Seller fees revision: Amazon to hike rates across categories

Starting May 31, Amazon India will increase seller fees for a number of key categories like apparels, beauty, groceries and medicines, with experts saying that the hike could make products costlier on the platform as sellers are likely to pass on the increase to customers. The platform’s fees for handling product returns will also increase significantly.

“Seller fee revision are based on various factors including change in market dynamics and various macro-economic factors. As a part of our recent fee revision, we have made certain changes to our fee rate card, including introduction of new fee categories and also reduction of fees in certain categories,” said company spokesperson.