Pesticide bot having a great time in the Office Products category

The pesticide bot took down 6 of my ASINs in 2 days, claiming that they are pesticides.

1 notebook, 1 highlighter, 2 ballpoint pens, 1 pen nib, 1 ink.
I am very confident that they’d be reinstated, it’s just annoying that I have to spend time on this… :weary_face:

Weirdly, only 2 of those showed up as Restricted Products Policy Violations. The rest of them just went into stranded inventory without showing on my Account Health page.

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Several years ago, 20 or 30 listings of my handmade jewelry were suppressed for being a pesticide. I guess if you’re a bug, everything looks like either food or a pesticide, and the bots decided I wasn’t selling food.

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Everything from water valves to rubber belts to steam gauges to pipe solder has been flagged as a pesticide. You either deal with the Amazon Time Tax or you give up on those ASINs.

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The wife says the pesticide bot doesn’t work very well because it hasn’t tagged me as a “pest-in-her-side”.

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Well that’s some terrible communication :expressionless_face:

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