Products not RF Emitter but Amazon's bot error wants FCC ID anyway
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Products not RF Emitter but Amazon's bot error wants FCC ID anyway

We have several Passive Antenna product listings that were incorrectly removed/restricted due to an Amazon bot false positive error about "FCC ID" and radio frequency emitters.

These are products without electronics in them. Just nuts and bolts, wire, and plastic. No power. No batteries. No chips. No semiconductors. No Radio Frequency emitters. Just a bunch of metal and plastic.

These products received a clean bill of health last week by an FCC Testing Laboratory in California USA, a TCB (Telecommunications Certification Body).

The official FCC testing laboratory issued a Notification of Passive Antenna, "Product is Not A Radio Frequency Emitter".

This Notification Report was submitted to Amazon by attachment to a support case, but the automatic Amazon reply repeated a demand for an FCC ID.

  • "This product has been identified as a radio frequency (RF) device product with an invalid entry in the fcc_radio_ frequency_emission_compliance attribute. For instructions on how to submit an FCC ID..."

This product does not have an FCC ID because the FCC Testing Laboratory (TCB) says it does not require an FCC ID, and because it is not capable of emitting Radio Frequency on its own.

It seems that humans at Amazon FCC compliance team have not seen, or are unable to respond to correct this bot error that is vacuuming up a lot of innocent products.

These are very popular 4.5+ star products with a long history of high Performance and reviews, which have been selling for more than 8 years.

Currently, about a hundred boxes at twenty pounds each, valued at about five hundred bucks each, will be returned at great shipping expense, from FBA Fulfillment Centers around the world... if this bot error is not fixed by an Amazon FCC compliance team.

It also represents great loss to Amazon from the removal of the listings and their associated advertising.

I wonder if some human at Amazon FCC Compliance Team could easily reinstate these listings?

Case ID = 15681455461

Case ID = 15681467911

Case ID = 15681983541

We have already edited and made changes to the listings as the tutorial recommends and gave "the team" time to review the changes. But no Amazon FCC Compliance Team folks ever considered it or looked at the modified text.

We have submitted multiple official evidence and attachments to the cases as proof. No cogent response from Amazon support was received.

A direct appeal to the compliance team is needed, but we have been unsuccessful to get a human compliance team member to respond for the past month of trying.

Has anyone ever recovered from this problem?

We have tried many other means to open a dialog directly with Amazon, but to no avail, so this is our public plea.

Help!

@Cooper_Amazon or @Manny_Amazon or @Glenn_Amazon can you help escalate this?

Help me Obi Wan, you are our only hope :)

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Michelle_Amazon

Hi @Seller_7BBt9qKVORZla,

Michelle at Amazon here. I have reviewed your cases and you will need to update the information on your listings, then reply to the case for them to review it again once you have everything corrected.

If you still need help after you have done all of your updates and they have reviewed and not asked you for more information, let me know and I will be happy to look further.

Have a great weekend!

Yoda....errr I mean Michelle :)

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Michelle_Amazon

Hello @Seller_7BBt9qKVORZla,

The team has gotten back to me and said since your items are considered antennas, they will be required to have the FCC ID's added and the testing attached. You can see how to do that here. Unfortunately, the listings will not be reinstated until you provide this information.

Regards,

Michelle

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