I noticed a few months ago that Amazon started providing me a sales report. "In March, your ordered product sales were $33.3K (-23.7K or -42% YoY). Units sold showed a similar declining trend with 8,515 units (-20% YoY). Average selling price decreased to $3.91 (-$1.46 vs March 2024). Traffic came in at 78.3K page views (-8% YoY), showing a relatively smaller decline compared to sales and units. Your feature offer percentage continued to show strength at 99.54% (+282 bps YoY). Overall business insights: Your store has been experiencing a consistent decline in performance since mid-2024, with sales and units dropping more significantly than traffic, suggesting potential issues with conversion or competitive positioning, despite maintaining strong feature offer percentage."

Part of this decline was because we stopped using FBA. FBA has really gone down hill in the last few years. When they claimed that we sent 3 empty boxes, despite my having the UPS receipt, showing the actual weight, we decided it was time to leave FBA. It has been over a year now and we are still getting packs of seeds returned.

If I do not know this information then I should not be selling on Amazon. As far as being competitive -- I cannot compete with overseas countries (we sell seeds and I know Amazon said it would not sell any more from companies overseas but they did a work around and are selling on Amazon) (even Burpee now grows, packs and ships its products from India but they are all over the seed category,)

One company is selling a package of 35000 seeds, all individually labeled with a booklet filled with directions and a cheesy garden tool set for about $29. Just the individual labeling would cost me $29. I tried to put the set I have closest to this on Amazon. My set sells for $139 and that is with about a 10% markup. Amazon said my price was too high. Wanted me to list it at $29.

Use to be you had to put where your product was actually made. Now they just use a US address and claim it is made in the USA when it is not.

And the reviews number in the thousands for a product that has been only selling for a year or less. The listing even claimed 1,000 sold last month. I will not bore you with details on why I think these are fake.

Can't be done, your say. Then why am I always getting emails saying that for a fee, they will leave me good product reviews on Amazon??

Maybe the tariffs will help. I just want an even playing field.

I also use Amazon advertising. I am sure that some one, on Amazon's side or a competitor, clicks on my products, burning up my ad funds. I have asked Amazon for an IP report, which would be a good way to tell if someone is just sitting and clicking on the ads. I have my funds set to 10 cents a click. I want you to earn it if you are going to be unethical and click when you have no intention of buying.

Instead of wasting their time with this, why don't they assign someone to help me set up A+ content. I have tried but it is all foreign to me.

That is all I have to say about that. (who said this)