List Price attribute (Books)
Just noticed whilst listing a book for sale that there is a new requirement - List Price with Tax for Display attribute. Are we now required to find and add the publishers rrp?
Thanks
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Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
I'm seeing this on all used books when going into edit inventory. It's a pain as it cannot be ignored, even by clicking 'irrelevant attribute'.
I'm not sure if it's a glitch.*
If not, it's another indication that Amazon designers have lost the plot when it comes to the used book market (which is where it all started for 3rd party sellers, ironically).
*There are some old threads on the topic (relating to DVDs and CDs rather than books) where it is suggested that entering '0' is the solution but it would be good to have this confirmed by a mod.
Seller_76AUwmqvSyRIM
Here is the confirmation. Email received from Amazon on the 13th May 2024.
Seller_19xPhE8YgkmxW
Hi All,
I sell books and this sounds a bit invidious to me - if you put the original price for e.g. a paperback from the 1950s at £0.125 (original price) - you, or someone else could be held to an 'excessive' price of £10 for a nice copy of a paperback that's 70 years old!
If you put in your current price, you're similarly potentially limiting other sellers to a close approximation of your price regardless of condition because of "deactivated due to potential pricing error"
Looks like £0.00 is the only sensible answer...
Rock and a hard place...
Brian
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
By the way, does anyone know how to edit ASINs directly using the new beta inventory pages?
I dislike the beta layout as it is and have reverted to the old format but the lack of an obvious edit button seems like yet another oversight.
Seller_iUcF35YSDwxDs
Yeah this is frustrating, I had 300+ books stranded and had to go back in and individually re-list them.
The worst part of this for me, is I have written my own software to list books (We list around 200+ a day on average), but the API hasn't been updated to be able to upload to this new field !!!
Question though, does this need to be done once per asin if it's now a required field? IE if someone selling the same book populates it, you dont have to?
Seller_eX5PU1b0GGPXn
I don't sell New
I have started on my used books putting 0.00
So far so good
Hope that helps with Used/Collectable
Seller_IIN3x1w8KT2PI
Oh!! I read this as meaning 'list the price including tax (VAT)' as I assumed this referred to 'price including VAT' which I had seeing when browsing books for sale - a nonsense in the UK as the VAT rate on books in the UK is 0% in almost all cases. A 'list price' is potentially illegal in the UK, hence the shift to 'recommended retail price' I had just copied my price into this box. If there is a printed or handwritten price in or on the book, I might quote this in the condition description if it would affect the purchase decision. Clearly a nonsense particularly for books with pre-decimal or foreign-currency prices! It amazes me that Amazon launches so much stuff without checking that it is legal/ makes sense in local markets. it seems to be only the massive organisations (like banks, government agencies, big IT companies etc) that are totally blind to the 'situation on the ground, -whatever happened to 'sell global act local'? Well hey folks you got mail!
Seller_CLGEG5dNL8MpN
I've been getting this error when uploading using the UIEE file format.
Apparently I need to include a new header.
Anyone know what the header for 'list price with tax is for the UIEE file format?
Advice would be much appreciated.
