Amazon Renewed
What is Amazon Renewed?
On Amazon Renewed, you can sell high-quality refurbished, pre-owned and open-box products to millions of Amazon customers worldwide. All products on Amazon Renewed must be tested and certified to work and look like new. Only sellers that maintain a high quality and performance bar can offer refurbished, pre-owned and open-box products on Amazon Renewed.
Where can I access Amazon Renewed quality requirements on Seller Central?
The Amazon Renewed quality requirements document for Amazon.co.jp is available here.
How to apply for Amazon Renewed ?
To be considered to sell Renewed items, review the category requirements below. If you meet the requirements, click here to apply. We will review your request and if you meet the requirements, we will reach out with an onboarding email, usually within 10 business days.
To apply for Amazon Renewed, you must meet the following criteria:
- The seller has acquired the qualification of an antique dealer and has a past sales record of used and refurbished products.
- Products must be inspected, cleaned, repaired (if applicable) and tested by a manufacturer or a specialized third-party refurbisher to function and look like-new.
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You can supply invoices showing a minimum of total value of 5,000,000 JPY in qualifying refurbished purchases in the previous 90 days from the date of the application.
- Items with a selling price of 1,500 JPY or less do not count towards the refurbished units. You may black-out either the unit or dollar amount on the invoices, but not both.
- For approval to list on Apple branded items, we require invoices dated from trailing 90 days that total 10,000,000 JPY in Apple refurbished products.
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You need to submit a minimum of 8 images of a sample unit for product and packaging review (box in which the product will ship, inside packaging and padding, product from top and bottom, product from all four sides).
- If you have an item with a screen, we request images of the screen turned on.
- You will honor the Amazon Renewed Guarantee for all of your Renewed products.
- If you are an existing seller on Amazon, or once you start selling on Amazon, you have an Order-Defect-Rate (ODR) of 0.8% or less in the trailing 90 days.
- You can meet and adhere to our Amazon Renewed Global Quality Policies.
Listing Restrictions
All Renewed products must be capable of being repaired/refurbished and tested to look and work like new in accordance with our Global Quality Policy. Repair/refurbish capability means that products must have electrical and/or mechanical components that can be replaced and/or upgraded to new or like-new condition.
Wireless device protective cases, charging accessories (cables, wall plugs, etc.) and ink and toner cartridges are not permitted to be sold in the Amazon Renewed program.
To ensure a positive customer experience, Amazon will remove any products from Amazon Renewed that are not capable of being repaired/refurbished, pose a hygienic or safety risk or violate any other Amazon policies.
Below is a list of permitted products:
| Allowed Products |
| Air conditioners |
| Audio receivers and amplifiers |
| Blu-ray and DVD players |
| Cameras |
| Car stereos, security, video & radar detectors |
| Cell phone devices |
| Chain saws, pole saws and log splitters |
| Chippers, shredders and mulchers |
| Dehumidifiers |
| Digital antennas |
| Digital musical instruments |
| Electric ceiling fans |
| Electrical floor cleaning devices |
| Electric kitchen appliances |
| Embroidery machines |
| Fitness machines |
| Fitness watches |
| Generators |
| GPS devices |
| Graphing and scientific calculators |
| Headphones |
| Headsets |
| Home stereo equipment |
| Home theater systems |
| Irons |
| Media players |
| Microphones |
| Modems |
| Monitors |
| Outdoor blowers and vacs |
| Personal Computers (PC) |
| PC digital internal power supply |
| PC graphics cards |
| PC keyboards, mice, game pads and webcams |
| PC monitors |
| PC motherboards |
| PC processors |
| PC servers |
| Pneumatic tools |
| Portable media players |
| Powered lawn mowers, hedge trimmers and edgers |
| Power tools, power drills and power saws |
| Pressure washers |
| Printers |
| Projectors |
| Refrigerators |
| Routers |
| Scanners |
| Security cameras and systems |
| Sewing machines |
| Shredders |
| Smartwatches |
| Snow throwers |
| Sound and recording equipment |
| Sound bars |
| Space heaters |
| Speakers |
| Tablets |
| Televisions |
| Thermostats |
| Universal remote controls |
| Vacuums |
| Video cameras |
| Video Game Consoles and controllers |
How to help grow your business on Amazon Renewed?
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Fulfillment by Amazon
Leverage our fulfillment networks and expertise so that your customers and your business benefit. You send your products to Amazon fulfillment centers, we pick, pack, and ship them and provide customer service.
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Sponsored Products
You choose which products you want to advertise, assign keywords to those products, and enter a cost-per-click bid. When an Amazon shopper searches for one of your keywords, your ad will become eligible for display in multiple placements across the site.
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Lightning Deals
Lightning Deals are flash sales where a product is featured for several hours on the Amazon Deals page, one of the most visited pages on Amazon.
Do I need to pay additional fees as part of Amazon Renewed?
Additional referral fees will be applied on August 30, 2021, to join and sell on Amazon Renewed in addition to the standard fees for selling on Amazon.
The additional referral fee will be 1-2% (depending on category - please see below for detail) in addition to the standard seller Referral Fee.
- 2% Renewed Referral fee for mobile and smartphone products (in addition to the current standard Electronics Referral Fee).
- 1% Renewed Referral fee for all other categories (in addition to the current standard Referral Fee base)
Will I be able to edit the listing and product information?
Yes, you will be able to edit product information of your certified refurbished listings. Learn more.
