Beginning November 13, 2023, the list price attribute will be required for certain product types that commonly involve list prices. The list price is also referred to as the manufacturer’s suggested retail price.
You are receiving this email because you have previously added selection for these product types. Your existing offers will not be affected by this change.
Rather, when you create a new item listing or when you edit an existing listing, you will see a prompt to fill out the list price attribute. If you previously used product templates to add or edit product listings in bulk for the impacted product types, you must use the newest updated template version.
If you do not have a ready-to-provide list price, a possible value could be the first price at which you have offered or will be offering the product. You can also provide a value of 0 to indicate that you do not have a list price.
We did download a new excel category specific template for our items and can see several changes have been made. It may appear as a lot of attributes are missing but look closely as you will find several columns are simply hidden (even in the required attributes on the one we use).
One the new templates, it will be useful if you know how to unhide columns and unhide sheets (hidden tabs).
I hope this doesn’t mean that Amazon is going to kick out the zeros. That list price has been mandatory in books for some time now.
I use zero for the vast majority of my listings (all used books).
For many the list price has zero relevance in today’s world. The cover price of a book published in 1954 has no bearing on today’s value. And often the list price is unknown.
Seems like another change meant to get the message across that if you do not sell branded, brand new, box in/box out, in production products, you will need another selling venue to replace Amazon.
Oddly, after having to enter a (meaningless) “List Price” on books for the last year or so, midway through listing some books today, it is suddenly no longer a required field for books; although there is now a new option to automatically populate the field with your price.
There was a field of List Price. But it wasn’t outlined in red; I didn’t enter anything, and it went through with no error. And everything was in normal order; fields as well as the values in the drop-downs.
And as I noted, to the right of the List Price box, was a ? in a circle, with a tag next to it “Enter your offer price as List Price” or something similar. Scares me to think what happens when the Goodwill lowballers start just clicking that button…
Sadly, since noticing, none of the books I’ve checked were worth listing (working on a big clean-out), so don’t know if it’s now normal.
Someone else mentioned this “0” lately…lemme find it…