Amazon seller Reddit is worth reading for three things: unfiltered accounts of what a policy change felt like in practice, sanity checks on quotes from freight forwarders and prep centres, and early warnings when something breaks at scale. It is a poor source for numbers. Fee figures, capacity allowances, eligibility rules and title limits all change on Amazon’s schedule, not Reddit’s, and a highly upvoted comment from eighteen months ago carries the same visual authority as one from this morning. This guide maps the main Amazon FBA Reddit communities to what each is actually for, lists the post types moderators remove, and gives you the official page to check for every claim that Reddit gets wrong most often.
A note on how this page was researched
Plain automated requests to Reddit do not return usable pages from this environment: on 2026-08-31 they came back as empty shell pages carrying no post content, or as a “Welcome to Reddit” login wall. The member counts and rules below were therefore read in a real browser session on that same date, from each community’s own page and its own public rules listing.
Two caveats. Member counts are point-in-time and move daily, so treat the figures in the table as accurate for 2026-08-31 rather than for today. Rule summaries here are condensed. Each subreddit publishes its own rules page, that page is the only authority on what will get you removed, and it takes ten seconds to read before you post.
Which Amazon seller subreddits are useful, and what each is for
| Community | What it is for | Who is answering | Question it answers well |
|---|---|---|---|
| r/FulfillmentByAmazon (143,750 members, read 2026-08-31) | FBA operations: shipment plans, receiving problems, storage and removal decisions, reimbursements, account-level warnings | Established sellers and long-time operators; the most technical of the group | “My shipment has been in receiving for three weeks — is that normal for this fulfilment centre right now?” |
| r/AmazonSeller (97,740 members, same date) | General selling on Amazon across FBA and FBM, plus listing, Buy Box, account health and suspension threads | A wide mix, from first-week sellers to agency staff | “Amazon deactivated my listing citing a policy I’ve never heard of — what does that notice usually mean?” |
| r/AmazonFBATips (42,628 members, same date) | Beginner-level questions and general FBA discussion | Skews new; more course-adjacent content than the two above | “What does the FBA workflow look like end to end before I commit money?” |
| Amazon’s own Seller Forums (not Reddit) | Anything where Amazon’s position is the answer, not a seller opinion | Sellers plus Amazon staff accounts posting under official names | “What is Amazon’s actual stance on this?” |
The fourth row matters more than it looks. Amazon’s Seller Forums are public to read, and posts from Amazon’s own staff accounts carry weight that no Reddit comment does. When a question is genuinely about policy rather than experience, the forums are the better place to search first — and the answer you find there is citable when you open a case.
Reddit’s structural advantage is the opposite one. People post under pseudonyms, so they will tell you a supplier ghosted them, a prep centre lost a pallet, or a product failed, in terms nobody puts on LinkedIn. That is the value: failure data. Use it for pattern recognition, not for parameters.
What gets your post removed
Most first posts that vanish do so for one of four reasons. None of them are personal, and all of them are avoidable.
Anything that reads as promotion. This is the strictest rule across the Amazon seller subs and the one newcomers trip over hardest. r/AmazonSeller’s own rules confine anything you are affiliated with — “anything by, about, or for you” — to a single Community Promotional Post, and state that violations will be a ban, no exceptions or appeals. r/FulfillmentByAmazon is blunter: promoting a site, service or product you are affiliated with in any way, without mod approval, means an instant ban with no prior warning (rules read 2026-08-31). The practical reading: if you own it, built it, work for it, or get paid when someone clicks it, it does not go in a normal post. That includes a link in your first comment, a screenshot with your logo in the corner, and a “not affiliated, just love this tool” disclaimer on a tool you are in fact affiliated with. Moderators of e-commerce subs see that framing constantly.
Asking for reviews, upvotes or testers. Review swaps, “test my product” offers and anything resembling review manipulation are removed on sight in seller communities, and they also violate Amazon’s own policies with account-level consequences. If review integrity is what you are researching, our guide to Amazon fake review checkers covers the detection side without the community risk.
“What should I sell?” Product-selection questions with no research attached are the single most common removal in beginner-facing threads, because they are unanswerable and arrive dozens of times a day. Nobody can tell a stranger what to sell; they can tell you whether your shortlist survives scrutiny. Do the screening first — what you can sell as a new seller walks the category and gating constraints — then post the shortlist with your numbers and ask what you missed.
Naming a specific tool or service in a way that reads as an ad. Asking “which repricer handles X?” is usually fine. Posting a ranked list of five tools with links is usually not, regardless of your intent, because it is indistinguishable from the paid version of the same post. If you want a comparison rather than a recommendation, an independent directory is a better fit than a thread. AMZFinder is one such site — it publishes tool reviews organised by workflow under the tagline “Best Amazon Seller Tools, Chosen by Workflow”, covering 50+ tools with a consistent scorecard and true-cost pricing, and it does not sell software of its own (checked 2026-08-31). AMZBase’s own seller tools directory serves the same purpose.
Where the advice goes wrong: six claims to check against Amazon’s own pages
The failure mode of Reddit is not bad faith. It is that a correct answer stays online after it stops being correct, and no mechanism ever marks it stale. These six come up constantly in Amazon FBA Reddit threads and are the most likely to be out of date by the time you read them.
| What you will read on Reddit | Why it goes stale | Where to check instead |
|---|---|---|
| A specific FBA fulfilment or referral fee, quoted to the cent | Amazon revises its fee schedule on its own cadence, and threads are rarely edited afterwards | Amazon’s official selling fee schedule; see also our 2026 fee changes breakdown |
| “Restock limits are X units” | Capacity allowances are calculated per account and revised on a rolling basis, so another seller’s number never transfers to yours | Your own capacity figure in Seller Central; background in our FBA restock limits guide |
| “Just email buyers and ask for a review” | Buyer-communication policy is the governing document here, and advice predating current guidance still circulates freely | Amazon’s communication guidelines in Seller Central Help, plus the in-console request-a-review flow |
| “You need a granted trademark for Brand Registry” | Eligibility criteria have been revised more than once; enrolment routes that did not exist when a thread was written now do | Amazon’s Brand Registry eligibility page |
| “Vine is free” or “Vine costs $X” | Vine’s enrolment terms have changed since the programme launched, and both claims appear in threads of different vintages | Amazon’s official Vine page |
| “Titles can be 200 characters” | Length rules vary by category and have been tightened, so a single global number is wrong more often than right | Category style guides in Seller Central; our title limit guide explains why the number differs by category |
The general rule underneath all six: if a claim is a number, a limit, a fee or an eligibility threshold, Reddit is a pointer to the question, never the answer to it. Take the term you learned from the thread, search it in Seller Central Help or on Amazon’s FBA overview, and cite that instead. Reddit’s real contribution is telling you which question to ask.
A second, subtler failure: survivorship. Threads titled “how I hit $50K/month” are written by the people it worked for. The people it did not work for mostly stopped posting. That skews the visible base rate for every strategy discussed, which is why “is this business still viable?” threads skew optimistic — a question we treat with numbers in is selling on Amazon worth it.
How to ask a question that gets a useful answer
The difference between a post with two dismissive replies and one with a detailed answer is almost entirely in the framing.
- Lead with the specifics. Category, price point, fulfilment method, marketplace, and how long you have been selling. Experienced sellers answer questions they can picture; they skip questions that could mean anything.
- Show what you already checked. “Seller Central Help says X, but my case manager said Y” gets engagement. “How do I fix this?” gets told to search.
- Ask one question. Multi-part posts get one part answered and the rest ignored.
- Post the error text. Amazon’s notice wording is highly searchable, and someone will recognise the exact phrasing.
- Do not post account or order identifiers. Order IDs, case numbers and screenshots with buyer details do not belong in a public thread.
- Search before posting. A subreddit’s own search plus a site-limited web search will answer most operational questions within minutes, and the sub’s regulars can tell instantly whether you tried.
When Reddit is the wrong tool
Three situations where a community thread will actively cost you time.
An active suspension or account-health event. The clock matters, the answer depends on documents nobody in the thread can see, and generic appeal templates circulating on Reddit are recognisable to the teams reading them. Our account suspension appeal guide is a better starting point, and Amazon’s own performance notification is the primary source.
Reimbursement claims. These turn on Amazon’s own reports and specific case-filing windows, not on opinion. Work from the data; see our FBA reimbursement guide.
Deciding whether a course is worth buying. Threads about paid FBA training are heavily astroturfed in both directions — by affiliates on one side and by competing course sellers on the other. Judge these on structure and refund terms rather than sentiment; we cover the evaluation criteria in Amazon FBA training and the warning signs in Amazon automation: legit vs scam.
If you are still at the planning stage, sequencing beats crowdsourcing: our how to start an Amazon FBA business walkthrough puts the decisions in an order that stops you asking Reddit questions that only your own numbers can answer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which subreddit is best for Amazon FBA questions?
For operational FBA questions — shipments, receiving, storage, removals, reimbursements — r/FulfillmentByAmazon is the most technical of the Amazon seller communities, with 143,750 members when we read the page on 2026-08-31. For broader selling questions spanning FBA and merchant-fulfilled, r/AmazonSeller is the wider room. For anything where Amazon’s official position is the answer, use Amazon’s Seller Forums instead of Reddit.
Why did my post get removed from an Amazon seller subreddit?
The four most common causes are content that reads as self-promotion, any request touching reviews or ratings, unqualified “what should I sell” questions, and tool recommendations that look like advertising. Self-promotion is the strictest of these: r/AmazonSeller’s own rules confine affiliated content to a single Community Promotional Post and state that violations will be a ban, no exceptions or appeals (rules read 2026-08-31). Read the sub’s own rules page before reposting.
Is Amazon FBA advice on Reddit reliable?
It is reliable for experience and unreliable for parameters. Accounts of what happened to a seller, how a supplier behaved, or how long a process actually took are genuinely useful, and Reddit surfaces failures that marketing content never does. Fees, capacity limits, eligibility rules and character limits are not reliable, because Amazon changes them and old threads are never corrected. Verify every number against Seller Central Help or Amazon’s public seller pages.
Can I promote my Amazon product or tool on Reddit?
Not in ordinary posts on the main seller subreddits. The Amazon seller communities restrict affiliated content to designated threads, and moderators treat disguised promotion — a link dropped in your own comment, a branded screenshot, a “not affiliated” disclaimer that is not true — as the same violation. If you want visibility, answer questions in your area of expertise over time and let people find you; that is the only approach these communities tolerate.
Are Amazon’s Seller Forums better than Reddit?
They are better for different things. The Seller Forums are the place for questions about Amazon’s own position, because Amazon staff post there under official accounts and the threads are citable when you open a case. Reddit is better for candid experience, vendor sanity checks and early warning of problems, because pseudonymity lets sellers say things they will not say under their own name. Most sellers use both.
The bottom line
Read Amazon seller Reddit for texture and warnings; verify anything numeric somewhere else. Match the community to the question — operations to r/FulfillmentByAmazon, general selling to r/AmazonSeller, Amazon’s official position to the Seller Forums. Before your first post, open the sub’s rules page and check it against the four removal triggers above, because the promotional rule in particular is stricter than most newcomers expect. And when a thread hands you a fee, a limit or an eligibility rule, treat it as a search term rather than a fact: the authoritative version is one click away on Amazon’s own pages, and it is the only version that will hold up when it matters.