is now being investigated.
€1.2B case connection: Ties to a prior billion-euro tax-evasion inquiry involving China-linked sellers.
EU prosecutors looped in: Germany, France, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, and Ireland are all involved.
EU regulators are cracking down on non-EU imports, marketplaces, and anyone handling those supply chains. If this escalates, expect stricter checks, slower customs flows, and less patience for undervalued shipments.
The real fallout might not hit Amazon, it could hit the sellers relying on these loopholes.
Author : SellerBites
Faith began working on SellerBites in 2021, a weekly newsletter that provides sellers with the latest news and updates in FBA. With first-hand experience in managing various seller and vendor accounts, she understands what sellers face on this platform. Her background led to the conception of SellerBites, which main goal is to help people become better, more informed entrepreneurs in the Amazon marketplace.
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