Pricing too high .what a joke!
I have just listed an out of print book at £60. Amazon have delisted it as a pricing error (i.e. too high!) yet the next highest is £173.95 over £100 more! Why are they allowed to list it then? WAY TOO MUCH BIG BROTHER GOING ON HERE…
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Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
I’ve just had a ‘Listing deactivated due to potential pricing error’…it’s a a 50 year old Penguin paperback listed at £1.98…
Idiocy. 
Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
I have a collectable toy that has been removed. It is selling on other platforms at around £80.
I have dropped the price as low as £24.99 but they still won’t reinstate it because the list price is £9.98.
No one is selling the item on Amazon. I am going to have to remove my FBA stock.
I have had a case open about it since November but nothing is happening apart from the occasional email telling me I am a valued seller.
Seller_lljyzgTxr5fgI
It is another bugbear or mine, I have to admit. Bot’s have no conception of “supply and demand”, of course. That said, I do not understand how your price is too high yet one which is £100 isn’t? Completely bonkers.
Seller_pD4k5nUkDbIgP
I had a pricing policy violation for lowering the price from £58.99 to £57.99. What I object the most is the inconsistency, why are they still allowing people to sell for 99p + £45 delivery for instance?
Seller_24Bec1n3QCVmi
Have you tried going to ‘Pricing Health’ in Seller Central and seeing if it will allow you to set a new ‘max price’?
Julia_Amzn
Hello @ nigelbirdbooks1,
I can see, that you have opened a case with the Seller Support and it is under review. Please keep us posted with the outcomes.
Kind regards,
Julia.
Seller_oGFKRixtdkjxL
Yes it’s nonsense and we all get it - it’s entirely arbitrary and we’ve spent hours have a pricing issue resolved via SS each tiem with inconsistent replies to the same issue, worded in the same way (we use a pro forma) eventually after pulling teeth a listing or two were reinstated, two weeks later, blocked for pricing violation. Head > wall > bang.
Someones ‘clever’ idea that doesn’t work, because presumably they didn’t undertand the marketplace; that used items for 10p are not comparable with new items and therefore shouldn’t determine price and that collectable values are determined by market demand. We have a competitor who is selling used as new at 50% below the RRP, this will determine both BB and a pricing violation. Sometimes unfortunately our hosts are really, really dense.
It is a joke, the system was better when the automated nonsense didn’t exist, but hey it keeps someone at Amazon towers employed I suppose.
Seller_FQHkqHJI5SqTh
And the seller, I use that term loosely, listing the £173 copy won’t actually have a copy.
Seller_p5u23GLvheD5W
Amazon are constantly price fixing my listings, forcing me to lower prices. Feels all very illegal to me.
