Amazon Returns Policy
Before I was an Award Winner
Recent events have had me re-evaluating my writing career.
For decades, I thought the writer who despised me winning the award in 2012, and trashed my book online was the cause of my decline, but the truth goes further back than 2012.
Like most people who sell items, I added my eBook selections to Amazon for sale, without realising I had no sales opportunity as the site is like a department store, not a book store; which is why I put my eBooks on Draft2Digital for many years.
Other than a lack of sales from Amazon, my bestseller on the site had sold 25 copies in a decade, that is because it sold several copies, twice, in a weekend, my next bestselling eBook had only sold 15 copies in a decade.
The rot set in as soon as I added my stock to Amazon, because of their returns policy. I saw two of my stories about dragons had sold, but because the buyer had returned the eBook within days, all I got was a tiny raise in the rating for the eBooks. So, I wrote another short story, and sent in. I got the reaction I expected, it was snapped up, and returned within two days.
That was when I reaised I would be fighting a losing battle selling on Amazon.
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