Over the weekend and today on my picking sheet there are products with errors of one type or another, either wrong colour, duplicated colour, wrong pack size, wrong description, wrong bullet points and in some cases a completely different image from the actual product. I have been going on about this for over 5 years, with seller support, seller performance and this forum, here are the facts:
1) Seller support have no ability to amend any incorrect listing even with proof
2) The catalogue team no longer communicate with seller support
3) Sellers cannot contact anyone in the catalogue team or anyone that has the ability to amend a listing.
4) Amazon state that only the entity that created the listing can amend it, no seller can correct an incorrect listing and this entity probably no longer exists.
The result of this is millions of listings on Amazon that have errors, sellers know what these errors are and can do nothing about it, Amazon are knowingly causing buyers inconvenience by letting them purchase products that are incorrectly described and who gets the blame? The seller of course with a defect.
I estimate that 30% of the Amazon catalogue has errors and nobody can do anything about it.
Some sales I will cancel this morning, others I will remove from sale and some I will try and contact the buyer, but as Amazon has opted out all buyers from receiving messages I don't expect a reply.
So this is why the title is 'Amazon should hang their heads in shame' as a company that knowingly allows buyers to be misled despite sellers trying to amend these listings should do so.
All this requires is a person with a bit of common sense to come up with a policy that allows sellers to change listings providing they can supply 100% proof that an error exists in the listing, why would they not want to do that and make the catalogue accurate?
There are plenty of people in Amazon who seem to spend time changing things that do not need to be changed, so how about some of these people put to work actually changing what does need to be changed?
I know of no other company that I have dealt with over the last 45 years that knowingly allow there to be issues in their business and refuse to address them.
As usual nothing will happen, but I feel a bit less frustrated in having once again given my opinion.