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This cropped up as an error report:
"This listing is a potential duplicate of another listing on Amazon. We recommend that you review alternate values before requesting a change.
Submitted by you :
Brand Name: University of Nebraska Press
Amazon's catalogue :
Brand Name: Brand: University of Nebraska Press"
Anyone with half a brain cell can see that they are, to all intents & purposes, exactly the same (apart from the duplicated 'brand'. But not to the clots who write the programs that rule our life on Amazon.
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Seller_zDUw7ekrB6OEy
I'm not sure of your point here. It is pointing out that it is potentially a duplicate which is correct as the second one has brand in the title. We are a long way from AI being able to work out subtleties like this.
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
Branding is a joke when it comes to the book catalogue.
I am trying to update the title for an out of print book but SS demands I supply a publisher's URL. Slight problem as the publisher has been defunct for many years.
On a positive note, I managed to get one of those 'SOS Title Unkown' ASINs updated with the correct title and it took only three messages to SS plus a link to 'worldcat' in place of the publisher's URL (again, defunct).
I nearly fell off my chair...
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