We get them for selling a book at $19.95, when the lowest price after ours in $189.99. Actual retail is $19.95. The alert states that we are selling to low. It is evident that the Amazon Artificial intelligence bots do not really have AI.

Just fill in the min and max prices with ridiculously low and high numbers respectively, and Amazon will never bother you like this again.

EDIT: This used to be a bug fix. Now the bugs are meaner.

I’ve been having the same issue along with others since Oct 5th…
More and more sellers are reporting the same issue

I have two of these bogus alerts for stationery items that are new. Very annoying and a waste of time.

I have gotten prices alerts on items that have been inactive because I sold out months ago.

A couple of days ago, I decided to try out the amazon repricer for one of my items so I added a min, max price. Item was immediately put inactive due to a price alert, and now I can’t relist the ASIN because I get a price alert every time no matter what I do…

I had a similar problem, although it was not unexpected (I was changing prices to flag books I wanted to dispose of; that way they end up on one page to create one order).
The bad part was that while they told me about one, 8 more went into “Stranded Inventory”. Once there, the only option was “Create Removal Order”. Since I wanted to remove them, not a problem in this case, but I have to wonder why I didn’t get an alert on these, and why it wouldn’t let me simply reprice them?

And for at least a couple of these books, the price was not out of range for that title.

I’ve only had this happen to one book, a textbook, and nothing I have tried will fix it. I even closed the listing, waited 24 hours, relisted and it immediately happened again. This is a high priced book with only a few copies available (I had the lowest price), so I guess I’ll sell my first book on the bay! Wish me luck!

On another thread it was suspected that the reason the seller lost the buy box after getting a price alert was because Walmart had the item cheaper.

So perhaps the Artificial Intelligence is not just looking at Amazon, but rather looking everywhere on the internet to find low prices. I imagine students try and sell their used text books so you could be getting hung up with that.

It’s interesting how Amazon telly YOU to lower your price but i bet Amazon doesn’t lower their prices below cost.

This was my latest reply from Seller Support regarding price alerts.

Please note that, Your maximum item price must be less than 6 times the ASIN’s recent sales price or $200.00, whichever is higher. In most cases, if your maximum price is less than 2 times your current price you will not see a maximum price error. For example, if your price is $100.00 and your maximum price is $550.99, you should not see a maximum price error.