A LOT of products are being suppressed from search as "Adult Products" although they are plainly and obviously not adult products.
Amazon's adult products policy: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G200339940
"Our policies apply to any adult product that is designed for use in sexual activities or sexual wellness."
One support person said there was a No Promote policy and I should refer to the "Performance Notification" about the product.
I called them out as just making stuff up and requested a link to the policy as what they referred to does not exist in seller documents, is unknown to seller assist, and there is no Performance Notification. No response. Support cases are just being left open without a response.
The problem is compounded because:
1. Products in FBA suddenly do not get sales. Amazon either needs to sell the products or pay for its stranding of inventory and refund storage fees.
2. There is NO notification an ASIN has been impacted. No listing violation. No policy violation. No restricted products violation. No performance notification. No flag in inventory manager such as exists when a listing is not buy box eligible. Nothing. When clicking on an ASIN from inventory manager the link will show an active Amazon url, but when searching for the ASIN in the marketplace there is nothing as search is suppressed. Normally when there is a listing issue suppressing search there is "listing policy violation" in Account Health so that a seller can address the issue - but here there is nothing.
Some recent forum threads on the issue:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/d3a8c19e-3dfa-4d57-b417-e8cd3edecc4b
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/d8517fe4-4a06-41be-abab-3bd470758ac4
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/81e57e5b-96a4-4966-b2d8-f7a559861811
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/6f35154d-a433-4a2b-ba98-c0fa94f03fbf
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/4de57504-0347-4fd8-8c2e-7b6ddea38d2c
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/6e1c86f3-bed2-41da-abf7-0fd5e062b6f6
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/87ee32b0-b3f3-42f9-ac3d-709604376a03
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/fc0ff899-12f1-4f5f-a063-6650d4edcbcc
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/b3203b8e-2354-43ae-bf39-5362e17ab068
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/80ff381a-86e3-40f9-8a63-8605141072cc
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/04a57f34-6e06-441f-a170-4c4f2dcc7dff
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/2152658e-314d-42cd-a9db-094b2c7b8f1c
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/68223be4-9632-4f9b-9a0c-23093143e150
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/58721a60-3a70-4b61-85e1-70a2d49194a2
Basically, what is going on?