I can see that the horror of GSPR is coming down the tracks. Does it apply to second hand books? I can't find anything to suggest that it doesn't...

But it will be impossible to comply. And to apply safety regulations to books is nonsenical (unless ideas are to be banned). Many of the 'manufacturers' (is that publishers or printers?) for example, no longer exist. How can their books then be labelled with their contact information?

And do I really need to fnd an EU-based resonsbile person? Responsible for what, when it comes to books?

My expectation is that this is a pending disaster for all sorts of sellers and we will have to stop selling to EU markets. Am I correct?

Hi there,

Have any other second-hand booksellers noticed that all their Penguin books (and I guess, potentially, other PRH imprints as well) suddenly 'Require Approval' this morning.

Dozens of my listings of second-hand books are being removed as I type this!

The approval process appears to require documents from manufacturers/suppliers etc which is, of course, madness in relation to second-hand books.

After battling this site to sell second-hand books here for about 17 years - this just might be the final nail in the coffin!

Any thoughts or advice on how to deal with this before I jack it all in?

Cheers.

Justin.

Can any booksellers help me here ? I have tried the usual Amazon case route but so far it has been quite hopeless.

I was trying to list a book as 'add a new product' The search of both title and ISBN brought up no results so I went through the tedious, infinitely long and convoluted process of starting from scratch. But when i got to the end it did not go live. The listing is marked as 'incomplete'. This is the error message. Does anyone know what to do ?

You may not change the brand name on this ASIN. Use the brand name currently shown on the ASIN detail page. If you believe you are using the correct brand name, contact Selling Partner Support https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/hz/contact-us and mention the error code 5995.

You are receiving this error as you may be adding Offer-Listing(s) or editing a SKU not present in your catalogue or one that’s been deleted. If this was a deleted SKU, wait 24 hours before resubmitting it. If you have tried to add this SKU to the Amazon catalogue before, check your data and correct any errors before resubmitting. If product is being added to a store from another one, it may require few hours for localisation before it is valid, please check your seller account for progress or any issues.

The book is Hess, the missing years by David Irving. He has had, shall we say, an 'interesting' career. A lot of publishers did not want to bbe associated with him so he set up his own publishing house. He now sells this book from there with the same ISBN, as far as I can find out. I wonder if this could be the problem ?

Amazon keeps asking me for screenshots of the problem. I cant get that to work, and even copy and paste of the exactly the same thing does not satisfy them. And they closed my case because i did not answer them back with 'more details' ( which I dont have ) at 5 am