RRP was good for 5 minutes then all the factories are posting fake (HIGH) RRP!
So I was really happy we could post RRP, but only for 5 minutes!
My situation example. I have been selling an item for over a year at £20. I reduce the price to hopefully drive sales to £14.99 and it shows RRP£20, price £14.99…great.
Factory selling competing item. They have been selling it for £12.99 for ever basically. Now they are showing RRP £23.99 and selling for £12.99.
This is a blatent lie. Half my products which I have entered the true RRP (price I have been selling for and tried to reduce the sell price don’t even show the RRP and these people are making it up as they go. Just another example of Amazon creating an uneven playing field.
Shouldn’t Amazon be looking at the sale price for last 12 months or even the last month? Or can we just make up our RRP?
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
If its the same factory you buy from, ask them …
If the RRP was set over a year ago, maybe they’ve increased it due to costs / inflation ?!
Seller_qZO3ZCjoBXEeL
If you feel it is genuinely misleading then
Seller_tvSKAVDVwnvb5
Guys can I ask that anyone who is incentivised to reply by Amazon in anyway not answer our posts. I don’t have a load of time to play ping pong. And bullying won’t work here 
its just proof in the pudding of what ive been saying all along. Everyone knows off it!
Seller_fpHJMMwn649ll
I was sure I read somewhere, way back, in Amazon Brand Registry (maybe!) that Amazon attempt to validate RRP’s against whatever website you submit for your brand. This would be an easy validation in many cases since my website, for example, makes the EAN readily available in the XML, so as long as my website RRP is same or higher than the RRP I’ve submitted in Amazon, it works.
So, if you extend that thought out to your example; if Amazon can validate an RRP from a verifiable external website then it is, therefore, ‘valid’. If your competitor are indeed the factory (and presumably the ‘brand’ in Amazon’s eyes) then RRP’s are validating against a website they control?
Having said that, there must be a lot of RRP’s on Amazon that are not validating to anywhere externally, from what I see day-to-day!
Seller_2IqU6eYHmCUaV
As a Retailer for over 30 years . Be very cafeful with setting RRPs as it may come under Resale price maintenance (RPM) rules.
I’ve included a link to the Government site that explains it in more depth.
Seller_fYYUuUwNW67U3
RRP = recommended retail price. It doesn’t mean anything. Manufacturers and retailers can set their prices, RRP or sale prices, at will.
Seller_3MG8s4ZSSaP8Z
As per my experience, Set your sale price expiry date 12 months from start date. For example if your sale start date is starting from today 29th March 2023 then set expiry date 29th march 2024. Hopefully it’ll work for you.
Seller_WIndmNYDp7rQF
There house there rules, dont like it? go somewhere else, simples.
Seller_SHpe5c4eREBFN
I got an email today asking me to add RRP to various products. Two observations:
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Strangely Amazon also sell some of those products so why haven’t they added the RRP themselves?
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Some of these products I’ve been told I cannot edit (Correct) the listing because it is controlled by the Brand Owner yet they want me to add the RRP! Wonder why the Brand Owner hasn’t added the RRP?
