Your price gouging/pricing health bots do not consider our product cost. One seller offers at a loss to clear out inventory and the rest of us are expected to follow suit

HOW, EXACTLY DO WE DO THIS? I have a NUMBER of ASIN’S I need to appeal and I cannot find anywhere on the Account Health Dashboard to APPEAL Price Issues.

If I am missing it, PLEASE elaborate as to where it is.

If not, PLEASE ADD an “APPEAL PRICE ALERTS” to the page (or SOmewhere that we can find it).

Thanks!

I have submitted appeals for a few flagged products on April 1 and did not receive any responses from Amazon as of today (April 10). The items are still blocked. The prices of these items haven’t changed for the past 2 years and some prices are even lower than what it was before.

*A lot of us have lowered our prices to the point where we are making pennies or even losing money and our appeals are still not being accepted, RIDICULOUS!

About a month ago, amazon’s automated system flagged 11 of our listings for ‘price gouging.’ Of course, these were not actually price gouging, amazon doesn’t know what we paid for the items or any other relevant facts. We appealed most of them, amazon didn’t bother replying at all. Just recently, we get a letter from our state’s attorney general, and guess what, amazon sent a list of all sales transactions of those 11 ASINs to our attorney general! Now we are being threatened by the AG and have to deal with this nightmare. I was totally shocked that amazon would just throw a long time seller under the bus. They truly do not care about any seller. No matter how much in fees you give amazon, they could care less about you. We are now in the process of shutting down our amazon sales for good, and we’ve been on amazon since 2000 when there were only amazon auctions, third party selling didn’t even exist. They are evil. We’ll sell elsewhere.

So… I’ve sent messages more than once to seller support because the postage amount that is set up on the item page is so antiquated& does not even come close to covering the cost to ship the item. They tell me to raise the prices of my items to cover the overages I have to pay for the shipping. So I do this… then months later (after I have spent numerous weeks & hours updating my listings & they start this action. I don’t know about you guys…But I am SO FED UP with Amazon messing with the website & changing things. By the time I pay Amazon (first), then the USPS to ship it, pay the costs for shipping supplies… many times I barely make any profit at all. So how can we be price gouging? I have had many items they have suppressed my item… or made my items inactive… due to prices being too high (not) & someone else on the website has their item listed 10 to 20 times higher than mine (which they removed) & their item is still listed & active & listed for so much more money than mine was that they removed to lower price. Amazon has no idea what each seller’s costs are. Then, for them to constantly keep removing things for us to have to mess with all the time…is time WE DO NOT GET PAID FOR. The people who are price gouging are not the ones they keep messing with. Very frustrating. I have been removing several things because I am not going to list these things for Amazon & the USPS to be the ones who benefit from my sales & my work.

So… still no clarification. Great. Thanks.

Cool, but what about when we’re being flagged for “price gouging” for listing an item at, say, $12.99 and AMAZON IS SELLING IT FOR $17.99?