Retrospective GTIN Exemption
Hey all, hoping somebody can help!
We sell personalised gifts, all designed and made by us in house, and already have GTIN exemption for most categories. The thing is, we had already subscribed to GS1 and bought barcodes years before we applied for the exemption, and are now left with many products with GTINs associated with them.
Times are pretty tough for us at the minute, and our annual licensing bill from GS1 has led us to ask the question - do we really need to keep paying for it?
I'm aware that if we just let it lapse Amazon will eventually remove all of our listings with GTINs attached. I'm therefore hoping there's a way that I can apply for GTIN exemption for an existing product.
I appreciate any and all help! Please and thank you
Retrospective GTIN Exemption
Hey all, hoping somebody can help!
We sell personalised gifts, all designed and made by us in house, and already have GTIN exemption for most categories. The thing is, we had already subscribed to GS1 and bought barcodes years before we applied for the exemption, and are now left with many products with GTINs associated with them.
Times are pretty tough for us at the minute, and our annual licensing bill from GS1 has led us to ask the question - do we really need to keep paying for it?
I'm aware that if we just let it lapse Amazon will eventually remove all of our listings with GTINs attached. I'm therefore hoping there's a way that I can apply for GTIN exemption for an existing product.
I appreciate any and all help! Please and thank you
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Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh
Its very much guesswork - but I imagine if you did cancel GS1 you'd need to create new listings for the none barcoded items.
Not 100% what happens if you lapse your GS1 account either. Obviously GS1 eventually recycle the barcodes. Its definitely occurred in posts here in the past where a customer has attempted to list an item with a GS1 barcode and the EAN is already in use on Amazon on a completely different product. So its possible at some point in the future - the listing will become something completely different, or more likely amazon will just not allow the new owner of the barcode to actually list an item against the EAN
