Why Don't OzBargain Allow Store Owners to Post Amazon Deals?

AssociatedLmattsnowface @ Queensland Quintessentials on 28/05/2023 - 19:31
Last edited 28/05/2023 - 22:40 by 1 other user

Hey Team,

I've been a long fan of OzB and just hoping someone can explain something to me.

I'm run a store on Amazon (Queensland Quintessentials) and I wanted to run a deal for the OzB group. Every now and again I run a deal down to the base cost of the product for a couple of days. I tried to run this sale again, but the OzB site won't let me run the deal as I'm associated with the store? Presumably this is a change from OzB's previous policy; my question is that I'm wondering why, or how this helps? Everything the site does is to protect us as the community, which is fair enough, but can I ask why this particular policy has changed? I don't off an 'at cost' deal anywhere else, and so I fail to see why this would be an unhelpful or spammy offer to the group?

Thanks all,

Matty.

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  • Twix on 28/05/2023 - 19:34
    +2

    Read the comments from hamza23 here.

    • Stopback on 28/05/2023 - 20:02
      +1

      indefinitely ban associated posts for 3rd party sellers on Amazon Australia.

      We had seen a decline in the number of associated 3rd party seller deals on Amazon Australia, due to our ban of new overseas sellers, an increase in the feedback requirement to post and our automated performance based bans. However, we have also seen a reduction in quality/vote average of the overall deals, which has lead to this decision.

      I don't

  • AustriaBargain on 28/05/2023 - 19:39
    -7

    If you have truly good deals I'd ask a mod if an exception can be made. The deals would have to be very good though and in high quantities.

    • Twix on 28/05/2023 - 19:41
      +7

      No exceptions.

      • AustriaBargain on 28/05/2023 - 19:52

        Well I guess he could set up a store on Shopify, if his stock is all inventoried by Amazon he could order 300 of the product himself, then sell them on the Shopify store and just increase the price of each item by the average of the fees from Shopify and the extra postage he'll pay.

        • CodeXD on 28/05/2023 - 20:34
          +2

          sounds like business with extra steps

  • CodeXD on 28/05/2023 - 19:43
    +12

    Chuck them in here

    Amazon Australia: Sellers/Reps Post Your Deals Here

  • mskeggs on 28/05/2023 - 19:59
    +5

    If there good deal in the rep thread, a user will post it.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 28/05/2023 - 20:40
      +1

      Paging save50 and ismellpennies

    • AustriaBargain on 28/05/2023 - 22:07
      +1

      Wouldn't they risk being accused of being a sock puppet and getting a permaban?

      • Clear on 28/05/2023 - 22:53
        +1

        If there good deal in the rep thread, a user will post it.

        It's not a honeypot. If OP asked them to post that's a different story.

        • AustriaBargain on 28/05/2023 - 23:34
          -1

          Maybe it should be more explicitly pointed out that deals posted to that thread that are judged to be exceptional will likely be posted to the main deal section. So there is a clear path to getting your Amazon store deals on the front page, rather than implying it's impossible.

  • Cheaplikethebird on 28/05/2023 - 20:02
    +2

    The amount of dropshipper spam that would get posted otherwise…

  • iguana on 28/05/2023 - 20:33
    -6

    You're too honest. You should have just posted the deal (not ticked the box) and if it was successful then you could have continued. Now that you've outed yourself - you're stuffed now.

    • CodeXD on 28/05/2023 - 20:37
      +7

      OP already has a long history of posting for their store and sockpuppeting is a negative stain for a company.

  • Savas on 28/05/2023 - 20:48
    +2

    idk… seems kind of scammy.. also i don't use nail clippers.

  • pegaxs on 28/05/2023 - 22:51
    +6

    Because ya’ll ruined it by spamming crap. Never ending crap. And then there were the fake prices and fake discounts. And did I mention the crap? Plastic crap every second post. 3000 posts for massage guns and 10,000 posts for essential oil diffusers… it was a nightmare to login to OzBargain and be assaulted by nothing but 40 Amazon rep posts in a row all selling garbage $2 items…

  • Associatedmattsnowface @ Queensland Quintessentials on 29/05/2023 - 05:54
    +5

    Thanks for all your guys' time in replying and thoughts. I'm a true user of deals on the OzB site anyway, so I'm a fan of it not being bogged down in spam; so that's fair enough.

    I'll post my deals on that thread - thanks for the link.

    M.

  • Fergy1987 on 29/05/2023 - 09:12
    +1

    OzBargain - not OzFreeAdvertising.

    • jellykingdom on 29/05/2023 - 09:42
      +3

      OP still managed to drop his company name into his question i notice

  • spackbace on 29/05/2023 - 13:57
    +1

    Your last 6 deal posts didn't even front page, and you wonder why the site cracked down…?

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