Potential High Pricing
I have started a new thread re. this issue again, as have just received yet another listing deactivation for 'potential high pricing'. Absolutely ridiculous deactivation. My item (a book) is priced at £24.95 in 'Very Good' condition (it actually is almost like new, but I do always try and describe accurately), yet there is one listed as just 'Good' for £71.64 ! Admittedly that one is listed as Collectible , so these do not get deactivated, but there is really nothing collectible about it ! - they have obviously just listed it as such so they can list at a high price. This makes me SO angry.
Potential High Pricing
I have started a new thread re. this issue again, as have just received yet another listing deactivation for 'potential high pricing'. Absolutely ridiculous deactivation. My item (a book) is priced at £24.95 in 'Very Good' condition (it actually is almost like new, but I do always try and describe accurately), yet there is one listed as just 'Good' for £71.64 ! Admittedly that one is listed as Collectible , so these do not get deactivated, but there is really nothing collectible about it ! - they have obviously just listed it as such so they can list at a high price. This makes me SO angry.
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Seller_FQHkqHJI5SqTh
Sold my copy of ISBN 0993216412 on Ebay a few weeks ago. Was listed on Amazon for £39.50 freepost.
Noticed the only other 'copy' for sale is listed by one of the usual suspects at £841.83. Is free postage though.
Who knows how this works?
Seller_ZVAz3d5lZuGid
I also wonder why they do not deactivate ones listed as collectable, as too many sellers just list as that to get round deactivations, and it is so obvious that many of them are not really collectable at all. I should be a level playing field. Many buyers do not even look at the collectable filter .
(Wondering ? - do you use collectible or collectable ??! - Amazon don't like collectable ! - maybe more used in US ?)
Seller_nT7psArrIHc2I
This happens all the time now. Surely this is price fixing? Drives me up the wall. Funny thing is I list these same items on Ebay and they all sell.
Seller_SooKfqYdUflLd
I read somehere that lowering your price and then raising it again gradually works
Seller_AlYpsVHv0gj21
This is yet another issue at Amazon that has been brought up many times. Nobody at Amazon -including the mods- seems to care.
You regularly see certain booksellers with ridiculously high prices for their books (often books they they dont actually have) . I'm certain you know which sellers I am talking about. How do they manage to avoid amazon's "fair pricing" policy?
Sellers must be allowed to set their own prices. If Amazon insist on having a pricing policy then it should have a "unfairly low price" rule as well as a high price rule
Seller_SooKfqYdUflLd
What is the defintion of "Collectable" btw in our and Amazons defintion ?
Seller_ZVAz3d5lZuGid
I have just spent ages trying to find Amazon's definition, and finally found it :
Collectible books
Must be signed, a limited first edition, out of print or have other desirable qualities that could reasonably be assumed to increase the book’s value to a collector – you will have an opportunity to say why.
This could include:
First editions and first printings
Signed, inscribed or scarce copies
Advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs of out-of-print books
Seller_1Pr83SwcQbIUJ
The out of print reason, means I tend to list most of mine as collectable if stopped for potential high price violations. This is one of the most annoying things on Amazon and must admit that in the last 12 months, I've gone from selling 80% Amazon, 20 % ebay to roughly 45% Amazon 55 % Ebay now
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Seller_ZVAz3d5lZuGid
Yes, I have many of mine listed as collectible, for that and the other reasons, but do find that they don't often sell, as I am sure that many buyers (unless they know well the ins and outs of Amazon search) rarely look in the collectible filter.
My other bugbear is - How do 'Mersea' list books without being deactivated when mine is, for eg. £7.95 and some of theirs are over £50 etc. - do they have some sort of dispensation ?!
Seller_QIfMqKDNjs4wc
We do the same -relist as collectable if the item has been removed for ' high pricing ', but the main issue as you say, is how do Mersea etc manage to have theirs listed at such high prices and not have them removed?
Theirs are not listed as collectable - usually just 'good'.
We have hundreds of items delisted for high pricing randomly by Amazon - all of which have been way cheaper than their offers.
It is impossible to keep up with these random delistings.
Seller_AlYpsVHv0gj21
Congratulations on finding this!
This ,to my mind, is a typical completely ambiguous Amazon definition.
Does it mean it must be signed and a limited first edition and out of print. Or does it mean any one of these three things. If just being out of print makes it "collectable" then I must have a very valuable storeroom of books!!
Two of the "other" desirable qualities seem to be the same as the "must be".
I may be wrong about this but aren't proof copies one of the things that Amazon don't allow? I find trying to find information like this on Amazon to be near impossible so I cannot confirm that this is true.
I believe that having a separate category for "Collectable" should be scrapped. It is simply impossible to define properly
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
Just to add, from that link to condition guidelines, it states the following near the top of the page:
Unacceptable and prohibited items
...Items in any of the following conditions are unacceptable for listing on Amazon.co.uk
Item was originally distributed as a promotional copy, promotional bundle, product sample or advance reading copy. This includes uncorrected proofs of in-print or not-yet-published books.
I have quite a few proofs that are more than fifty years old but they are all still in print!
I wonder if by 'in print' they really mean not yet 'public domain'?
Speaking of which, I'm fed up with seeing all these dodgy public domain PoDs that now litter the catalogue.
They usually have slightly sickly descriptions like this:
This classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations...
Seller_J2H5GprhaORbt
I sell ceramics ,
and we are constantly having this issue and there seems to be nothing we can do about it
for example we can sell a single egg cup (for £12
but we can not sell 4 egg cups of the same design for £32.95 as the price is potentially high.
I believe the word Potential high price should mean that you should be able to go and check and state no it is not. or oops made an error .
When I look at my Amazon account health , there is a whole list of items now been de activated
The worst one is when we sell in several different counties and the price is ok in one but not the other
Seller_TA4N8tPN5wjCJ
Just had another ridiculous one, £10.95 for a hardback delisted, whilst the paperback is on offer from multiple sources ( not TUS) at £26 !
But what i;d really like to know is how the highly priced items come to be shown prominently on the first search page, and it takes persistent searching ( and good eyesight!) to find the other copies available at more reasonable prices. That's hardly looking after the customer...
Seller_zyM900Clo4ITD
Ive had a few items deactivated so far due to (potential high pricing) of products that only i manufacture, under my brand that i keep locked down.
Dumb bots that have NO place in what we do or price our listings at, actively causing harm by knocking listings offline.
As usual from Amazon.
Seller_SooKfqYdUflLd
Why are we being told what prices to set for our things ?
If the price is too high people won't buy
It's wrong to deacativate when they think its too high, yes advise us, that's a good idea
