I have been trying for months to list a new product, my product has a GS1 barcode and brand name and logo.

I recently got my brand name approved on amazon.. when I try to list the approved brand name and add my GS1 barcode number I get the error message 'Brand Authorisation Required: The ability to create or edit ASINs using this brand name is restricted to authorised sellers. You need to apply for approval to add or modify products for this brand'

I have been trying list this product for months and running into all sorts of errors this being the latest!!

How on earth do we now get brand approval?

1. Trying to list a new item for a brand which I am already using. Now says I need Brand Approval for the item. So I click on 'Apply to Sell' button and it takes me to a 'View Selling Applications' page and it now shows that the Brand I am trying to list against has a 'declined' beside it - even though I have already gone through the approval process for this brand and have offers against the brand which are active. Clicking the 'reapply' button does nothing.

2. Trying to list a product for a new Brand. Again says I need Brand Approval and again the 'Apply to Sell' button takes me to 'View Selling Applications' page - but now what do I do?

In both cases I am taken to 'View Selling Applications' - but there is no facility, option or button to start a new application only to look at historical old applications - for which many now say 'declined' even though I have been given approval in the past. I cannot see anywhere how to start a new brand approval application.

Help pages refers to getting a 'Request Approval' option which is certainly how it used to work - but now I am instead just taken to this 'View Selling Applications' page and then there is nowhere to go to start a new application.

So we have a product that has a brand but no barcodes that when trying to add a new listing states 'Brand Authorisation Required: The ability to create or edit ASINs using this brand name is restricted to authorised sellers. You need to apply for approval to add or modify products for this brand.'

On the initial listing page we have indicated the brand and under External Product ID have ticked 'I don't have a product ID'

There is an apply to sell button. We click it.

It then advises us to upload the product information and then photos. The photos need to show a UPC. No matter what we do, amazon are now insisting that to get brand approval, we need to show a product with a barcode.

Anyone else getting this issue?