All sorts of issues over here on seller central. Just got off of a call with SAS and most of his internal tools weren’t working either.
Fun Fun…
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Manage Inventory is down for me… Just when I needed to update a couple things and send inventory to FBA… sigh.
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I did awaken to the “New Manage Inventory” screen.
So when then mess with 1 thing if always effects other things, typical Amazon.com
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I’ve been trying the new screen for the last few days playing around with stuff. Seems to be nicer overall once a person has learned where everything is. At my first few looks, it does not seem that anything I used under the old page has been depreciated. Knock on wood.
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Sorry, it’s just us Handmade folk being assimilated to the main river.
We’ve overloaded the system having to file GTIN exemptions for all our wares because Amazon wanted to make our stuff easier to find even though they claim it was always searchable as it was.
What is changing?
We are beginning a multi-year project to reclassify existing Handmade products from GUILD product types to standard product types; for example, a lamp within the GUILD_HOME product type would move to the LAMP product type. A product type refers to a set of products that share similar attributes. Don’t worry— although we are reclassifying your existing Handmade products to standard product types, your existing Handmade products will remain within Amazon’s Handmade category, even after this change.
• Handmade products will appear when customers search and browse in standard categories. This is one of the top feature requests from our Handmade community. As a reminder, Handmade products are already discoverable in all products search.
If the bold last sentence was true, there’d be no need to make a change.
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Unfortunately, not all members of the Seller Community are experiencing the same, as is being discussed in this 10Aug24 SAS thread (and in the NSFE discussions linked therein, among several others over there, & elsewhere):
Still, it does seem to be a work in progress, as our friend @rms elucidates in that thread about the originally-deployed ‘non-frozen Column Headers’ methodology, which has now seemingly been corrected.
I’ll never appreciate the clunky search functionality, among other things, but there’s of course no choice but to adapt to the finished product, as the currently-proposed deprecation date for the old GUI, August 29th, is right around the corner (if it doesn’t get delayed again, as it was from the original July 31st).
Mine says discontinued Sept 16th.
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I got forced into the new page and realized around 90% of our minimum prices are now gone. Ugh.
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Yes and no. In theory, sure — but in real life searching for my jewelry in “all products” means that my products show up at #40-bazillion, Just because I “can” be found in “all products”, doesn’t mean that buyers will scroll through thousands of pages to find me.
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We are freaking Americans… we don’t spell stuff like the rest of the world. I want my “z” back!!!
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