Any way to change hundreds of listings at Amazon?

Selling on Amazon Listings and Variations
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In a 'glass half-full" moment, I see that as of 010426 (the date I first discovered the latest change, & archived the page as reproduced below; in a vain & forlorn hope that the observed inaccuracies might possibly be ‘anchors’ for a page still under construction, I waited 2 weeks to see if anything changed before posting this reply), the Editorial Team has restored the BTG table to that SHC page:

All mention of Book Loader has been suppressed, and it’s certainly helpful that one can yet again access the Browse Tree Guides - but the glass is only ½-full, in me own estimation, due to the fact that several of the other (in fact, most of them, dadgummit) embedded links offered up on that page are behind the internal use-only M.A.P. (“Midway Authentication Portal”) gateway:

1 - In the “Product Spreadsheet” section, we all can see that the “Add Products” embedded URL currently points here:

https://www.sellercentral.amazon.dev/product-search/bulk

the correct URL for the Add Products Dashboard, in ‘simplified’ form (& ‘broken’ for display in Discourse) is this:

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/product-search/bulk

AND we can see that the the “Check Upload Status” link is currently this:

https://www.sellercentral.amazon.dev/product-search/status

The correct ‘simplified’ URL for that resource is apparently not the following, as might be presumed @ the first blush (again, link ‘broken,’ as are all following URLs in this post, when applicable):

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/product-search/status

because on the seller-side of things, it simply redirects to the new (and rather execrable, IMHO) Add Products Dashboard; it appears to me that Amazon’s actual intent is to link to the “Check Upload Status” Dashboard found here:

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/listing/status

2 - In the “Video Tutorial” section, the link to the Seller University Module “Match or create product listings and variations in bulk” is currently this:

https://www.sellercentral.amazon.dev/learn/courses?moduleId=c7bf5534-c5fb-4bc0-a6f8-549ac4b3aafc&ref_=su_home_rum&modLanguage=English&videoPlayer=airy

The correct ‘simplified’ URL for that module is this:

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/learn/courses?moduleId=c7bf5534-c5fb-4bc0-a6f8-549ac4b3aafc

2 - In the “Listing Loader” section, once again, we can again see that the “Check Upload Status” URL points behind the M.A.P.-shielded gateway, as is true of the afore-mentioned “Product Spreadsheet” ¶ (paragraph).

3 - In the “Price and Quantity” section not only is that same mistake repeated, but we can also all see that there are two other missteps there, to wit -

a) The currently-embedded link to the “Update price and quantity” ‘card’ is this:

https://www.sellercentral.amazon.dev/product-search/bulk/generate/edit-offer

The correct ‘simplified’ URL for that resource - which is supposed to invoke the ‘slide-in’ menu-dialog box that’s part & parcel of the execrably-redesigned Add Products workflow, so that a user can advance through the steps intended to provide the latest-and-greatest Attribute-Harmonized flat-file template for this or that Catalog Category, targeted specifically to this or that of Amazon’s Global Marketplaces - is this:

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/product-search/bulk/generate/edit-offer

b) As is true of the “Product Spreadsheet” section previously pointed out, the “Add Products” embedded URL in that section currently points to the same ‘shielded’ URL reproduced above.

4 - In the “Style guides and Browse Tree Guides” section, the first two links - to the SHC’s “List products that do not have a Product ID (UPC, EAN, JAN or ISBN)” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200426310 in the Note, and to “Categories and products that require approval” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200333160 embedded in the restored Table’s last Column Header, “Approval required,” are both correct (& even presented in best-practice ‘simplified’ form - no need to strip a superfluous “G” prefix from the SHC ID #); all of the links (save four of them) in the “Style Guides” & “Browse Tree Guides (BTG)” columns are also correctly accessible from the seller-side of things.

Those 4 exceptions can begin to be found in the second link in the Consumer Electronics row, “Consumer Electronics Store Style Guide,” which is currently supplied w/ a M.A.P.-shielded link to the newest iteration of Amazon’s “Rainier” database (more on this to come in the concluding ¶ of this post):

A) https: //rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/200288470

The correct URL to the SHC’s “The Consumer Electronics Store Style Guide” page is here:

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200288470

B) The second exception is notable in the Style Guides column, in the badly-bollixed “Clothing & Accessories BTG” row, which has been inexplicably mixed up with Software & Video Games - the embedded link of which label points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G200390640

instead of to the apparently intended SHC page, “Product detail page rules” @ https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200390640

C) The third exception also occurs in that same row, & is documented in item ‘5 - i)’ below.

D) The fourth exception repeats the same mistake as the third, in the second of the Style Guides offered up in the “Tools & Home Improvement” row - “Reconditioned Tools & Hardware” currently points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G200390640

rather than where it, too, should lead: to the SHC’s “Product detail page rules” @ https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200390640

5 - As if this litany of errors weren’t already long enough, we can also find that EVERY SINGLE LINK in the aforementioned “Approval required” column is also inaccessible; when Amazon restored the table to the SHC page in question, it kept the same labels for each cell that have been there (prior to last year’s temporary disappearance) for the past ten years and more, so all but one of them display as “View requirements”:

a) In the “Automotive (Parts & Accessories)/Automotive (Tyres & Wheels)” row - n.b. the bleedover from alternate contributory attribute sources w/ the cross-pond spelling of “tires” - “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G200584550

The intended SHC page is “Selling in Automotive & Powersports” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200584550

b) In the “Collectible Coins” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/201526800

The intended SHC page is “Collectible Coins” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/201526800

c) In the “Entertainment Collectibles” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/200944120

The intended SHC page is “Entertainment Collectibles” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200944120

d) In the “Fine Art – Inventory File Template available upon approval to sell in this category.” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/201257400

The intended SHC page is “Fine Art” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/201257400

e) In the “Grocery and Gourmet Food” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/201511970

The intended SHC page is “Grocery & gourmet foods” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/201511970

f) In the “BISS”* section, we find the only label that varies from “View requirements,” the embedded link for “Selling Guidelines” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/201847780

The intended SHC page is “Selling Industrial & Scientific Products” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/201847780

g) In the “Jewellery” row - again, n.b. abnormality in that misspelling - “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/200332590

The intended SHC page is “Jewelry” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200332590

h) In the “Motorcycles & ATVs (Go to Automotive Parts & Accessories)” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G200584550

As was the case with the aforementioned Automotive row, the intended SHC page is “Selling in Automotive & Powersports” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200584550

h) In the “Music” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/202188990

The intended SHC page is “Music & DVD” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/202188990

i) In the badly-bollixed “Clothing & Accessories BTG” row - already subject to obvious disassociation error(s), as noted above - “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/GP9BGQD68HQ5V4YF

The intended SHC page is “Condition guidelines: Software & Computer Games” @ https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/P9BGQD68HQ5V4YF

j) In the “Sports Collectibles”/“Trading Cards” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/200800780

The intended SHC page is “Sports Collectibles” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200800780

k) In the “Video & DVD” row, “View requirements” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/202188990

Which is supposed to be the same SHC page supplied in the “Music” row, “Music & DVD” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/202188990

6 - All 4 of the links in the “Troubleshooting” section @ the bottom of the page are also shielded:

a) “Review a Processing Report” points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/G200194300

rather than to the SHC’ “Review a Processing Report” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/200194300

b) “Review my inventory results” currently points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/G611

rather than to the SHC’s “Review My Inventory Results” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/611

c) “Inventory file upload FAQ” is pointing here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/G201201070

instead of to “Inventory file upload FAQ” @ https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/201201070

d) “Error code explanations” now points here:

https://rainier-m1k.integ.amazon.com/gp/help/G17781

but it should lead to "Error code explanations: @ https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/17781

The “Rainier” database has been around for a long time - Project Rainier was originally launched more than 20 years ago, in Q3 of 2005, and it’s always had the intent of reducing support infrastructure costs via replacing humans with Amabots - but it this sorry offering is an example of the project making progress, I’ll eat my hat.

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“BISS” is an ‘Amazonese’ acronym for “Business, Industrial, and Scientific Supplies”

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