Just had 4500 books made inactive because they need approval
Hello,
We've been selling on amazon for a very long time, had over 20,000 books online. For some reason today, about 4500 books, from a huge variety of publishers, are requiring approvals to be sold used. There is no rhyme or reason to the selection of books that became inactive. The oldest books were put on amazon 3 months ago.
Any other book sellers seeing this? When requesting approval, they are asking for documentation. Obviously we don't have that since they are used books we buy from home buys and people selling to us directly at our store.
Any Moderators can help? No idea where all this came from.
thank you
Just had 4500 books made inactive because they need approval
Hello,
We've been selling on amazon for a very long time, had over 20,000 books online. For some reason today, about 4500 books, from a huge variety of publishers, are requiring approvals to be sold used. There is no rhyme or reason to the selection of books that became inactive. The oldest books were put on amazon 3 months ago.
Any other book sellers seeing this? When requesting approval, they are asking for documentation. Obviously we don't have that since they are used books we buy from home buys and people selling to us directly at our store.
Any Moderators can help? No idea where all this came from.
thank you
41 replies
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
I've noticed over the last day or two an uptick in the number of publishers that require invoices in order to list (and not textbook publishers; just regular books you might see on the shelf of B&N).
But I've not seen active listings deactivated.
Seller_a8Dy8GChiqVXo
This is all it shows.
You need approval to sell:
Books in New, Used, Refurbished, Collectible condition(s)
Request approval
However we are not accepting applications to sell:
Other Collectible Books category in Refurbished condition(s)
No mention of publisher or anything, very random.
We've of course had specific publishers request us to get approval, takes 5 seconds and we are approved. This is something else.
Seller_rTBWL2OeoixkP
They've been doing this to a lot of us and it's getting ridiculous. It happened to me and I don't sell books.
Brands I've been selling for years, which I have active inventory of, all of a sudden, regated. I ask other sellers, SMALLER AND NEWER than myself (i've been on this godforsaken platform 10 years now) and they're wide open on these brands.
Amazon just gets worse every year. More and more problems. It never ends.
You're not alone. And obviously seller "support" has no clue as usual.
Seller_LVZcgxAgZ2xBv
Are you sure? Check the parent company of the imprints. Check also if there are trademarks listed on the cover or copyright page.
There are four or five U.S. publishers who control most of the market for professionally published books, and they may have opted for some form of gating for their imprints/brands on Amazon.
Media sales used to be the wild west on Amazon, but in the past 10 years Amazon has really clamped down on third party sales, particularly for music and movies. Part of the reason relates to demands from giant media conglomerates, but there is also a big problem with some sellers misrepresenting the condition or selling counterfeit CDs, game media, and books.
Seller_EhfgFhfsOh8gF
Not sure why we can't sell things that we own in the land of the free.
