No, not just you.

Just to highlight the vaguery of Amazon's pricing policy: listed a copy of ISBN 9789774249013 at £83 a few weeks ago. At the time it was the only copy anywhere online. As expected it almost instantly spawned a listing by Paper Cavalier at getting on for twice the price.

Thought I'd sold it so closed the listing; PC's price jumped to £600+.

So who knows how it works.

There are two different problems - one caused by Amazon & the other by megasellers. The likes of WoB go in for aggressive automated price undercutting, which has rendered a lot of books worthless. I have seen a large hardback being offered for 70p with free shipping; even with the best postal contract and getting the book for virtually nothing they must lose money.

Amazon's 'potential price violation' program is designed for new goods; it takes no consideration or understanding of all the variables that influence the price of a O/P book. It should apply to new books only.

We give up with Amazon and their pricing policies. We upload everything to Amazon - those they reject so be it - we'll sell them elsewhere and Amazon will lose out on commission. Would rather sell elsewhere anyway.

It is happening loads recently. They are pushing lots of used book sellers over to Ebay with this stupid policy.

Just this afternoon I listed a book and was £30 cheaper than other sellers but it wouldn't let me list as it said I was too expensive and had to drop the price.

Glad you posted on this. Currently I have 7 books deactivated for being too high priced. NB 2 of these have no "reference" price so how does Amazon know they are too high??

If I sell books at the £2 or £3 that Amazon demands I will make no profit or even possibly a loss. Yet another example of Amazon/s monopolisitic manipulation of prices.

As has been pinted out, this drives sellers to Ebay and also sooner or later buyers will realise that prices are manipulated by Amazon.

Hi All,

I agree with all sellers commenting on the the frustrations this policy causes - I've just had a bulk seller undercut one of my books by 10% (including post) so had the dreaded 'potential pricing error' email.

But these sellers are in the USA and are offering a 10 day delivery for a large hardback for £3.99 which I find difficult to believe!

Something is going on...

All Best

Brian

I agree, there is no sense at all with any of this, but then it’s not humans doing it. And how do people get away with listing books which we all know are 30-40 years old as ‘New’ ?

Oh yes and the saga of PENGUIN BOOKS !

Some mega sellers jump on listings ALL the time

I spend more time moving my items around

I have sold on eBay for a while but never the same book on both

At least there I can block

Has anyone else noticed the usual suspects very seldom actually have a photo of any books they sell on eBay

I agree Amazon pricing for used books seem crackers. They seem to remove the listing for little reason. At the moment I only sell on Amazon and do not use any listing software. Maybe this might help me.

Cheers