What product types?A really badly worded anouncement that is ambigous at best.

I hope those categories mentioned don’t work (or not work) like the Book Category.

If so, that would be really cute, considering how much time I waste daily trying to get Seller “Support” to implement a Product Description that I have submitted, accompanied by all the proof they need.

P.S. ALL CAPS? Hard to read. And stuff like this —> HEALTH_PERSONAL_CARE, HOME_BED_AND_BATH? Harder still.

Oh man, it seems like I am spending a lot of time dealing with issues with Amazon right now. Maybe the folks trying to keep their jobs by initiating changes to the site can just go to the lunch room and read a nice book… I fully expect a reply saying "We’re sorry we need some additional info…

There are already many older listings on Amazon that get search suppressed because no description was included when the listing was created years ago. This happened after Amazon made descriptions mandatory for several categories in 2020. But adding in a description so as to ‘fix’ the listing does absolutely nothing. The system doesn’t see the new description and keeps the listing suppressed and keeps prompting you to add a description.

Could you please fix that so that hundreds of thousands of listings don’t get search suppressed under these new guidelines? That helps no one – not the catalog, not buyers, not sellers.

If the system flags a listing as missing vital attributes, the system should be equipped to see when the attributes have been added in.

Are you going to be removing clothing size requirements from things that are not clothing and don’t have a “Large, XX Medium” type size? Ive had to add this to automotive parts where it does not apply. One can only speculate this is because clothing asins are sold at a 40% cut, and auto parts are a 12% cut for amazon.

On the subject of sizes… is the listing bug that keeps getting reported in the ship to amazon, where that wizard adds size information that the catalog does not recognised, is that going to be addressed passed the standard “It has been forwarded to an internal team at Ba Sing Sei.”?

I have to ask, are listings suppressed due to using all caps?

Comma separated, or underscore…? Sloppy and unclear at best.

Well, then, quit making me open a case every time I submit a description for a product with no description on the product page (thus suppressed), but a description showing as existing when I go to edit the products (in addition to my contribution, which is ignored because the field is locked for one of the dozen reasons that Amazon might biff a listing).

The problem with changing the rules is you need to refactor your code for every change, and since you’ve so overly-silo’d your engineering, that will never happen. Meanwhile, 1PS is not subject to the same limitations, and does not lose listings due to bugs. This, it would seem, violates anti-trust, where the rules for the carrier are different than for those paying carriage.

So to confirm what I am reading, product description and department name is NOT needed for shirts? Clarification PLEASE.