Reminder on plants and seeds listing restrictions

Selling on Amazon
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Here we go again…lol

Reminder on plants and seeds listing restrictions

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Amazon Services [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Thu, Jul 20 at 4:48 PM

Hello,

We are reaching out to you because you have been involved in the sale of live plants, plant propagates, or seeds in the United States.

This message serves as a reminder that it is imperative for you to abide by all relevant federal, state, and local laws pertaining to the listing and sale of these items. This includes adhering to shipping label requirements and ensuring that you have obtained any necessary licenses and permits.

Moreover, sellers of live plants, plant propagates, and seeds must also adhere to Amazon’s policies, which include the following guidelines:

  • Plants, plant propagates, and seeds that have been imported from outside the United States cannot be sold on the US store.

  • Only residents of the United States are permitted to sell plants, plant propagates, and seeds.

Your listing has been identified as a violation of Amazon’s policy regarding US residency, and as a result, it will be removed.

Download the list of affected ASINs:

Due to the sensitivity of the data in this notification, this link will expire within 6 days in accordance with Amazon information security policies. To access the information contained in the email, click on the link immediately and download the information for your records.

If you believe that your listings are incorrectly identified, please contact us at: [email protected] and include the following information:

  • Use the subject line “Plants and Seeds Listing Restrictions”

  • Include a list of affected ASINs

  • Mention why you think the ASINs have been incorrectly identified

  • Provide relevant documentation (if any)

For further information on Amazon’s policies concerning live plants, plant propagates, and seeds, go to “Plant and Seed Products”:

Amazon.

We appreciate your business and your commitment to complying with federal, state, and local regulations, as well as Amazon’s policies.

The Amazon Services team

关于植物和种子发布限制的提醒

尊敬的销售伙伴：

您好！

我们此次联系您，是因为您曾参与了在美国商城销售活体植物、植物繁殖物或种子的活动。

此邮件旨在提醒您，请务必遵守与发布和销售这些商品相关的所有联邦、州和地方法律。这包括遵守货件标签要求并确保您已获得所有必要的执照和许可证。

此外，销售活体植物、植物繁殖物和种子的卖家必须遵守亚马逊的政策，其中包括以下指南：

  • 不应在美国商城销售从美国境外进口的植物、植物繁殖物和种子。

  • 只有美国居民才能销售植物、植物繁殖物和种子。

您的商品已被认定为违反了亚马逊关于美国居民的政策，因此将被移除。

下载受影响的 ASIN 列表：。

如果您认为自己的商品认定有误，请通过 [email protected] 联系我们，并提供以下信息：

  • 使用主题行“植物和种子发布限制”

  • 包含受影响的 ASIN 列表

  • 说明您为何认为 ASIN 认定有误

  • 提供相关文件（如有）

如需了解亚马逊关于活体植物、植物繁殖物和种子的政策的更多信息，请参阅“植物和种子商品”：

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external/G201737480。

感谢您的合作以及您对遵守联邦、州和地方法规以及亚马逊政策的承诺。

亚马逊开店服务团队

I sell collectible coins/stamps…and a few books on them hobbies.

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Any of those coins, stamps or books refer to plants or seeds? Or have images of them?

We have been shut down due to a “picture of a mask” not allowed to sell PP devices. A “Flesh Color Marker” not allowed to sell human body parts. A hand drawn picture of a tiger, not allowed to sell endangered species on Amazon. A hand drawn illustration of a “Safari Type Vehicle” considered a Jeep, thus not allowed. Holographic labels, (just rainbow shiny vinyl we print on) slashed since it is drug paraphernalia. We are in the middle of needing a CPC for hundreds of Home and Kitchen items that are at a minimum 12x16 magnets. While I have a solution, these are not items a child would have access to.

Yet browse the catalog for Asian Basin Sellers, free to list anything, a_n_y_thing.

Thanks for the reminder Amazon. :crazy_face: :crazy_face: :crazy_face:

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You MIGHT find this post amusing. It seems that the BOTS don’t understand where TN is located.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/9eeb00ca-ed47-4b78-a827-207ccf5383d2?postId=e8f1947e-aab6-4014-a928-b57ebaee5502

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Actually it is for a MISSOURI STATEHOOD #1426 8c Stamp which has nothing to do with stamps/seeds. I get a lot that are forbidden for whatever stoopid reason they can think up.

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“Amazon manglement”, I like it!

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A hand drawn picture of a tiger, not allowed to sell endangered species on Amazon.

Stuff like this makes you wonder if someone, somewhere has tried to sell an actual tiger on Amazon at some point. It would probably be hard to ship. And not a great fit for FBA, although I would like to see the warehouse video of that. :rofl:

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Cut down on the claims of “my dog destroyed the package”.

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Are we to understand that Amazon sends out a notice that seeds must be produced in the United States, and the notice is in both English and Chinese?

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Yes. that IS the case, and often has been ever since the Fedz first cracked down on the Imported Seeds ‘Snafu’ some years back.

To be fair, this is hardly the first time that Amazon has sent this particular broadside, and failed to specifically target the Language Of Preference set for this or that SoA or Vendor Account.

Laziness, thy name be Amazon…

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The interesting thing about their notice is that in both @1Goodbye’s case, and the seller’s post that @dwat0870 linked, the issue is identified as

Your listing has been identified as a violation of Amazon’s policy regarding US residency

So it seems less about the seeds themselves, and more about the seller’s physical location. @1Goodbye, do you live in the US?

In the NSFE post, the language isn’t exactly clear. They say -

Everything is grown, sold and shipped from Tennesee USA, attached our nursery license and hope that’s the end of this nutty BS.

But they don’t say sold and shipped from Tennessee by us, so it isn’t 100% clear if they actually reside in Tennessee. The reference to their nursery license makes me think yes, but you never know.

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@1Goodbye, do you live in the US?..no I live in Georgia on a private lake surrounded by tall pines and swamp…Yes I live in the USA. I was born and bred in the USA…

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no I live in Georgia on a private lake surrounded by tall pines and swamp…Yes I live in the USA.

:laughing: OK, just checking… so it seems that Amazon can’t tell the difference between the US, and ??? :woman_facepalming:

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The country (Georgia) covers an area of 69,700 square kilometres (26,900 sq mi), and has a population of 3.7 million people.

georgia

Clearly, the great state of Georgia has been identified by Amazon as a foreign land.

Why am I not surprised.

They changed our “Corporate Name” to “NH” in the ID sweep in June, and thanked me for filling in all the forms promptly.

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This issue of geography has been an ongoing Amazon topic of frustration. Recall back a few years ago when we were shocked to discover that Brazil was now in North America? Or more recently, when we woke up to discover the US had ceased to exist?

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During one of the earliest rounds of Seller Identity Verification some years back, there were several posts made by Georgia (Peach State)-based 3P Sellers that seemingly could best be explained by a poorly-parameterized Amabot making exactly that mistake.

I recall mentioning that possibility to @ least one of those folks at the time, but IIRC we never heard back in the ASF whether or not that was indeed the case for them.

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Amazon would have much more accurate location info if they used zip codes. I assumed they thought I lived in the country of Georgia but if they checked my zip code they would realize it is the state. My appeal to them closing this listing…

ASIN B00A6HXXXX Is not a plant or seed, it is a collectible stamp. MISSOURI STATEHOOD #1426 Block of 4 x 8¢ US Postage Stamps and has nothing to do with plants or seeds. Please see listing to verify. Bruce

Even if they do close it, it is not a loss. This is a common USA stamp and there are sellers willing to sell it for practically next to nothing. I don’t waste my time on under $5 on a sale so mostly I sell very obscure foreign stamps.

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Even an application of Bacon’s Law (re: the “Six Degrees of Separation” premise of the modern parlor game, not the Virginia House of Burgesses’ late-17th Century measure) would be hard-pressed to make a connection between the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton & President Truman’s birthday to illegally-imported seeds.

Sadly, that won’t stop the poorly-targeted Amabots from trying…

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I suspect this is to remind Sellers who prefer to read in Chinese than US English, of the aforementioned policy.

The reminder seems targeted. :eyes: