new inventory manager
I have been looking at the new format inventory manager. Very cumbersome - and I cannot see how I can delete an old listing from the inventory. I sell used books, and most of the stock of 80000+ are one-offs in one way or another. I have therefore been deleting from the inventory anything that sold over 6 months ago; in that way it clears away dead stock that is just cluttering things up.
Anyone found a way to delete ancient & redundant listings?
Seller_mxez2L8QjE6WW
Brilliant!! You are a star. Thank you.
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Seller_k2X0L9mVRT0pW
Click on the 3 dots right side of listing - there is a delete option there - I've just used it
Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh
You can sort by quite a lot of options.
Could you not just Sort by: Available Low to High and that will put SKUs with zero stock on top.
You can then tick as many SKUs as you want on that page (you can show up to 250 SKUs per page) and do a Delete Listing Group Action from the toolbar that appears at the bottom
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
I'm finally being forced to use the new format as the old one was 'deprecated' at the end of August.
I tried it out a few months ago but gave up, hoping it would improve but it hasn't...really.
Firstly (as you found), putting the edit button on the far right of the screen (it used to be on the left) and hiding it behind those minimalist 3 dots is a retrograde step, in my opinion.
As I do not have a widescreen monitor I have to keep scrolling to the right, as well as doing those extra clicks each time I want to do an edit.
Also, it is not possible to delete all coumns in 'Preferences'.
I don't want the 'estimated fees' one but I can't remove it. If I could, there would be that much less clutter.
Another gripe: checking closed/sold listings is a lot more awkward now. To get back to the original 'closed' inventory view, I now have to choose 'inactive' from 'Listing status' and then 'last updated' from the 'Sort by' column.
Whoever designed these latest 'improvements' obviously didn't take sellers of old books and OOP media into account...
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
Are you simply deleting closed/sold listings rather than actual physical stock ?
I tend to keep closed listings in my inventory on the off-chance that I get replacement stock but that means I now have many thousands of closed listings that I really ought to remove.
Given the way the used and OOP book and media markets are heading, it's likely that most of those ASINs will never again be worth listing on Amazon.
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
I can empathise with that... :)
I used to avoid 'popular' fiction like the plague but I came across a source where I could obtain loads for next-to-nothing. Even then, listing it is almost more trouble than it is worth. The time and space it it takes up could be better spent on other things.
Even with older/classic/collectable fiction, as the target audience ages and dies off, it too can become virtually unsellable...unless/until a new generation rediscovers it.
