This is the URL of the Seller Central Dashboard, broken for Discourse, where recommendations will appear (n.b. what the likely emphasis on using ‘gaps’ in the URL likely indicates in Amazon’s eyes):
This is the URL of the (semi-Seller Central) Dashboard, broken for Discourse, where one can choose to opt-out of enrollment in yet another attempt by Amazon to squeeze blood from a turnip:
I would venture to suggest, given the available evidence, that it is likely advisable to go ahead and click the “No Thanks. I do not wish to enroll.” ‘button’ on that landing page, and to archive all of the steps that one takes to do so - before, and after confirmation that the SoA Account has been unenrolled from this involuntary program’s default condition - for possible future use in making a case that Amazon’s automated mechanisms failed of promise.
There’s a reason why the confirmation of un-enrollment message was written thusly:
Given what I’ve seen posted in NSFE discussions over the last month in regards to Amazon’s never-ending (and but-rarely effectual, @ least in my book) devotion to substituting AI for reason, methinks it’s time for a bump:
I, too have yet to see any posts (ANYWHERE, in any of the eCommerce discussion venues I crawl) of a positive nature over the 8½ months since I first created this 012624 SAS thread.
That being said, the crawler alerted me to this 091024 NSFE discussion, which features - along with the biting commentary from responders, re: the widely-known sheer inefficacy of Artificial Idiocy implementations (especially when wielded by Amazon’s hands ) - in the initial post, the text of what appears to be a new outreach to some sellers regarding the Selection Gaps Program*:
Ahoy, mateys! 'Tis time anew to batten down yer hatches, lest the sea of ineptitude fouling The River sink ye your ship…
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Link ‘broken’ for display in the Discourse Platform which powers the SAS (aka BSFE), as is often required when trying to link the URL of an Amazon-hosted webpage.
An interesting development, on that particular front, which I’ve seen in recent days is the former paradigm of displaying Arabic script seems to have been shifted to displaying Mandarin ideograms…
I did receive the Amazon Catalog Team email on 09/10/2024.
It had 1 ASIN with 1 update for a poker chip.
Material from “Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene” to “ABS Composite Material”.
I agreed, this time.
I do not like a deadline to block an automatic AI generated change. I would have preferred an option to toggle between Automatic Agree or Automatic Disagree if not completed by a deadline.
As is alluded in my original 012624 post in creating this topic-thread, I did not consider it advisable to enroll in this program; may I ask if you see any mechanism to request opt-out when you navigate to the New Selection Opportunities Enrollment Dashboard @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/selectiongaps/enrollment ?
See that Feedback Pending link?
Down load the excel file and review the proposed changes.
There is a column to give feedback to accept or deny.
Complete and upload.
You are correct. We are not enrolled and cannot opt-out of AI-recommended listing updates in the “Review Listing Updates” tab.
I wish the system didn’t auto-approve the recommended changes if we didn’t complete the upload by the deadline. I am not a fan of auto-changing without approval.
It seems there are at least 2 different drop-down options depending if the recommendation is a Rules Violation or not.
I have not yet determined what happens when I choose “Fix Myself” and do not complete an actual “fix”. I will probably find out eventually. One of my recommendations adds Adults at the end for a poker chip listing. I do not see a need to add Adults at the end of the Title.
Kind of hard to see the cells correctly in the images below.
Because if Amazon deems it could be sold to children, then you would have to have the chips tested to meet CPSIA for children (in other words … are they made with safe materials for children).
Rather than Adult to the end of the title, we wonder if you could put “Not Intended for Use by Children” in either a bullet or in the description.
Amazon just made us add Age Grading to our listings that have been on Amazon for 14 years. Amazon has accepted our testing report 8 times (on 8 ASINs) and rejected it 3 times (on 3 ASINS). It’s a pita.
Avoid being tagged for children’s compliance. You might want to consider how you could work Adult into the title to get rid of the AI bot children’s compliance bot.
I was nervous it may cause the Adult Products Ama-bot to attack the listing, but your advice sounds good. I printed and will pass this conversation over to my boss for the decision.
So far, I seem to be agreeing with the AI recommendations. This will probably add another Agree to my list.