{"id":60457,"date":"2012-09-21T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=60457"},"modified":"2012-09-21T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T12:13:37","slug":"takealot-loses-import-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/60457-takealot-loses-import-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Takealot loses import service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online retailer, Takealot<\/a> has recently announced that it has terminated its US and UK import departments because \u201cthe technical method used to provide the service is no longer available to us\u201d.<\/p>\n

Takealot CEO, Kim Reid<\/a> said that, despite the group’s best efforts, it was unable to negotiate the sustainable use of the technical integration needed to provide these services to its customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have already ordered using our US or UK import departments and have not yet received your order, don’t worry, we will continue to fulfill existing orders,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n

According to two well-placed industry sources, there was a dispute between Takealot and Amazon.com<\/a> \u2013 from where Takealot sourced its US and UK based import products \u2013 on how Takealot uses the Amazon Application Programming Interface (API) and how the company sells the products.<\/p>\n

One source indicated that Amazon essentially cut off Takealot from its API, making it impossible for the company to continue offering Amazon products.<\/p>\n

Amazon cut us off<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reid explained that Amazon blocked its feed without any warning. \u201cThere is no way to negotiate with Amazon,\u201d said Reed.<\/p>\n

Reed said that Amazon has certain terms and condition on how companies can use its feeds, and while Takealot feels that it functions within these conditions, Amazon had a different view.<\/p>\n

While Takelot is expected to lose some revenue because of this change (possibly less than 10%), Reid said that it may be a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n

The Takealot CEO said that it was very challenging to guarantee high service levels with its import service \u2013 a core focus for the company.<\/p>\n

Reid said that Takealot\u2019s focus remains on its local products and local suppliers, and that it is showing healthy growth in this area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have ten, largely locally sourced, fantastic categories to choose from, and we are busy adding more selection and depth every day,\u201d said Reid.<\/p>\n

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Takealot has lost access to Amazon’s catalogue due to problems with the way the company uses the American online retailer\u2019s API<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[723,35,1179,995],"class_list":["post-60457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-amazon","tag-headline","tag-kim-reid","tag-takealot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60465,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60457\/revisions\/60465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}