Seems to be something new.
They are turning my titles from something simple to something very complex.
There is a square that shows up on your homepage. You can click on it and it takes you to the download to review page.
You can then submit feedback.
So far this seems to be, what else can Amazon do to waste my time.
We experienced that on one item in December. The AI suggestion was definitely wrong and we submitted the feedback as such. The listing was left alone.
Related to that was notification that Amazon was changing our categories on our products starting the first week in December 2024. As of now, only two have actually changed. Amazon supposedly was getting rid of the category sub node that we were in. It still exists. Once we get 3 more compliance issues done with, we are going to see if an excel upload will get the two that were move back into where they were (if it seems like the category sub node is staying).
You mean a widget? I donât see this widget on my homepage, and this makes me glad. But if you have it, then it is coming and this makes me sad. There is nothing I can do about and it will trash my listings and this makes me mad.
This appears to be something similar to what they USED to do when any changes were being made to ASINs that we had listed or had sold at any point in time.
That stopped a few years ago â about the time the invading hoards from âoffshoreâ arrived and started hijacking stuff. Just a coincidenceâŚ
So far I have a couple of notices on items I am discontinuing so I am ignoring them. In the old days we would respond to the things they sent and they would ignore us. Turnabout is fair play and I donât care about the ones they have notified me of so far!
Do you mean the âNext Gen Sellingâ thingy? I clicked on that a few weeks ago, didnât at all like what I saw and got out of it.
so in accordance with amazonâs efficiency, I finally received an e-mail about this.
In typical Amazon fashion, you cannot opt out.
Just saw this story about Amazon workers being in revolt about Amazon AI this morning from Wired magazine â
Interesting and not unexpected comment â " But the engineer says that Amazonâs tools for writing code and technical documentation arenât good enough to reach such ambitious targets. Another employee calls the AI outputs âslop.â"
That is MUCH more polite than anything I would say about itâŚ
Not being a believer that AI is âready for prime timeâ, I still find myself slightly sympathetic to Amazonâs attempt to overcome the ignorance and the stupidity of the humans who write the requirements for Amazon software, and the chaotic appearance of the Amazon catalog.
Unfortunately, the problem appears to be common and widespread on the Internet, other than on some smaller âboutiqueâ shopping sites.
Real problem, wrong solution. Or maybe it is an impossible problem.
It is such a low bar currently. They may actually improve the catalog.
Then they will hit the point of decreasing returns, and they will, of course, not recognize that fact.
After a while, when their AI has gotten most of the low hanging fruit, it will relentlessly try to make improvements on other listings.
That may be where it is now. Someone said âWe should tell the sellers. Maybe then they will like us!â
