Positive clicks: Amazon’s gesture of support for its seller partners

Amazon India, which started the year with over 6,00,000 sellers on its platform, is offering them waivers, refunds, rewards and incentives to cope with the challenges they are facing during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The e-tail giant is offering a 50 per cent waiver on SoA (Selling on Amazon) fees till the end of June 2020 to all those sellers who average GMS (gross merchandise sales) of ₹10,000 or below in January and February. The SoA fee is a percentage of the total sales price that is paid by the buyer. Waiver of storage fees for sellers who use FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon) and store their inventory in Amazon’s Fulfilment Centres is being offered till April 30. Additionally, long-term storage fees to store lower priority, non-essential products at Amazon’s FCs until further notice on the lockdown is being offered for March and April 2020.