Trying to list gin

I went through the alcohol approval nightmare about a year ago and had the same issues. Just the same generic emails rejecting my licences over and over again for no apparent reason. Only once did I get a different response which if you’re based in Monmouth you might get at some point as you may have a bilingual licence. Apparently Welsh is not a valid language according to Amazon. This was of course complete nonsense and I suspect Amazon were just trying to find a different excuse not to grant us approval. The English text is clearly on the documents.

Anyway, I’m not sure if my thread is still knocking about on Amazon from last year but numerous other sellers were having the same issues as me at the time and I’ve seen plenty of threads since on the same issue. I think generally Amazon just try to restrict the amount of alcohol sellers but they don’t bother telling you that, they just keep feeding you rubbish instead. I was told by plenty of other sellers on the forums that I will never get approval to sell alcohol and they were almost right. It took me about 4 months to get approval. I kept requesting approval every week and kept reopening cases when they were closing them without answering my questions. It was so frustrating especially as I ticked all of Amazon’s boxes but I stuck at it and out of the blue they finally accepted my request. To this day I still don’t know why but I’d be foolish to ask but I sell on Amazon now knowing that one day, they could remove that approval without warning or reason.

So I think you’re probably submitting all the right stuff so I’d suggest you just keep persevering and you might get lucky. All the best!