Potential duplicates
There is a new feature on our inventory page - ‘potential duplicates’. I hadn’t noticed it before & suspect that it is linked to the withdrawal of the facility to request a merge unless the item is in your inventory.
There were 60 new listings this morning; I was working through the list, marking as duplicate or not duplicate, & had done about 15 when I checked my own database for that particular SKU. The book had been sold in 2010. I checked the Amazon entry, & stock was showing as zero, but status was ‘active’.
It is obviously a waste of time to have to check each one - how can I remove all ‘sold’ items from my Amazon inventory? There are nearly 70000
8 replies
Seller_EJIX7rqDNQJi2
This feature has been there for a few months already.
Sellers can now easily confirm that their listings are duplicates and have them effortlessly merged together.
You will be getting alerts for any products listed in your inventory, regardless of their status or available quantity.
Seller_j4qOx3FnSoENm
It’s actually a bit of a mess.
I’ve had “potential” duplicates for products that have no possible way of being duplicates (different brands, different EANs, different colours).
So I don’t know what data they are using to suggest that a product is a duplicate
Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
I have not got it. Where do you see it?
Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
I am creating duplicates every day. When I need to send new toy inventory in I am having to create a new listing due to the change in labelling rules.
I then end up with 2 SKU’s until the original one sells out and can be deleted.
It takes me around 10 minutes to set up a new product by the time I have done it in 5 countries and set it up manually on my inventory management software (it is usually automatic).
Only just over 1000 to go. Good job I have got nothing else to be doing 5 weeks before December.
Seller_GGByEa9ThBuw8
We’ve been getting a lot of potential duplicate notifications lately. It’s a pain in the backside having to go through them all and mark them as not duplicates because variants of the same parent product are being flagged as potential duplicates. I wouldn’t expect Amazon to flag these up but they do.
