Walmart Welcomes More 3rd Party Sellers To The Marketplace
Walmart is easing its once strict approval process, paving the way for more 3rd party sellers to join the marketplace.
Previously, sellers had to jump through many hoops, requesting permission to sell on the site, waiting to see if they passed the approval process, then signing contracts and going through the onboarding and integration process.
Now, Walmart has updated the site with a much more welcoming tone and streamlined sign up process.
Sellers are simply invited to join, rather than apply, and are no longer asked about revenue, catalog size or what other marketplaces they use. Instead, they can now go live after verifying their business information, payment details, and shipping info.
According to Marketplace Pulse, sellers are flocking to join Walmart marketplace with nearly a thousand new sellers a day signing up since the approval process changed earlier this week.
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According to Marketplace Pulse research, nearly a thousand new sellers joined the Walmart marketplace each day of this week. Roughly four times more than before and almost as much as the Amazon marketplace in the U.S.
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I had a customer open THREE separate INAD cases back to back in Feb. She told a bunch of falsehoods in her comments on the case and refused to provide pictures to back up what she was saying, so I called her out on in it with proof that her statements were untrue.
Even though I knew she was trying to scam me, of course, I approved the returns [all 3] and provided a pre-paid shipping label.
She never sent anything back. I got 3 messages from eBay's system saying "We've closed your buyer's return because we have no record that they shipped the item back to you."
However, eBay's system counted all of them against me in my Service Metrics, causing my "Item not as described returns" rate to be: 0.98% even though the buyer was an obvious scammer and didn't return the items.
I didn't have to refund her since she never shipped anything back so there's not a problem there and eBay did remove her feedback, but eBay still counted the cases against me in my 'service metrics' percentage making me look bad in comparison to my peers.