I have no idea if I will need compliance documents for my stuff, but just in case Amazon bots think they do, I am throwing as many of my listings up as possible before September 30. They will be mostly incomplete, with only one photo, but at least they will be up.
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Yea, I saw that in the news the other day (Amz News). Couldn’t be any less clear if it tried.
Hopefully it’s at least slightly effective in keeping some of the scum off of Amazon. Probably wishful thinking.
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Thanks for posting this notice. I totally skipped over it on the inventory pages. There are 3 notices now, I just don’t pay attention to them anymore.
I wonder what will happen after 9/30 if you need to complete the listing, such as adding more photos or other info? Would any “Edit” of the existing listing trigger the requirment?
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I was wondering when the change was announced, according to the Amazon News, which I missed, it was posted on 9/25. That’s really not that much time, but at least it was annouced before it alredy happened.
Agree. I looked up the link provided for additional info, which was totally useless. Guess we’ll just have to wait until we need to list something new to see whether we’ll need to provide any documents. What a mess that going to be.
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See, the thing is I don’t sell toys, but I put the small parts warning on to cover myself. I am hoping the bots won’t go off and think that my stuff is toys and I need to get compliance paperwork for stuff that isn’t toys.
I also wonder if the bot is going to require compliance paperwork for everything? Like, I don’t even know what kind of compliance paperwork my stuff would need. Wouldn’t they have told me by now if I needed compliance paperwork?
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I don’t know, but the notice said new listings, so my listings are active and won’t be new. They just need more photos and tweaking.
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If this is your product that you make/manufacture, Amazon would expect you to know the laws pertaining to your product.
If this is manufactured product that you sell, Amazon would expect the manufacturer to know the laws pertaining to the product and have the complaince paperwork available.
Maybe … maybe not …
The bot may have not discovered you yet or, if it has, you might have not triggered the requirement. Either way, Amazon expects you to know your product and the laws pertaining to it.
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Well, as far as I am aware, my stuff requires no compliance paperwork. We are fully compliant with the laws. I am just wondering what Amazon bots would require. When I refer to what compliance paperwork my stuff “needs,” I mean what Amazon needs, not what the laws need. Look at all the pesticide requirements Amazon is imposing on stuff that isn’t pesticides, for example.
I specifically make my stuff to avoid needing paperwork. I do not put batteries in them, I don’t put magnets in them, etc.
I am worried they will classify my stuff as toys when it is not toys. And then they want compliance paperwork for toys, but we don’t sell toys!
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Don’t bet on being able to edit without triggering the bots; that may or may not work.
Under the new workflow that has been forced upon us, I can create an offer (on an existing listing for a book) without inputting the “List Price”. But if I go back to edit in any way, even just changing the price, I now have to enter “List Price”. Likewise, it appears that editing a listing can trigger the pricing bots to check (leading to your listing being deactivated even though much lower than existing offers), so it would not surprise me if it also triggered some bot to check these new requirements.
I’m hoping that, as a bookseller, I won’t be affected, since I just add to existing listings. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it gets worse in the future.
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I wouldn’t be overly concerned about this. Amazon has shifted away from over-enforcing compliance in the name of $.
I’m sure things will change somewhat for categories that deal with compliance but if you’re doing what you’re supposed to, it should be easy to comply with.
I have a feeling that this new policy was put in place to show regulators what a great job they are doing without actually showing any evidence of the same.
I could be wrong but I doubt it.
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Yeah, reading through the actual announcement, I don’t think that I’ll have anything to worry about, at least in this regard. Getting gated from random publishers I’ve never heard of, well, that’s a different story…
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I’ve had a few non-toys caught by the toy compliance bots and was able to appeal successfully so far. Of course that could change.
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I would edit by using spreadsheet uploads.
IMHO…I would think that BOTS would first look at category and then what’s needed for product compliance.
I sell IVORY colored table linens which surely is a trigger word in the Jewelry category.
I used to sell DIAMOND shaped table linens which should also be a trigger word in jewelry.
But Amazon has left me alone in Kitchen Table Linens.
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Thanks. Your problem is exactly the type of bot-crap I’m trying to avoid.
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