Quick Tip: No Product ID
Hi Sellers,
Following on from our previous post about Product IDs this post will look at your options if you cannot locate a product ID on your items.
If your product does not have a standard product identifier such as a UPC, European Article Number (EAN), JAN or International Standard Book Number (ISBN), you can request it from the manufacturer. If you manufacture the product yourself, visit the GS1 standards website for more information.
If you are unable to obtain a product ID from the manufacturer and you do not manufacture the product yourself you can apply for a UPC exemption for your product’s category.
To learn how to list a product without a product ID and apply for a Global Trade Item Number exemption, check out this help page.
Our next Quick Tip will share the steps of how to apply for an exemption.
Quick Tip: No Product ID
Hi Sellers,
Following on from our previous post about Product IDs this post will look at your options if you cannot locate a product ID on your items.
If your product does not have a standard product identifier such as a UPC, European Article Number (EAN), JAN or International Standard Book Number (ISBN), you can request it from the manufacturer. If you manufacture the product yourself, visit the GS1 standards website for more information.
If you are unable to obtain a product ID from the manufacturer and you do not manufacture the product yourself you can apply for a UPC exemption for your product’s category.
To learn how to list a product without a product ID and apply for a Global Trade Item Number exemption, check out this help page.
Our next Quick Tip will share the steps of how to apply for an exemption.
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This has become a big problem for sellers of used books when attempting to list and/or edit older titles that were published before the universal adoption of the ISBN.
Basically, no books published prior to 1967 (and very few before 1970) have ISBNs.
Correcting Product Details and image errors (of which there are millions in the catalogue) used to be relatively easy but is now all but impossible.
Attempted corrections are almost always diverted to the 'brand registry' which is irrelevant for out-of-print books. It leads to numerous frustrating messages to CS to get even the most obvious errors to be notified to the catalogue department for correction.
