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[Now Closed] Ask Amazon - GET ANSWERS on the New Handmade Listing Experience on January 30th
Welcome to our Ask Amazon Q&A with the Handmade partner team, focusing on your questions about the New Handmade Listing Experience!
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⚡️ What You Need to Know:
The Handmade partner team will answer all your questions posted in this event thread on Thursday, January 30th from 8 am - 5 pm PST.
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🔍 Key Details:
Amazon Handmade recently launched a new listing experience for Handmade products. The new experience provides Makers with added features and tools to showcase their handcrafted goods, which may improve products’ discoverability and increase their sales. To create a product on Amazon Handmade, sellers will use the standard Amazon listing experience with a new “Handmade Classification” attribute. Have any questions about the new listing experience? Please provide them as a reply in this event thread.
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💡 Submit questions below!
Post all your questions below! Our partner team will be reviewing the questions that come in throughout the day (as well as those submitted in advance), and we’ll do our best to respond as soon as possible during the day of the event.
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Note: We cannot provide legal advice or otherwise interpret regulatory requirements on situations that are specific to individual sellers.
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Seller_uoKo6gKUhzSSC
How does all of these changes effect our existing ads? Should we now create all new ads and start over?
Seller_uoKo6gKUhzSSC
Now that our items are lumped together with everything else will they start requiring us to pay the monthly fee?
Should we incorporate the word "Handmade" in all of our listing titles?
Seller_dp3fxU2t5Qzxf
I'm just starting again after a year away from listing products so I'm not sure how to list a handmade product with the new Handmade Classification' attribute. Is there a instruction video or sheet?
Seller_r7s6JmFDhqTPR
A few years back I went through the approval process to sell a veggie capsule holder on Handmade. We had to fill out an application with photos and a description of the product and it's uses. It was approved and we started selling the capsule holders. Sometime in the last year we received notification from Amazon that our capsule holder was considered drug paraphernalia and we could no longer sell the holder. I have been into natural solutions and more specifically essential oils for many years and found a need in the essential oil community for a device that could be used to make and also store the capsules. I don't understand why our product was considered drug paraphenialia when there are so many common household items that could be used for drug making, etc. and which continue to be still widely sold on Amazon. A cup for instance could be used as a tool in drug making. A bad person can make anything into a tool to do bad things. Is there anything I can do to possibly start selling our product again? Thank you for your help!
Seller_gteZKuDLAvhzH
Is there a cheat sheet on how to add new products? Something in english (not computer speak) that helps us to create great listings for products we already have selling well on other platforms?
Seller_HbrZEJiNAiv0M
I would also like to know if we will be required to pay the $39.99 fee per month that normal sellers have to pay. I have had so few sales since the reclassification began that could put me under completely.
Joey_Amazon
Hey @Seller_HbrZEJiNAiv0M,
Thank you for participating in our Ask Amazon event!
The Handmade team has confirmed that the Professional monthly fee won't be charged for Handmade approved sellers.
Thank you,
Joey
Seller_HqvjYfAL5DBvj
How am I to reattach variations back to parent listings? I’ve had every listing separate out the variations into stand-alone listings, even though when I “edit” the parent listing, all the variations still show up together there. I’ve tried fixing via file upload, but it hasn’t resolved. Also, my Category Listings Report still has all my products under “guildtoysandgames” even though they have been reclassified to different categories. Am I supposed to be putting the new product_type/category in the inventory file upload?
Seller_TpHSFFqXT475e
If I copy an existing listing, assuming all my ASIN's have been converted to the new format, will these new listings have the new "handmade classification".
Seller_Qp7D09NCRbW7u
We were told by Handmade team that the title still supposed to be: BRAND NAME + HANDMADE + DESCRIPTION
Now in this document: Quick Start Style Guide: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/rainier/help/Selling_on_Amazon_Quick_Start_Style_Guide_2018.pdf
It says "Do not include information about yourself or your company. If you own the brand, put your brand information in the brand field. "
Amazon strips my brand name from the listing, just wondering if its even needed?
Which is it?
Seller_Qp7D09NCRbW7u
Will we eventually have to remake the "converted listings?" They look so different from the "new listings." I just have this sinking feeling that were going to get one of those emails that all "converted listings" will need to be deleted and remade so they appear visually like the "New Listings" and of course that email will likely give us 10 days to comply. Just feel it coming, like the white background requirement did, when handmade wasn't required to have white background photos.
And speaking of that, why do so many of the top 100 best sellers their main image is not on a white background? Why is preferential treatment being given to these "Handmade" Sellers that have 6000 sales this month.
Seller_ERE3hTXMWyLhd
Will Amazon be responding to our questions here in this thread, or do I need to go somewhere else to view your replies?
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