Yet another seller frustrated over "listing deactivated due to potential high pricing error"
Just frustrated over the hundreds of potential high pricing errors our company gets. When I go to try to "fix the issue" I see other sellers have the exact same product listed for a MUCH HIGHER price than we have listed... so why are they allowed to list a product for such a high price and my meager price gets deactivated because it is too high. Even more frustrating is when the product is deactivated and there are no other sellers that have the product except us and the item is out of print; Examples: ASIN # B003AFL72W our price is $7.99 - no other listings available and the product is out of print.
Yet another seller frustrated over "listing deactivated due to potential high pricing error"
Just frustrated over the hundreds of potential high pricing errors our company gets. When I go to try to "fix the issue" I see other sellers have the exact same product listed for a MUCH HIGHER price than we have listed... so why are they allowed to list a product for such a high price and my meager price gets deactivated because it is too high. Even more frustrating is when the product is deactivated and there are no other sellers that have the product except us and the item is out of print; Examples: ASIN # B003AFL72W our price is $7.99 - no other listings available and the product is out of print.
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Seller_keSnEDesLFVwv
Older listings are grandfathered in. The pricing bot is only activated when you try to list. It is truly stupid to do it that way, but they do.
For that particular book, I would list it on eBay for 25 dollars.
Seller_9tyECqnuxPUwF
Are yours all immediately turning into pricing violations that won't drop off like mine recently haven't..
Seller_8bKTbjGobJoAL
Not exactly true. I've had items that I listed years before this inept policy was initiated and I still get high price errors on them.
Seller_utAN8Zq9UAwVc
My biggest frustration with doing business on Amazon. I especially hate when they suspend Christmas items for being to high price in July and then it carries over to the holiday season and there is no inventory but they will not allow me to sell it with a modest profit. It is frequently fundamentally wrong and unfair.
Seller_hB7z6KRp3zrRU
How is this for Amazon bot stupidity? I had two identical copies of a book (same price). Last week I get an email from Amazon that one had sold. 13 minutes later I get another email from Amazon stating that my second copy had been delisted because of a high pricing error.
This is a regular occurrence when I sell a book on eBay. Within an hour I get an email from Amazon saying my remaining copies are priced too high. I don't know how Amazon bots know that I sold something elsewhere but they do and they punish me for it.
Older listing are most definitely NOT grandfathered in.
Diversify on other platforms!
Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
I like when the products I sell from my brand, with an effectively enforced MAP, are delisted and the pricing page says "no reference price; suggestion: enroll in automate pricing." What price would you possibly automate to if your bots failed to get a reference price? This platform is straight up retardy now.
Seller_pM8JBB0f7spt1
First of all book sales in Amazon is not a straight forward process. Checking the given ASIN B003AFL72W this music sheet has not been sold on Amazon. See the Keepa info. Sales rank is N/A sold quantity is N/A. This doesn't mean it won't sell but statically speaking 99% it won't. So listing here does not make sense at all. Second, the listing price is $2.99 Even if Amazon let's you list it for $7.99 it won't gve you the buy box since your price will be way over than the referance price, $2.99. Third, the high price error occurs according to the last sales value or the average sales price (notsure on this) It can't be X times higer than the last sales of the item price. Only sell what sells is the key in books.
Seller_NaEy7NOsIT9d8
I see this all the time and often the item is listed in a worse condition.
Seller_Nmq8J08fnpZ4R
I have a book from 1944 I am trying to sell for $3.99 and amazon says the price is too high and I should sell it for $0.85. Why won't amazon get rid of the software that does this? Amazon could be losing a great deal of money by banning these "high priced sales". How dumb is that? Some one said sell the book as collectible but the bot inactivates that too for too high a price, so I just list it on e-bay and amazon loses its commission.....dumb....dumb...dumb
Seller_8heIxAf1mLwgp
You can try selecting Collectible instead of Used when listing. It should have some collectible attributes though - signed, first ed, out of print or something.
Been through the same, amazon won't let me sell for a good price, would rather have none available.
