Is anyone else having trouble with creating a new SKU and creating a shipment for it?
I created a new SKU, chose the ‘Save as FBA and send to Amazon’ option and in the Send Inventory workflow I tried to create a new packing template. The main send-to page and the template page are showing the new SKU (so it exists somewhere!) but I’m getting a not found error.
My inventory page is not showing the new sku yet either. It’s been a few hours, I’ve been refreshing and restarting the template creation to no avail.
I’m stuck. I can’t print the fnsku labels and finish my shipment to send today.
I just tried sending as individual units and am getting the same error.
I noticed your item shows “SKU” instead of “FNSKU”.
Does that have anything to do with an FBA glitch?
I sent you a screenshot of how my page looks with FNSKU, but it could be due to different products or category. Just a quick thought before going home for the weekend.
I don’t know any details, but this sounds similar to a couple of posts I read on the NSFE earlier today; so my guess would be that Amazon is doing some of its normal Q4 Friday mucking around.
'Thanks for sharing that, I don’t do the NSFE but I was suspicious that something went wrong behind the scenes due to Amazon ‘tweaking’.
My product can only be sold with an FNSKU, it cannot be commingled. I create new offers for it regularly. What happened today has never happened before.
The option to choose label type (fnsku or upc/ASIN) was not presented because label type is not optional in grocery.
(OT: Other tweaking - I noticed a few days ago that the shipping charges are not shown on the ‘other sellers offers’ pop-out when I know certain sellers have shipping charges, aka not free.
Those that are Free Shipping don’t show that either.)
The SKU I created is still not showing up in my inventory, searched alphabetical by SKU and also by Date Created. So I can’t use it and I can’t delete it.
I tried to create a new offer with that SKU tonight and got this:
SKU entered is already being used in your catalog. Please check your catalog across all stores or enter a different SKU to try again. (I’m only selling In the US ‘store’).
OK Amazon - where the f is it?
Are there still complaints on the NSFE about problems creating new FBA offers?
I keep it at ALL by default so I don’t miss something, I rarely change the sort except to simplify a search result.
I don’t remember the blue Updated oval before, is that evidence of recent tweaking or am I just not very observant?
This revision, which was officially announced ex post facto in the 100925 Amazon News Headline “New listing management features available on Manage All Inventory” (link, Seller Central), is apparently still a bit buggy, so it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that you wind up finding the elusive new Offer-Listing hiding under/within one of the new tabs of the new MYI toolbar located to the left of that ‘Updated’ Listing Status indicator.
Interesting. I don’t have tabs, instead there is a dropdown with the different statuses. I checked them all for the missing listing and it is not anywhere - suppressed, improve quality, inactive, closed, etc.
Glad to know my observational abilities are not diminished - yet.
I saw the announcement of the “wonderful changes”, but frankly couldn’t find anything different. Maybe it’s my defaults; or maybe it’s what I think matters (might not notice a color change, or that the rectangle changed to an oval). Or maybe I’m not one of the “special” ones to get the Beta.
Not a big deal, but seriously, WTF do they have to cram all of this BS in to Q4, when (hopefully) we are all just doing our best to keep up???
My theory is that programming for Q4 was done earlier in the year, and in their minds they are now programming for next year/quarter, same as the merchandise buyers are ordering ahead for the season to come. Changes at this time are annoying, especially those that have bugs.
Agreed; this becomes especially frustrating for 3P Sellers when Amazon surreptitiously conducts A/B tests w/ the A9/A10 Algorithm, as KJ has revealed re: the split-testing that’s plagued many of our bookseller compatriots.
I think the bigger factor when FBA doesn’t get the BB (assuming that the seller has good metrics) is times when the FCs are overloaded. We saw a lot of MF offers getting the BB a couple of months ago, when the FCs were unable to keep up with receiving the Xmas shipments.
As for “agnostic”, I think that somewhere in the help files, it mentions that FBA offers will tend to get preference; although I may be getting confused about just what was being said. And I’ve seen cases where FBA got the BB despite being hundreds of dollars higher than the FBM.
