A related article on Amazon category restrictions:
Quote:This may be a good place to remind readers that Amazon retains tight control even in "open" categories: for example, each year, Amazon.com restricts third-party sales in the Toys and Games category to pre-approved sellers during the holiday shopping season.
And another caveat: during the ChannelAdvisor conference last year, an analyst warned sellers of the dangers of listing on a marketplace that could turn around and compete with them, specifically pointing to Amazon.com...
full article:
http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blo...69425.html
A related article on selling on Amazon.com:
Quote:In today's issue, we bring you Amazon's answers to questions we commonly hear from online sellers who are considering - or are already - selling on "the river." Questions range from category restrictions to trust-and-safety concerns...
Quote:Q: There is rumor that Amazon may move Pro Merchants to the Merchants@ program. Is that true, and what exactly would that mean for Pro Merchants?
A: Our early adoption program for FBA has entailed a number of sellers being moved to the M@ program. The M@ program is a scaled and proven technology already used by some of the largest merchants on Amazon selling in non-media product categories. We will be shortly discontinuing this process as we will be able to offer FBA directly to sellers in their Marketplace Seller Account. We plan to offer the most compelling features we've developed for the M@ program to Marketplace Pro Merchants such that there will be no difference between the two.....
full article:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y208...bu0217/s02