Selling Lego on Amazon.com

[airhanny]

What's scary the AWS outage was affecting my Ring Doorbell yesterday

[exciter1]

2 hours ago, airhanny said:

What's scary the AWS outage was affecting my Ring Doorbell yesterday

I heard this from multiple sources.

[Darth_Raichu]

On 10/19/2025 at 7:45 AM, vasp said:

This unfair pricing policy is getting ridiculous especially on retired sets. Amazon wants retail price or lower. wtf

I have been complaining about this to Amazon in every seller survey I answered. (for the bots to ignore ).  Amazon is killing their 3PS model. 

Lets see if they reverse this decision when the lawsuits from AWS outage start piling... LOL

[landphieran]

25 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

I have been complaining about this to Amazon in every seller survey I answered. (for the bots to ignore ).  Amazon is killing their 3PS model. 

Lets see if they reverse this decision when the lawsuits from AWS outage start piling... LOL

Unfortunately I don't see this getting any better. Amazon wants turnover. They are getting far more money by volume + fee's versus the small increments in pricing + storage cost.

The buy box logic/unfair pricing are the primary drivers that would make me quit selling. There are many risks/reasons not too, but not being able to move product due to a systemic purposeful policy implementation is a business killer. There are so many listings that are 20-30% less profitable due to the sticky price problem which makes the business model invalid. I had thousands of the Mario Cat suit and Fire suits. I was moving hundreds a month at 40-50 and then one day. All the listings were removed and the price was stuck at 15$. With everything else it's impossible to operate a business like this on Amazon without a free market. It's not like collectibles are required medical devices the policy is stupid.

[freakchem]

On 10/19/2025 at 11:37 PM, gmpirate said:

Maybe you can't just sell an account "al la carte" but you can certainly sell a business that sells on Amazon.  I'm exiting.  Hoping I can sell through by next holiday.

Is selling Lego on Amazon still gated? I remembered two years ago or so that there is no gating at all. 

[Darth_Raichu]

2 hours ago, landphieran said:

Unfortunately I don't see this getting any better. Amazon wants turnover. They are getting far more money by volume + fee's versus the small increments in pricing + storage cost.

The buy box logic/unfair pricing are the primary drivers that would make me quit selling. There are many risks/reasons not too, but not being able to move product due to a systemic purposeful policy implementation is a business killer. There are so many listings that are 20-30% less profitable due to the sticky price problem which makes the business model invalid. I had thousands of the Mario Cat suit and Fire suits. I was moving hundreds a month at 40-50 and then one day. All the listings were removed and the price was stuck at 15$. With everything else it's impossible to operate a business like this on Amazon without a free market. It's not like collectibles are required medical devices the policy is stupid.

Yeah, it has always been F'd by Amazon, but this year they took away the lube

[gmpirate]

6 hours ago, landphieran said:

Unfortunately I don't see this getting any better. Amazon wants turnover. They are getting far more money by volume + fee's versus the small increments in pricing + storage cost.

The buy box logic/unfair pricing are the primary drivers that would make me quit selling. There are many risks/reasons not too, but not being able to move product due to a systemic purposeful policy implementation is a business killer. There are so many listings that are 20-30% less profitable due to the sticky price problem which makes the business model invalid. I had thousands of the Mario Cat suit and Fire suits. I was moving hundreds a month at 40-50 and then one day. All the listings were removed and the price was stuck at 15$. With everything else it's impossible to operate a business like this on Amazon without a free market. It's not like collectibles are required medical devices the policy is stupid.

This about sums it up.  I've always been able to adjust/pivot but not being able to move product just kills the whole endeavor.