Links for buying used and new copies disappeared
The links for buying copies of books from other suppliers seem to have disappeared eg
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Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
I am finding it comes and goes. A bit frustrating.
Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
they’re playing around again - i’ve a couple of products that i’ve checked this afternoon and the buy box has gone completely !!
no doubt a change on the seller central home page is coming again !!
Seller_BS5lg2keRs2QO
For that first ASIN there are 28 different offers if i try to list against it, but it then directs to a 404 page - maybe they’re migrating things to new pages and some are stuck / in-between somehow?
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
I’m seeing no offers at all on the Klein book.
The only way I can bring them into view is to ‘hack’ the URL by manually inserting the ‘offer-listing’ bit:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0141024534
I’ve just checked a few other titles and almost everything is affected. Not just books but CDs and DVDs too.
Not good… 
Seller_Rds42gzScDQFa
I noticed this a moment ago. If there’s only a new copy nothing shows but if a used copy is available that shows.
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
It appears that Amazon has finally closed the tiny loophole that allowed us to see all offers by right-clicking ‘all offers’ and opening a new tab or window.
Doing so now forces that annoying pop-up to override the plain ‘all offers’ page.
You can no longer even ‘hack the URL’ by adding the ASIN as before
{ https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/ ASIN HERE}
Another kick in the teeth to independent sellers.
Thanks Amazon…
Seller_HbtEgJLFVZHWb
Challenge is the word.
But as an individual seller - I don’t know how it is for big sellers, I just know it works differently - it’s also a bother to list anything for sale, or revise prices: takes so long to examine the competition to price accordingly.
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
Here’s a random example:
If you hover your cursor over the ‘used from’ link you’ll see what looks like the old ‘offer-listing’ format that previously showed all seller offers in a full page:
however, as soon as you click it, it turns into this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752883534/ref=olp_aod_redir#aod
there doesn’t seem to be any way of stopping the ‘offer-listing’ view from auto-converting into the reduced ‘side panel’ view.
Even the links from manage inventory and ‘add a product’ convert to the side panel view.
I’m hoping this is a glitch but it looks like it’s probably going to be yet a permanent ‘improvement’
I tried the above using Firefox. Switching to Edge did not improve things.
Seller_tj5bg90i9gyCk
It looks like we’re simply going to have get used to the pop-up ‘side panel’ offer listings view on the main product details page, since Amazon seem to have decided to discontinue the separate offer listings page. I’ve just been testing a few random ASINs in my inventory (books, CDs etc) and I find that the pop-up panel loads fairly instantly (on a brand new laptop with fast broadband), so it’s not a big problem for sellers wanting to check rival sellers’ prices. Personally, I preferred having the old separate offers page, as the information was laid out more clearly, but the pop-up panel seems to show all the same information (including images if sellers have used them in their offer).
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
Bumping this up.
I was wondering my DVD sales have all but collapsed in recent weeks so I went through my inventory.
I was gobsmacked to find that loads of my listings are impossible to find on the offers page. There is a buybox and nothing more.
Even though the link on the ‘edit inventory’ page might tell you, say:
14 New…8 Used from £1.36+ £1.76 delivery
When you actually click on it, there is only one offer shown, and that is the buybox offer.
Here’s an example:
there should be at least 8 offers on that ASIN
What is doubly confusing is that the ‘Amazon price’ column used to mean the item sold and dispatched by Amazon - it now simply means the listing featured in the buybox, even when it’s from a seller with just half a dozen lifetime feedbacks…
