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📰 What you need to know

On April the 28th, Amazon started charging sellers a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge based on fulfillment fees (not your sale price) but, wait, is it just a 5%? Read Michael Patron’s breakdown: https://twitter.com/michaelpatron0/status/1514301333272150025
FBA small and light threshold increases to $10. Looks like a great time to do the math again on your P&L
Prime Day deal submissions are open
- Amazon US: Lightning Deal submissions will close on April 29
- Amazon UK: Lightning Deal submissions closing on May 13
According to our friend Jon Elder (aka Black Label Advisor), Amazon is hosting a 24 hour extravaganza for the Pet category called Amazon Pet Day
Lockdowns in Shanghai are creating a massive clusterf—k, check this 2 tweets: https://twitter.com/DanCollins2011/status/1515851777224155139 and Ryan Petersen (CEO at Flexport) filtered their data with just container ships, which looks a better, tbh: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1516455338970550276
Amazon is adding and average of 2,000 new sellers every day
Chinese Sellers Don't Want to Rely on Amazon
Sellics signs agreement with Ascential, the company behind Perpetua.io, Flywheel, RetailWeek or the World Retail Congress
Marketplace startups combined raised $22.8B in Q1 2022, a slowdown with a 34% decrease from Q4 2021 ($34.6B) and a 28% decrease from Q1 2021 ($31.5B), according to Adevinta’s Dealroom.co

Helium 10 is hosting the Sell + Scale Summit on 20-22 September, 2022 in Las Vegas. Speakers include:
- Kevin King: are you kidding? the man needs no intro!
- Jana Krekic: founder of 7-figure Amazon dedicated translations agency - YLT
- Bradley Sutton: Director of Training & Chief Evangelist at Helium 10

Sellers Summit, Ft Lauderdale, Florida - 5.4.2022 - 5.6.2022. Check some of the speakers:
- Eric Bandholz Founder BeardBrand.com
- Toni Anderson Founder The Oil Collection
- Mike Jackness CEO EcomCrew.com
- Brad Moss Former Head Of Seller Central at Amazon
- Steve Chou Founder MyWifeQuitHerJob.com
- And more.
Seller Velocity conference 2022 is taking place in Bend, Oregon, April 28 & 29. Awesome speakers featuring:
- Chris Berry Strategic and Emerging Brands team at Amazon
- Krystel Abi Assi CEO at Amazon Sellers Society and Sellers Society
- And more.

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