HIGH PRICING ERROR PROGRAM NEEDS TO STOP
I am drowning in High Price Error inactive listings. How does seller support decide a $300+ item sold elsewhere can only be sold on Amazon for no more than $11.76?
ASIN B0042B3EOM Case ID 15308521921
HIGH PRICING ERROR PROGRAM NEEDS TO STOP
I am drowning in High Price Error inactive listings. How does seller support decide a $300+ item sold elsewhere can only be sold on Amazon for no more than $11.76?
ASIN B0042B3EOM Case ID 15308521921
39 replies
Seller_KrIZiAqW5Ddf0
I wish I had some advice for you (or even an explanation) but this* seems to be what Amazon has become.
*By "this" I mean situations created by pricing bots, requiring permission from publishers to sell used books, making it difficult to create new listings, etc.
Seller_5PVnrPSumFtgg
It actually goes against the concept of "Free Markets". A seller should be able to offer their product at ANY price they like. A buyer can opt to buy or not to buy.
This high price pricing error is just another way Amazon puts pressure on Sellers to reduce prices.
Seller_IZ5lvEic6oGAx
This is actually exactly the kind of item Amazon's anti price-gouging system is supposed to trigger on. They should limit it to about $50, not $12, but asking hundreds is just customer abuse and should be left to places like Ebay.
Seller_HP0CuTSNvJvu9
First of all, inflation since 2020 has products up across all industries 200-500% in that time span. That is a fact. If anyone is willfully blind to that fact, go back and look at receipts from 2019. The bots need to account for that.
Second, a price is too high when no will buy it. End of story. Amazon is letting a lot of seller fees slip through their fingers by manipulating the market.
If Amazon thinks my price is too high, that my reasonable expectations of profit are unreasonable, I sell it somewhere else. Amazon's loss NOT mine.
Seller_keSnEDesLFVwv
But scammers will easily eat up that difference when you sell electronics on Amazon.
Seller_GPyQzL3sXyw6L
We had a similar issue with one product and it had nothing to do with the price being competitive.
If you are using Amazon's repricing tool and do not have the high and low price set properly ALONG with the repricing rule itself, you will also get a listing error. Check that to make sure the prices are set accordingly.
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
The Fair Pricing bot is a joke; it is a poorly programmed piece of garbage and then Amazon filled it with absurdly incorrect data. Like you said where are they getting their comps from? I have seen them price match OOS items from small websites; not sure how OOS is a valid comp but this is Amazon we are talking about.
Seller_U2iypJCercyzc
It's insane, isn't it.
They wanted me to price a $900 item at $83.97.
When I brought this to their attention, the brain trust at Seller Central told me, "That's what our machine learning priced it at."
Thanks, Hal Patel.
Seller_7iQjFTabKHqyC
we have an on going issue with price fixing. Move along if you can.
We price our products to include free econ. Shipping because they sell so much better, but Amazons bots can not account for this despite having the information or accounting for price changes over time. We researched one of the prices and with the manufacturer determined it was over 10 years old and no where was it selling at that price.
we have letters from manufacturers that allow us to sell over the MSRP due to e-commerce selling costs. Amazon ignores this.
Seller_yYmMTCwJZOpvV
They are being sued under this issue. Say I am the only seller of this unit as I'm the only authorized vender.
Since amazon fees are the highest of all the platforms I would do a discount to match the lower fees on the other platforms.
You think that be great correct? No amazon scans through other platforms and if you lower the price other places it will give you a violation and not allow to sell it unless you lower to match the price on other platforms. "what I have done is increased the price to match amazon then they will remove it under 24 hours."
That just doesn't feel right. It feels like a monopoly controlling the price of something.
Seller_TToWcvXoE78sN
I brought this up to the Asst. AG in Washington State. Had a conference call with them and provided lots of information over the course of about 30-45 minutes. This was about 1 year ago. Obviously, they did nothing.
