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Amazon on Wednesday informed its U.S. sellers they will soon have to display their business name and address on their Amazon.com seller profile page. For individual sellers, this will include the individualâs name and address. A similar system is already in place across Amazonâs stores in Europe, Japan and Mexico, due to local laws. Amazon says itâs making the change to ensure thereâs a more consistent baseline of seller information across its platform, so online shoppers can make informed buying decisions.
The change, of course, is not just about transparency.
Amazonâs U.S. marketplace is its oldest and largest, with 461,000 active U.S. sellers out of its 2.2 million worldwide actives. In total, there are 8.6 million registered sellers worldwide and Amazon adds around a million more per year, according to Marketplace Pulse data.
Amazonâs marketplace also accounts for around half the retailerâs sales. But as it has grown, it has been afflicted by a variety of issues and fraud, including problems with counterfeit goods.
Though Amazon has long been accused of avoiding these issues, itâs more recently pledged to spend billions to address the problem. Amazon even inserted itself into legal battles with fraudulent sellers and counterfeiters over the past couple of years, including those with designers and accessory makers, as well as others participating in the fake reviews economy.
Last year, Amazon also launched a set of tools for brands and manufacturers under its âProject Zeroâ initiative, which work to proactively combat counterfeiting.
And just this April, Amazon announced it was piloting a new system aimed at verifying the identity of third-party sellers over video-conferencing â a shift from its in-person verifications that had to stop due to the coronavirus outbreak. Through this system, Amazon checks that the individual sellerâs ID matches the person and the documents they shared with their application, among other things.
Now Amazon is telling its U.S. sellers their business name and address will need to be on their profile by September 1, 2020.
The change will help businesses fighting fraud or taking legal action against sellers over counterfeit goods. Consumers will also have an address in case the product has caused harm and they need to contact the seller or even initiative legal action of their own.
Once the new system goes live in the U.S., the sellerâs storefront on Amazon.com will display an expanded set of information about their business.
A photo from Marketplace Pulse shows how this may look, with a comparison of a U.K. seller page with its current U.S. counterpart:
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Image Credits: Marketplace Pulse
In a statement, Amazon says the change is about consistently, avoiding the topic of online fraud.
âOver the years, we have developed many ways for sellers to share more about their business, including through features like the seller profile pages, âStoreâ pages for brand owners, and Handmade âMaker Profileâ pages,â an Amazon spokesperson said. âThese features help customers learn more about sellersâ businesses and their products. Beginning September 1, we will also display sellersâ business name and address on their Amazon.com seller profile page to ensure there is a consistent baseline of seller information to help customers make informed shopping decisions,â they said.
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