And it just goes to show 
There absolutely is a place for criticism of Amazon. All criticism is not disloyalty or bad business skills on the parts of those pointing out weaknesses.
The issues with seasonal, discontinued, and OOAK items addressed in New Rule #1 were frankly glaringly obvious to any 3P Seller and exposed Amazon’s claim to have consulted 3Ps at all prior to implementation as incredibly disingenuous, if not purely fictional. (“Mom, everybody wants Chipotle for supper!” “Who’s everybody?” “…well just me but…” 
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The same with finally acknowledging Amazon’s own role in creating artificial FBA inventory levels due to weaknesses in their own processes. In a well-thought-out, fully vetted, holistically conceptualized program, New Rule #2 should have been in place to reassure Sellers since faux-Day 1–but it forces Amazon to admit a few flaws, which IDK if you know but Big Corporations have a hard time doing.
Months of chaos, hours of field time wasted due to lack of basic common sense clarity, communicated upfront. 