There’s a lot of discussion on Seller Forums that Amazon is not allowing any new product listings for Supplements (and Health & Beauty overall), even for people who have previously selling in the category. Is anyone else encountering this problem?
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Our last conversation about this. I haven’t seen much change except a few examples of mods escalating and getting a few listings through.
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@VitRhea thanks. That thread is super helpful
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We might add … Welcome to SAS!
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I’ll ask my SAS (strategic account services) manager (who works with other supplement / H&B sellers) about this and report back.
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I sent the email already and then I went on over to the NSFE.
Could be that Amazon is finally getting around to expanding their resting requirements beyond Sports / weight / sexual health niches to everything. At least based on what I am seeing.
That was supposed to happen like 4 years ago and continued to get put off.
That would be great to weed out the BS (as much as possible since fake COA’s can be bought from shady labs that are certified).
Maybe we can bust a few Alibaba supplement sellers. Yea, Alibaba got into supplements in the last couple years and it’s crap as expected…
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They JUST added joint health (anything containing chondroitin, glucosamine, MSM) back to the testing page the other day (within the last week or so; they’ve stopped dating changes to the page). It would be wild if they went from that to total certification.
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There was a big recall on a joint supplement awhile back where a few sellers lost a ton of $ relating to the auto-refunds of every purchase, regardless of lot.
Maybe it took Amazon that long to react…
I’d rather see this go all the way, all at once, instead of drips and drabs.
Now that Alibaba is into the supplement game across categories, now is the time to enforce the corruption that is happening on the marketplace.
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I watched that one explode.
Honestly? I’m all for it, the industry is full of sketchy folks who will slap your name on a product and set you loose to sell it. But it’s also a pain to have to test for whatever drugs they’re putting in garbage knockoff supplements, and hope they don’t change their list at the drop of a hat & make it retroactive with 0 warning. (I guess we now have to test joint health products (defined by Amazon for NSAIDs and corticosteroids based on NSF/ANSI 173-2024 section 5.3.5.3.)
Pet peeve
The entire time Amazon had the individual drugs these products would need to be tested for they spelled vardenafil wrong, like they copied and pasted a list and left off the terminal “l”.
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