#501 – Meta Ends Credit Card Payments?! ChatGPT Beats Organic + Big Amazon MCF Update | Weekly Buzz 3/4/26
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We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s Principal Brand Evangelist, Carrie Miller. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, and E-commerce space, talk about Helium...
Claude Code Just Made Every Amazon Seller a Developer
A screenshot. That’s all it took.
No code. No terminal commands. No 45-minute Stack Overflow rabbit hole. Someone took a screenshot of a Seller Central error, pasted it into Claude Code, and said five words:
“What is this. Fix it.”
The AI analyzed the image. Identified the...
Planning production around Amazon 1P POs feels riskier this year
POs look strong, production gets scheduled then reorders slow or volume shifts.
Factories don’t reduce MOQs.
Lead times don’t adjust.
Cash gets tied up in the pipeline.
Feels like the bigger risk isn’t sales, it’s over-commitment.
Would be interesting to hear how others are...
Planning production around Amazon 1P POs feels riskier this year
POs look strong, production gets scheduled then reorders slow or volume shifts.
Factories don’t reduce MOQs.
Lead times don’t adjust.
Cash gets tied up in the pipeline.
Feels like the bigger risk isn’t sales, it’s over-commitment.
Would be interesting to hear how others are...
Why Your Amazon AI Has the Memory of a Goldfish (And How to Fix It)
Monday morning. You open ChatGPT. You paste in your search term report. You explain your product, your margins, your target ACoS. You get a decent analysis back. Good keywords to pause. A few bid adjustments. Useful stuff.
Tuesday morning. You come back. The AI has no idea...
Newer OA seller. Having trouble
New OA seller here doing reverse storefront sourcing (what everyone says is best method ).
It seems like it’s taking me a ridiculous amount of time to find anything worthwhile. I’m scanning for hours, eliminating most listings due to unstable Buy Box history, low sales, or...
Newer OA seller. Having trouble
New OA seller here doing reverse storefront sourcing (what everyone says is best method ).
It seems like it’s taking me a ridiculous amount of time to find anything worthwhile. I’m scanning for hours, eliminating most listings due to unstable Buy Box history, low sales, or...
My request to open an Amazon seller account was denied
Hello,
My request to create a new Amazon seller account was denied and after chatting with an associate they told me to try again with a new email address and phone number.
I will be using my husbands phone number and I created a new email account. I don’t want to be denied...
My request to open an Amazon seller account was denied
Hello,
My request to create a new Amazon seller account was denied and after chatting with an associate they told me to try again with a new email address and phone number.
I will be using my husbands phone number and I created a new email account. I don’t want to be denied...
New 45-day ASIN, 200 sales/month, brand-only seller on listing
Hey everyone,
Looking for outside opinions before I consider this product. I’m a new OA seller fyi… I found a beauty ASIN that’s about 45 days old. Estimated 200 sales/month. Only seller so far has been the brand. Price has been stable the entire time.
Do...