I have entered a 1972 rare Penguin Classic at £5.25( 1 is acceptable at circa£1.90 ,another good at £5.00) Mine is vg and Amazon suggest a price of about £1.90 to approx £2.30.This is ridiculous.It Will cost £2.10 to post so I would lose heavily on this.What are Amazon doing? I know people suggest that Amazon want us to match EBay but it’s impossible to price a book so low.More madness and the day approaches when a decent charity will get some very good and rare books.

As a fellow bookseller I have this all the time - basically they do not understand the market for rare books. The only way round it is to list as collectible, but then it will unlikely not be found by buyers as they don't check the collectible category !

I previously created a discussion where I explained my problem, but no one from Amazon helped me.

My account has been inactive for almost 3 months.

Even though I do my best, I cannot solve this problem.

I submitted dozens of different appeals.

I get the same email response and rejection every time.

I am a new seller with no sales yet.

If I unknowingly made a mistake while creating my account, I am ready to correct this mistake, but no one contacts me.

You have no right to push new sellers like me out of Amazon like this, without any explanation, by deactivating their accounts and then without providing any help in resolving this issue.

I spent money and effort for this job. And I've been waiting for 3 months to get help.

You have no right to treat me like a criminal!

If I made a mistake unknowingly, you must give me the opportunity to correct it.

I am not an expert on Amazon, as I said before, I am a new seller so I may have made a mistake when setting up my account.

You have no right to disable me like this just because I made a mistake.

I ship a number of items into FBA by placing them directly onto the pallet without extra boxing.

These SKUs are already in their own cardboard boxes with barcodes etc.

I am now being instructed that each of these should now have an FBA box ID label on them. I have previously had a problem of amazon opening these units up and having a box label would seem to make this more likely to reoccur.

Does this apply if all the boxes on the pallet are the same SKU? I sometimes send 150, 3kg, 10cm x 16cm x 28cm SKUs on one pallet and these have not had the same problem. Can the pallet still just have 4 pallet labels and be labelled single SKU.

Some of the pallets we send are oversize items (93cm x 10cm x 10cm) these do not seem to have the same issue when we send in pallets either single SKU pallets or with mixed SKUs. However seller support seems to say these should have box labels too. This would mean all our warehouse stock would have to be completely restacked to label them!

It seems strange and decidedly against modern environmental policies to be asked to print 40 or 50 A4 sheets of labels for each pallet especially if all the items are identical.

All our items are branded and are unique to us as a seller.

Anyone have similar issues sending in larger items in bulk or whole pallet loads of one item?

This is an ongoing issue that needs immediate attention. I am going to tag some other sellers that seem to be facing similar issues and hopefully, collectively we can escalate this.

There are certain brands that this seems to be a bigger issue in our catalogue but I would also say that no brand is safe. The main issues are, variations going missing overnight with no trace or explanation and vital attributes missing and we do not have permission to add these back.

Missing variations

I want to clearly outline some of the issues with the removal of variations. For clarity the variations that were being removed were random. There was no similarity in category or brand and it was never the entire brand or entire category.

• Error 5461 - Consistently receiving this error and the response from seller support has been different every time. The previous batch where we had this issue, we were granted safety listing for a period of time. Upload would still see the errors coming through but we were able to manually create variations. These stuck for about a week before breaking again
• Error 5461 round 2 - We are now being asked to submit seller applications to remove error 5461, this does not make sense as we would have submitted this application when we created the SKUs. Some of these were created 4+ years ago. The documents are old now so we would have to reach out to renew them which can take time. As I am sure many sellers and mods will sympathise with here, no one in the company is interested in spending time gathering this information just for the application approval to come through and not solving the issue.
• Error 8032 - We are also seeing SKUs still attached to the parent that was removed. We have been told to add the parent ASIN to then delete and I'm sure you are already seeing the irony in this, but we are not approved to create variations as the same upload would have outlined, so we are going around in circles with this issue.

Missing Attributes

At the moment the main missing attributes are colour and size

• Error 90004401 - We are consistently seeing this error that the colour or size has not been entered even though I will attached screenshots of the upload file as well as the upload file to show that this was in fact included when it was uploaded. I did manage to get on the phone and someone who outlined that the reason why we are getting this error even tho the information is there is because we are not approved.

It is impossible to sell like this and it affects some of our best-selling brands. Seller support seems just as confused as the sellers sometimes and cases go around and around with automated replies outlining why we are seeing errors and little to nothing is done about how to remove the errors.

More clarity is needed on why some variations are randomly being removed and why are some brand permissions are being revoked without warning.

An example of one of the cases I have opened is ID 9911665042

I have so many broken listings now - it makes the amazon catalogue just look ridiculous

Literally identical to my situation, but I list via a third party and I don't even know how to do the flat files. I've been selling on Amazon for 12 years I think, never had any problems re parent / children before. It's ludicrous. They allow the children to be fixed but the parent is forever stuck in a 'this parent has inconsistent product classification to its children' nightmare.

I have this issue literally every week. My issue is with the colour and I get the below error:

'[color]' is required but not supplied

This is on ASIN's that have been selling for literal years where I have sold 1000's. The colour is always there filled out when you manually go into the ASIN, but its highlighted in red like there is no data there.

The usual fix is uploading multiple flat files after getting brand approval once again. This is to fix the color field and re-create the parent/child variation. I have a folder with flat files ready nowadays so I don't have to spend hours re-creating them each time.

I suspect they are all breaking when Amazon remove my brand approval because I have created the ASIN's and they are exclusive to myself.

I have a certain brand I sell where I have been approved 5 times since the 17th May 2024. Something is seriously broken with brand applications.

I just hope Amazon fix this glitch because it's sickening logging into Amazon to see 100+ supressed products of my best selling lines to then spend 3 days jumping through hoops for brand approval while losing sales, sales ranks and my own sanity.

I aim to not let my stock fall below a months worth at any one time.

I agree with Disenchanted_Seller comments - the 'restock inventory' is useful but use your own judgement as well. I look at the 'days of supply' and send more inventory in when it gets to about 40 days - I don't tend to use the recommended replenishment amount because they seem to like 90 days worth.

You could have an FBM offer still available as well, at least at first, while you try it - that way you wont go out of stock.

I am an FBM seller with decades of experience but am fed up with Royal Mail "losing" inventory or delivering late or not at all.

Therefore we have decided to go to the dark side ,FBA.

I have been looking at Seller University videos and reading as much as I can but there doesn't seem to be much guidance on how much inventory to send. Mine is simple, a small range of SKUs which can be boxed up easily to be sent in small boxes to Fulfilment centre.

By my reckoning sending a month's worth of product would seem a reasonable amount to send to FBA, is this right - too much or too little?

Any experienced answers appreciated.

Thanks in advance