On my last 3-hour edit, I only have 3 out of 112 ASINs suppressed, I’ll take it.
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It is likely that facing the same circumstance which you’ve premised that I would, too, but - … :
I continue to be rather discontented that above-board sellers like you ARE quite-demonstrably proving to find incontrovertible evidence of Amazon not living up to its barely-honored promise of inerrancy in this or that team’s deployment/interpretation/abrogation of published policy, or of its Enterprise Domain’s webpages.
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You might want to separate those 3 out into their own group to make this easier to manage and letting the 109 run on their own with a set and stable end date just in case Amazon gets wise to this workaround.
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The other shoe just dropped over in the NSFE (CTA Dashboard URLs broken for Discourse Platform display):
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/12a14c28-440c-46cb-8db5-7342427e65af
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You had me at “your customers”.
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This number just keeps rising… First it was 500 I believe. Then it went to 1000, then 5000, and now 10K.
Launch? This program has been around for a year.
Eff Amazon
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And now what appears to be another one with today’s 29Apr24 News Headline “Offer discounted prices globally with the new Price Discounts dashboard” (link):
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Has anyone seen any updates to this “insufficient sales history” policy? I have some new items coming soon that are not currently in the Amazon catalog. I’ve used coupons historically to get them going and create sales at product launch and would hate to lose this valuable tool.
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The “insufficient history” policy is still there, and laterly there is a new one block coupon with “no reviews or not enough reviews” which was not showing as problem previously.
But I set up a coupon for a brand new listing (no sales and no review on it), and the coupon system did allow it to run and stayed running. I have read seller mentioning about able to do coupon with brand new items on Amazon forum too.
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@Dreamscape-Studio Thank you for that ray of hope 
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I’m still getting errors after three hours of Insufficient Sales History and Product Rating (no rating in my cases - which it identifies as a low product rating).
I’m having to edit and change the date every 3 hours to keep the coupons alive.
About once a week, sometimes on a Monday, I get a gift and the coupon doesn’t go bad after 3 hours.
So I’m seeing the same behavior now that I did when this post was started.
If Amazon ever resolves this, I’ll feel so happy and think they are the best for delighting the seller.
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Does having variations make a difference? By that, I mean that if one variant has sales history then does that allow all the other variants to qualify for a coupon?
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That’s a good question. I’m not sure, so I just set up a coupon to test it.
The variation family of the testing item does have good rating, which I hope will count for the testing item.
The testing item hasn’t been sold for over a year now (which basically means no sales history for coupon purpose if it’s not in a variation family), but there were recent sales from other variations in the family. So it’d be interesting to see if the sales from the other variation will be sufficient for the test item to qualify for a coupon.
I’ll report back in 3 hrs (?).
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I just browsed my listings, and my slower selling variations are getting suppressed for Insufficient Sales History. If the parent listing doesn’t haven’t a lot of reviews, it will also get the Product Rating suppression as well.
Bear in mind that 95 of my 109 coupon listings are getting suppressed. I have a few variations with enough sales that are not getting suppressed. I guess I’m just a small fish in the Amazon sea.
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Well, that didn’t work. Coupon was suppressed after 3 hrs for “ASINs do not have sufficient sales history”.
The “Error” didn’t mention “rating”, so the group rating for the variation family is fine for the coupon, but sales history is “ASIN” based. So each variation have to have sufficient sales history to be able to do coupon.
What happens if the variation is brand new? Would it act like brand new individual listing that seems to be able to do coupon without sales history? I don’t have one of those to test it. Maybe @Setalpz knew?
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All of my ASINs are at least 2 years old. I’ll be adding a new one in a few days/weeks, and I’ll see how it behaves with coupons.
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The “Edit Coupon Ending Date” hack to un-supress ASINs stopped working for me today.
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Guess Amazon finally figured out what was going on and fixed it. Maybe they are watching this forum…???
Wondering if a new offer would be immediately suppressed???
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I was thinking the same thing. Glad I’m not the only one.
I also wanted to say, leave it to AZ to Re-Break something that we figured out how to temporarily fix. But I didn’t want to sound too snarky. But I am snarky, I suppose.
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I was wrong about all of this. Thought this whole thing was an unintentional glitch that would have been fixed 2 months ago. Coupons = $ for Amazon at 60 cents a redemption for doing absolutely nothing with zero overhead. Still leaves me scratching my head. Maybe stats show that the reduction in price with the offer was leading to less referral fees, even with the 60 cents factored in. That has to be it.
Amazon is doing a lot to reduce promotional activity using traditional means outside of straight price reductions.
- Limited Time Deals (Best Deals) seem to be reserved for Amazon’s brands and their 1P offerings, leaving sellers with lightning deals as the only thing that’s sort of good to run. We used to run at least 1 a month and now we haven’t been served one up (Best deal) since the ball dropped. We are running 1 LD a week and have been. That’s 48 hours a month vs. a LTD at 168 hours a month. It’s actually worked out much better for us and LD’s work well for us on our top seller. SAS covers 1 deal fee per week, so saving $600 a month which offsets some of what we pay for SAS.
- This coupon nonsense where the moon has to be aligned with a certain star or planet to work.
- I’m sure I am missing something or somethings else…
There has to be some logic behind all of this because it doesn’t seem to really help Amazon, it’s precious buyers or their coveted selling “partners”
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