This is a minor change, but apparently a not well-publicized one. We have two entities, one that owns the trademarks and copyrights, and is the manufacturer, and another set up to be the Amazon seller. So, there needs to be a grant of this authority, via emails sent and acknowledged.
(The Amazon seller entity is a “disposable” LLC, that, in the event of Amazon deciding to terminate the relationship for some vague reason, is easily replaced with a new arms-length seller LLC).
Just a heads up, yesterday absolutely was the last day to send UPC assigned inventory unless you’re the brand owner.
Amazon’s various announcements are incongruous.
Policy depends on where you read it.
First 2 samples are in the same email:
further down in the email it says after March 31, sounds like today is the last day. But it’s not.
Link in email to As previously announced page says on or after:
I guess we have to dig for the whole truth.
There was a very good poster/seller in the old forums, username was Shadow, he would get so mad over the idea of brand owners using or benefiting from fnskus. He always defended the use of the upc even at the risk of commingling saying “it’s my barcode that I pay for”
Miss him, and so many other good posters. What a waste what Amazon did to the forums.
He wasn’t wrong.
this confused me greatly!
none of my listings have manufacturers barcodes. my supplier doesn’t use them. i purchased them from Speedy, not GS1. i don’t have brand registry for my business and my supplier doesn’t sell retail anywhere.
any ideas on what i should do? would opening a case help any??
If none of your stuff has bar codes, you will simply keep using the FNSKU labels for FBA.
I updated the title category to point to FBA.
they are refusing shipments that have always been FNSKU.
I changed the title to show this is an FBA issue.
Not for us. It is clearly written in the verbiage
In our experience of only 4 ASIN’s the change meant we cannot send in the items using UPC’s anymore so we had employees go out and put FNSKU labels on the items. We did this years ago so we simply had to revert back to labeling ourselves.
I would suggest making a new SKU of the affected ASIN, and select FBA and see where it takes you. Or you could simply switch it from FBA to FBM and back to FBA and see if it automatically fixes it for you.
I don’t understand the above. I worry that I am missing something.
If a manufacturer (or his sock-puppet brand representative seller entity) has a UPC, they should certainly get first dibs on using their own UPC code as the sole product identifier for that product within Amazon. Resellers should each have unique product identifiers, so FNSKUs all around. That avoids the co-mingling problem, and protects the manufacturer from having reimported gray-market goods and counterfeits from being blamed on him. Each would have an FNSKU, as it came from someone else, someone other than the manufacturer. One assumes that products from 3rd parties without an FNSKU and only a barcode would be force-labeled by Amazon or rejected by Amazon and subject to a mandatory removal order.
Why and how would a brand owner “benefit” from FNSKUs?
That was exactly his point
Manufacturer should be allowed to use the barcode and everybody else the FNSKU
He complained that it was just another insult that Amazon offered, why would the original product commingle if it came from the manufacturer? The GS1 from the person who pays for it should be good enough
I’m glad that it’s finally the case
These shipments were sent labeled with the same FNSKU’s?
Yikes - do we need new FNSKUs for inventory that already had FNSKU’s assigned??
Also, The notice says: Any inventory sent without Amazon Barcode stickers for shipments created after this date will be processed as defective upon receive.
I guess processed as defective = refusal to accept the shipment.
Nope… its is pretty clear…
If you are already using these stickers, you can continue to follow your existing process. ”
More likely, they will receive it, then force you to do a removal order before they dispose of it.
