There are branded items that I am trying to list on. (Standard disclaimer: yes, I have permission to list these items for sale on amazon by the rights owner, etc.) However, when I find the item in Amazon’s catalog and try to add my listing, I get the 5885 error about listing generic items.
Any idea what the deal is with items like this and how this nonsense can be circumvented?
Do you know if the brand has whitelisted the items?
More and more brands have provided a “whitelist” of their approved sellers and if YOU are NOT on the list you will be stopped in your tracks and probably hit with an IP violation and an error message.
I have been selling this brand on Amazon since 2017 or 2018, but I haven’t tried to create any new listings for their items in a while.
Even if that is the case, why am I getting “generic” issues and not just a restricted listing error?
May I ask if the ASIN for which you’re attempting to make an Offer-Listing is this one, ‘branded’ as “part”?:
https: //www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Replacement-Furnace-Sensor-025-35306-000/dp/B00ECEE69Q
The ASIN of the listing in my screenshot is B0D9CY825Z.
This is not an item I care strongly about, and these are pretty bad listings, but this is an example of the problem I am running into. There are other items on better ASINs that I care about more.
That is an excellent question and the only answer is going to have to come from Amazon (generally).
They have bleeped up so much stuff with their totally insane ‘generic’ policy that I suspect it has invaded other areas of the platform with the ‘normal’ unintended consequences.
And here we all though that COVID was the only China based plague coming our way. THANKS AMAZON!
‘Branded’ by this seller, who appears to have uploaded 5K+ Offer-Listings on 13Jul2024:
https: //www.amazon.com/s?k=GAYQGDK
The sun is sinking slowly in The West…
I apologize, that’s the wrong ASIN.
I meant B06XG23XGG.
This "branding is bogus and just a way to try to keep sellers off “their” listing, but this is a different issue.