I manufacture and sell printed children’s clothing and I have several colour variations for each design. I have pink T-shirts (most likely to be bought for girls), blue (most likely to be bought for boys) and grey (unisex). However I have just discovered that all child variations of a product must have the same browse nodes as their parent product. Therefore for each design I have to chose either “T-shirt Boys” or “T-shirt Girls” browse nodes for all variations, which means I end up with pink T-shirts with the “T-shirt Boys” browse node and blue T-shirts with the “T-shirt Girls” node. This obviously means that some of my pink T-shirts are not listing in the girls department (because they have boys T-shirt browse nodes) and vice versa. On top of this, I also sell grey which are popular for both boys and girls.

It’s ridiculous that Amazon hasn’t accounted for this as I imagine it’s a common problem. They have suggested that I split the listings so I have the pink and blue listing as separate items and I can then attribute the relevant node to each colour (I’m not sure what they expect me to do with the grey). I would prefer not to do this however as it would mean doubling my listings and would split all my product reviews and potentially harm the product rankings.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a suitable solution? I’d appreciate any advice.

Thanks.