Mary Whitehouse is alive and well and patrolling the Amazon Catalogue
I have just received a number of violations on my account for products that are not permitted to be listed on Amazon.
All of them include the forbidden word SEX - included in the offensive items list are a DVD of the SEX Pistols and the 1973 comedy No Sex Please we are British.
Are any of the other media sellers being hit by this?
I submitted an appeal as soon as I became aware this was happening but it looks like the Mary Bot is still on the war path as violations are still appearing on my Account Health page.
Mary Whitehouse is alive and well and patrolling the Amazon Catalogue
I have just received a number of violations on my account for products that are not permitted to be listed on Amazon.
All of them include the forbidden word SEX - included in the offensive items list are a DVD of the SEX Pistols and the 1973 comedy No Sex Please we are British.
Are any of the other media sellers being hit by this?
I submitted an appeal as soon as I became aware this was happening but it looks like the Mary Bot is still on the war path as violations are still appearing on my Account Health page.
42 replies
Seller_5CABst5Fbh4YS
Seven DVD's with SEX in the title removed from Amazon's Catalogue and My listings 4th April 2024, so frustrating
Seller_AJxxLujbGDqaW
The issue here is that there is no human intervention and I include seller support in that, these bots are allowed to run riot and nobody is monitoring them.
You can be assured that in the last 18 months about 40% of the Amazon catalogue has been removed and the majority of these should not have been.
Add them to all the listings that contain incorrect information that nobody will change and the catalogue team really have important questions to answer.
Julia_Amzn
Hello @Seller_FZJiyCoTnOJZs,
Thank you for this call out.
Did you receive an answer to your appeal?
Best,
Julia.
Seller_mxez2L8QjE6WW
Bots rule, OK? For some reason, they think that the classic 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by T.E Lawrence contains offensive material. Pillars, eh? nudge, nudge, wink, wink. And as for anything with Essex or Scunthorpe in the title ....
Seller_it5XEm2mve4J0
We had a shark character sleeping bag removed because apparently it contained shark's teeth which are a forbidden item to sell on Amazon...
Just to clarify it's made of fleece fabric and is for kids....
Seller_1Pr83SwcQbIUJ
sex and the city boxset removed, although to be fair I was quite embarrassed to be selling it :)
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
That's bizarre, especially as the DVD section appears to contain loads of p*rn videos, many of which are possibly illegal in the UK. Just type the word 'h*rdcore' into DVD search - some vile looking stuff shows up. It's not only Mary W who would have been disgusted...
In fact many inocent words will bring up similar stuff, as anyone who manually lists lots of DVDs using using title search will know. I guess the sm*t merchants have flooded their products with bogus keywords.
As ever, it seems Amazon's right hand doesn't what its left hand is up to ( ooh err).
Things got very silly during the height of woke protests when things like Fawlty Towers were banned and it looks like the bots are at it again. A pity they don't have the (artificial) intelligence to root out the really nasty stuff.
(I had to edit out certain 'offensive' words to post this...the bots are everywhere :( )
Seller_bzRkeDMMsE3Is
The same happened with anything with the word 'police' in the title last year, for some bizarre reason that I never understood.
Seller_7Gzk2DXnerEBv
SO HAVE I ITS RIDICULOUS
can we get this sorted out PLEASE amazon
sex and the city movie par one and two i have them stranded at fba
its comedy! come on what's going on!
yet someone is selling actual porn in the search engine whish is still there
they are using one word to clean it up but its lazy and it does not work
Seller_ca4x7NeUTM8MJ
Yup. The excellent Spanish film, Sex and Lucia
