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New product title requirements effective January 21, 2025

We're updating our product title policy to standardize listings and enhance the shopping experience across our stores.

Over time, we’ve observed that product titles have become longer, and they sometimes include redundant wording or characters that can decrease customer confidence. These new policy changes will help ensure that product titles are clear, concise, and consistent.

The following new requirements will take effect on January 21, 2025:

  • For most product categories, titles may not exceed 200 characters, including spaces.
  • The special characters !, $, ?, _, {, }, ^, ¬, and ¦ are not allowed, unless they are part of the brand name.
  • Titles may not contain the same word more than twice. Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions are exceptions.

If you have titles that do not comply with the requirements listed above, we recommend that you update them.

Starting January 21, all title changes will be subject to the updated policy, and you'll be able to view and fix any non-compliant titles in Manage All Inventory.

Additionally, we'll provide override suggestions for non-compliant titles to brand owners in Review Listing Updates. Brand owners will have 14 days to act upon on the suggestions before we update the titles to comply with our requirements. These suggestions will be rolled out gradually.

Your listings will remain active during this process, and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy.

We'll host an Ask Amazon event on January 8, 2025, during which our experts will answer your questions about title requirements on Amazon Seller Forums.

For more information, including character limits by product category and store, go to Product title requirements and guidelines.

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News_Amazon

New product title requirements effective January 21, 2025

We're updating our product title policy to standardize listings and enhance the shopping experience across our stores.

Over time, we’ve observed that product titles have become longer, and they sometimes include redundant wording or characters that can decrease customer confidence. These new policy changes will help ensure that product titles are clear, concise, and consistent.

The following new requirements will take effect on January 21, 2025:

  • For most product categories, titles may not exceed 200 characters, including spaces.
  • The special characters !, $, ?, _, {, }, ^, ¬, and ¦ are not allowed, unless they are part of the brand name.
  • Titles may not contain the same word more than twice. Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions are exceptions.

If you have titles that do not comply with the requirements listed above, we recommend that you update them.

Starting January 21, all title changes will be subject to the updated policy, and you'll be able to view and fix any non-compliant titles in Manage All Inventory.

Additionally, we'll provide override suggestions for non-compliant titles to brand owners in Review Listing Updates. Brand owners will have 14 days to act upon on the suggestions before we update the titles to comply with our requirements. These suggestions will be rolled out gradually.

Your listings will remain active during this process, and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy.

We'll host an Ask Amazon event on January 8, 2025, during which our experts will answer your questions about title requirements on Amazon Seller Forums.

For more information, including character limits by product category and store, go to Product title requirements and guidelines.

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Seller_CTfrCqCwVfPRD
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Just saw the update about the new title policy. Super curious about the "Ask Amazon" event on January 8th. How do we get in on that? Any chance we can drop our questions in advance or is it more of a live Q&A thing? Would love to know the details on how to join in and make sure I don't miss out on the chance to get some of my title questions answered.

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I support what Amazon is trying to do here, but what will actually happen is sellers will get very creative stuffing unique, non-repeating keywords all the way up to the 200 character max.

One question for the mods: Is the | character allowed? I see ¦ is banned but I can't even find that one on the keyboard.

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Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
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My titles have been repeatedly messed with by Amazon -- including (actually, particularly) my brand name/company name -- without notification, often in a manner that degrades the listing, and not in a way that improves compliance with title requirements. This is not going to end well, no matter what reassurances we're given.

This is just another case of Amazon encouraging bad actions -- in this case, non-human-readable, word salad titles that are optimized for on-platform SEO and surfacing -- and then trying to automate a policy to make up for it. Amazon recently announced that they would be deprecating brand names in listings, encouraging sales by word salad rather than reputation, and then this. Who could have ever seen that coming? Just how many petards do you own, Amazon?

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Seller_FM4TuZBO1GUDh
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Here comes the next disaster when you try and update titles and get the..

"Sorry this ASIN is controlled by the brand owner and we have reached out to them to accept the change" when there is no one who is managing those listings or not even actually tied to a brand owner.

So those listings will never be fixed, listings will be taken down, and you will be screwed as always.

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Seller_qMgi7qxvEo7f1
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"we recommend that you update them" - Since Amazon is blocking me to change 90% of my own listings, I can't do that. I would, gladly, but Amazon won't let me do it. So, what do I do then?

"and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy." - It wasn't true for the last couple years. So, Amazon is going to let me edit my listings again? (Unfortunately, I highly doubt that.) :-(

So, all I can do is pray, because there is absolutely nothing I can do, since Amazon made up a new rule that I can't follow, because I want to follow it, but Amazon is not letting me. Could an Amazon rep explain how is that fair?

:-(

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[Moderator Edit: removed off-topic commentary]

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Seller_abvDcTtQNWTq0
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What this means is that there will be a LOT of suppressed listings that could be nearly impossible to fix unless you are the brand owner.

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Seller_aNsixtdBpnLRG
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Very likely I'll be out of country and cannot make that meeting - here are a few of my inputs for the 'team' to address. And how will I know that they have been addressed in any way? Posting a transcript or link to the exchange that transpired?

Who are the 'experts' that will be answering the questions? Will they just be reading from a prepared document with NO ability to make changes as these 'experts' have have no ability to make any changes - only read from the script even if the reply does not address the question posed to them?

We cannot make changes NOW to 'our' listings as the original listing person/company is long gone and we are selling on the generic listing -

Why did they decide to hide this massive change to the database by placing one line in the "News" section and NOT a banner at logging in and an email blast?

Will the Chinese sellers also be held to the same standard or are they exempt? OR is this a way to mess with the Chinese sellers that word stuff their listings and make them even less likely to get sales - thereby encouraging them to hack listings instead?

I can see this as a major field day for hackers to gain traction as sellers that miss the announcement or are busy making changes and cannot get to all of their listings in 2 weeks and learn their listings are now out of their control

So all the generic listings with multiple sellers - Where no one has control - WTH happens to those listings? Word salad? or taken down? and no sales for anyone?

Who decided 200 count was the 'correct amount'? Will Brand names with duplicate word(s) as the item be allowed in the Title?

What happens when the same content for all Child Listings use the same Title with color/size or other qualifier and BOTs think it is a duplicate listing?

Clearly 2 weeks if you only have a couple of listings might be fine but those that have thousand's are you going to cut them any slack? How about those sellers that are on Pause for any reason? From on vacation - to in hospital? or those that use a 3P to pull down and process orders and Do NOT see the small print in the NEWS section about the change? Heck I had not logged in for a few days and just happened to glance at that title.

And if the BOTS don't like the changes made by a Brand Owner - what happens to those Listings?

What happens if this platform is not ready to accept all the changes during the 2 weeks and is overloaded and servers crash?

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Seller_Jp3bg4Vcfa4r2
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What if it is a book title such as "Mirror Mirror" or "One Plus One" or any other of numerous titles? It may be fine if it has an ISBN, but what about older books?

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Seller_JBzSiyPJtoXCC
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Actually, after reading this policy, I would like to know

1. whether all old product names need to be changed according to the new regulation? But can the Amazon system guarantee the stability of the link while receiving the link change operation?

2. Regarding the words that cannot be repeated in the product name, I hope this definition can be more detailed. (except prepositions, articles, conjunctions), your definition is too broad.

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New product title requirements effective January 21, 2025

We're updating our product title policy to standardize listings and enhance the shopping experience across our stores.

Over time, we’ve observed that product titles have become longer, and they sometimes include redundant wording or characters that can decrease customer confidence. These new policy changes will help ensure that product titles are clear, concise, and consistent.

The following new requirements will take effect on January 21, 2025:

  • For most product categories, titles may not exceed 200 characters, including spaces.
  • The special characters !, $, ?, _, {, }, ^, ¬, and ¦ are not allowed, unless they are part of the brand name.
  • Titles may not contain the same word more than twice. Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions are exceptions.

If you have titles that do not comply with the requirements listed above, we recommend that you update them.

Starting January 21, all title changes will be subject to the updated policy, and you'll be able to view and fix any non-compliant titles in Manage All Inventory.

Additionally, we'll provide override suggestions for non-compliant titles to brand owners in Review Listing Updates. Brand owners will have 14 days to act upon on the suggestions before we update the titles to comply with our requirements. These suggestions will be rolled out gradually.

Your listings will remain active during this process, and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy.

We'll host an Ask Amazon event on January 8, 2025, during which our experts will answer your questions about title requirements on Amazon Seller Forums.

For more information, including character limits by product category and store, go to Product title requirements and guidelines.

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News_Amazon

New product title requirements effective January 21, 2025

We're updating our product title policy to standardize listings and enhance the shopping experience across our stores.

Over time, we’ve observed that product titles have become longer, and they sometimes include redundant wording or characters that can decrease customer confidence. These new policy changes will help ensure that product titles are clear, concise, and consistent.

The following new requirements will take effect on January 21, 2025:

  • For most product categories, titles may not exceed 200 characters, including spaces.
  • The special characters !, $, ?, _, {, }, ^, ¬, and ¦ are not allowed, unless they are part of the brand name.
  • Titles may not contain the same word more than twice. Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions are exceptions.

If you have titles that do not comply with the requirements listed above, we recommend that you update them.

Starting January 21, all title changes will be subject to the updated policy, and you'll be able to view and fix any non-compliant titles in Manage All Inventory.

Additionally, we'll provide override suggestions for non-compliant titles to brand owners in Review Listing Updates. Brand owners will have 14 days to act upon on the suggestions before we update the titles to comply with our requirements. These suggestions will be rolled out gradually.

Your listings will remain active during this process, and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy.

We'll host an Ask Amazon event on January 8, 2025, during which our experts will answer your questions about title requirements on Amazon Seller Forums.

For more information, including character limits by product category and store, go to Product title requirements and guidelines.

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New product title requirements effective January 21, 2025

by News_Amazon

We're updating our product title policy to standardize listings and enhance the shopping experience across our stores.

Over time, we’ve observed that product titles have become longer, and they sometimes include redundant wording or characters that can decrease customer confidence. These new policy changes will help ensure that product titles are clear, concise, and consistent.

The following new requirements will take effect on January 21, 2025:

  • For most product categories, titles may not exceed 200 characters, including spaces.
  • The special characters !, $, ?, _, {, }, ^, ¬, and ¦ are not allowed, unless they are part of the brand name.
  • Titles may not contain the same word more than twice. Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions are exceptions.

If you have titles that do not comply with the requirements listed above, we recommend that you update them.

Starting January 21, all title changes will be subject to the updated policy, and you'll be able to view and fix any non-compliant titles in Manage All Inventory.

Additionally, we'll provide override suggestions for non-compliant titles to brand owners in Review Listing Updates. Brand owners will have 14 days to act upon on the suggestions before we update the titles to comply with our requirements. These suggestions will be rolled out gradually.

Your listings will remain active during this process, and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy.

We'll host an Ask Amazon event on January 8, 2025, during which our experts will answer your questions about title requirements on Amazon Seller Forums.

For more information, including character limits by product category and store, go to Product title requirements and guidelines.

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Seller_CTfrCqCwVfPRD
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Just saw the update about the new title policy. Super curious about the "Ask Amazon" event on January 8th. How do we get in on that? Any chance we can drop our questions in advance or is it more of a live Q&A thing? Would love to know the details on how to join in and make sure I don't miss out on the chance to get some of my title questions answered.

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I support what Amazon is trying to do here, but what will actually happen is sellers will get very creative stuffing unique, non-repeating keywords all the way up to the 200 character max.

One question for the mods: Is the | character allowed? I see ¦ is banned but I can't even find that one on the keyboard.

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Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
In reply to: News_Amazon's post

My titles have been repeatedly messed with by Amazon -- including (actually, particularly) my brand name/company name -- without notification, often in a manner that degrades the listing, and not in a way that improves compliance with title requirements. This is not going to end well, no matter what reassurances we're given.

This is just another case of Amazon encouraging bad actions -- in this case, non-human-readable, word salad titles that are optimized for on-platform SEO and surfacing -- and then trying to automate a policy to make up for it. Amazon recently announced that they would be deprecating brand names in listings, encouraging sales by word salad rather than reputation, and then this. Who could have ever seen that coming? Just how many petards do you own, Amazon?

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Seller_FM4TuZBO1GUDh
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Here comes the next disaster when you try and update titles and get the..

"Sorry this ASIN is controlled by the brand owner and we have reached out to them to accept the change" when there is no one who is managing those listings or not even actually tied to a brand owner.

So those listings will never be fixed, listings will be taken down, and you will be screwed as always.

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Seller_qMgi7qxvEo7f1
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"we recommend that you update them" - Since Amazon is blocking me to change 90% of my own listings, I can't do that. I would, gladly, but Amazon won't let me do it. So, what do I do then?

"and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy." - It wasn't true for the last couple years. So, Amazon is going to let me edit my listings again? (Unfortunately, I highly doubt that.) :-(

So, all I can do is pray, because there is absolutely nothing I can do, since Amazon made up a new rule that I can't follow, because I want to follow it, but Amazon is not letting me. Could an Amazon rep explain how is that fair?

:-(

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Seller_tZJo8PvgHyd8X
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[Moderator Edit: removed off-topic commentary]

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Seller_abvDcTtQNWTq0
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What this means is that there will be a LOT of suppressed listings that could be nearly impossible to fix unless you are the brand owner.

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Seller_aNsixtdBpnLRG
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Very likely I'll be out of country and cannot make that meeting - here are a few of my inputs for the 'team' to address. And how will I know that they have been addressed in any way? Posting a transcript or link to the exchange that transpired?

Who are the 'experts' that will be answering the questions? Will they just be reading from a prepared document with NO ability to make changes as these 'experts' have have no ability to make any changes - only read from the script even if the reply does not address the question posed to them?

We cannot make changes NOW to 'our' listings as the original listing person/company is long gone and we are selling on the generic listing -

Why did they decide to hide this massive change to the database by placing one line in the "News" section and NOT a banner at logging in and an email blast?

Will the Chinese sellers also be held to the same standard or are they exempt? OR is this a way to mess with the Chinese sellers that word stuff their listings and make them even less likely to get sales - thereby encouraging them to hack listings instead?

I can see this as a major field day for hackers to gain traction as sellers that miss the announcement or are busy making changes and cannot get to all of their listings in 2 weeks and learn their listings are now out of their control

So all the generic listings with multiple sellers - Where no one has control - WTH happens to those listings? Word salad? or taken down? and no sales for anyone?

Who decided 200 count was the 'correct amount'? Will Brand names with duplicate word(s) as the item be allowed in the Title?

What happens when the same content for all Child Listings use the same Title with color/size or other qualifier and BOTs think it is a duplicate listing?

Clearly 2 weeks if you only have a couple of listings might be fine but those that have thousand's are you going to cut them any slack? How about those sellers that are on Pause for any reason? From on vacation - to in hospital? or those that use a 3P to pull down and process orders and Do NOT see the small print in the NEWS section about the change? Heck I had not logged in for a few days and just happened to glance at that title.

And if the BOTS don't like the changes made by a Brand Owner - what happens to those Listings?

What happens if this platform is not ready to accept all the changes during the 2 weeks and is overloaded and servers crash?

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Seller_Jp3bg4Vcfa4r2
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What if it is a book title such as "Mirror Mirror" or "One Plus One" or any other of numerous titles? It may be fine if it has an ISBN, but what about older books?

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Seller_JBzSiyPJtoXCC
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Actually, after reading this policy, I would like to know

1. whether all old product names need to be changed according to the new regulation? But can the Amazon system guarantee the stability of the link while receiving the link change operation?

2. Regarding the words that cannot be repeated in the product name, I hope this definition can be more detailed. (except prepositions, articles, conjunctions), your definition is too broad.

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Seller_CTfrCqCwVfPRD
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Just saw the update about the new title policy. Super curious about the "Ask Amazon" event on January 8th. How do we get in on that? Any chance we can drop our questions in advance or is it more of a live Q&A thing? Would love to know the details on how to join in and make sure I don't miss out on the chance to get some of my title questions answered.

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Seller_CTfrCqCwVfPRD
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Just saw the update about the new title policy. Super curious about the "Ask Amazon" event on January 8th. How do we get in on that? Any chance we can drop our questions in advance or is it more of a live Q&A thing? Would love to know the details on how to join in and make sure I don't miss out on the chance to get some of my title questions answered.

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I support what Amazon is trying to do here, but what will actually happen is sellers will get very creative stuffing unique, non-repeating keywords all the way up to the 200 character max.

One question for the mods: Is the | character allowed? I see ¦ is banned but I can't even find that one on the keyboard.

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Seller_LVZcgxAgZ2xBv
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These new policy changes will help ensure that product titles are clear, concise, and consistent.
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I support what Amazon is trying to do here, but what will actually happen is sellers will get very creative stuffing unique, non-repeating keywords all the way up to the 200 character max.

One question for the mods: Is the | character allowed? I see ¦ is banned but I can't even find that one on the keyboard.

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Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
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My titles have been repeatedly messed with by Amazon -- including (actually, particularly) my brand name/company name -- without notification, often in a manner that degrades the listing, and not in a way that improves compliance with title requirements. This is not going to end well, no matter what reassurances we're given.

This is just another case of Amazon encouraging bad actions -- in this case, non-human-readable, word salad titles that are optimized for on-platform SEO and surfacing -- and then trying to automate a policy to make up for it. Amazon recently announced that they would be deprecating brand names in listings, encouraging sales by word salad rather than reputation, and then this. Who could have ever seen that coming? Just how many petards do you own, Amazon?

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Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
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My titles have been repeatedly messed with by Amazon -- including (actually, particularly) my brand name/company name -- without notification, often in a manner that degrades the listing, and not in a way that improves compliance with title requirements. This is not going to end well, no matter what reassurances we're given.

This is just another case of Amazon encouraging bad actions -- in this case, non-human-readable, word salad titles that are optimized for on-platform SEO and surfacing -- and then trying to automate a policy to make up for it. Amazon recently announced that they would be deprecating brand names in listings, encouraging sales by word salad rather than reputation, and then this. Who could have ever seen that coming? Just how many petards do you own, Amazon?

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Seller_FM4TuZBO1GUDh
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Here comes the next disaster when you try and update titles and get the..

"Sorry this ASIN is controlled by the brand owner and we have reached out to them to accept the change" when there is no one who is managing those listings or not even actually tied to a brand owner.

So those listings will never be fixed, listings will be taken down, and you will be screwed as always.

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Seller_FM4TuZBO1GUDh
In reply to: News_Amazon's post

Here comes the next disaster when you try and update titles and get the..

"Sorry this ASIN is controlled by the brand owner and we have reached out to them to accept the change" when there is no one who is managing those listings or not even actually tied to a brand owner.

So those listings will never be fixed, listings will be taken down, and you will be screwed as always.

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Seller_qMgi7qxvEo7f1
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"we recommend that you update them" - Since Amazon is blocking me to change 90% of my own listings, I can't do that. I would, gladly, but Amazon won't let me do it. So, what do I do then?

"and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy." - It wasn't true for the last couple years. So, Amazon is going to let me edit my listings again? (Unfortunately, I highly doubt that.) :-(

So, all I can do is pray, because there is absolutely nothing I can do, since Amazon made up a new rule that I can't follow, because I want to follow it, but Amazon is not letting me. Could an Amazon rep explain how is that fair?

:-(

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Seller_qMgi7qxvEo7f1
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"we recommend that you update them" - Since Amazon is blocking me to change 90% of my own listings, I can't do that. I would, gladly, but Amazon won't let me do it. So, what do I do then?

"and you’ll still be able to make edits to your product titles as long as your changes comply with the new policy." - It wasn't true for the last couple years. So, Amazon is going to let me edit my listings again? (Unfortunately, I highly doubt that.) :-(

So, all I can do is pray, because there is absolutely nothing I can do, since Amazon made up a new rule that I can't follow, because I want to follow it, but Amazon is not letting me. Could an Amazon rep explain how is that fair?

:-(

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Seller_tZJo8PvgHyd8X
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[Moderator Edit: removed off-topic commentary]

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[Moderator Edit: removed off-topic commentary]

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Seller_abvDcTtQNWTq0
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What this means is that there will be a LOT of suppressed listings that could be nearly impossible to fix unless you are the brand owner.

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Seller_abvDcTtQNWTq0
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What this means is that there will be a LOT of suppressed listings that could be nearly impossible to fix unless you are the brand owner.

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Seller_aNsixtdBpnLRG
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Very likely I'll be out of country and cannot make that meeting - here are a few of my inputs for the 'team' to address. And how will I know that they have been addressed in any way? Posting a transcript or link to the exchange that transpired?

Who are the 'experts' that will be answering the questions? Will they just be reading from a prepared document with NO ability to make changes as these 'experts' have have no ability to make any changes - only read from the script even if the reply does not address the question posed to them?

We cannot make changes NOW to 'our' listings as the original listing person/company is long gone and we are selling on the generic listing -

Why did they decide to hide this massive change to the database by placing one line in the "News" section and NOT a banner at logging in and an email blast?

Will the Chinese sellers also be held to the same standard or are they exempt? OR is this a way to mess with the Chinese sellers that word stuff their listings and make them even less likely to get sales - thereby encouraging them to hack listings instead?

I can see this as a major field day for hackers to gain traction as sellers that miss the announcement or are busy making changes and cannot get to all of their listings in 2 weeks and learn their listings are now out of their control

So all the generic listings with multiple sellers - Where no one has control - WTH happens to those listings? Word salad? or taken down? and no sales for anyone?

Who decided 200 count was the 'correct amount'? Will Brand names with duplicate word(s) as the item be allowed in the Title?

What happens when the same content for all Child Listings use the same Title with color/size or other qualifier and BOTs think it is a duplicate listing?

Clearly 2 weeks if you only have a couple of listings might be fine but those that have thousand's are you going to cut them any slack? How about those sellers that are on Pause for any reason? From on vacation - to in hospital? or those that use a 3P to pull down and process orders and Do NOT see the small print in the NEWS section about the change? Heck I had not logged in for a few days and just happened to glance at that title.

And if the BOTS don't like the changes made by a Brand Owner - what happens to those Listings?

What happens if this platform is not ready to accept all the changes during the 2 weeks and is overloaded and servers crash?

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Seller_aNsixtdBpnLRG
In reply to: News_Amazon's post

Very likely I'll be out of country and cannot make that meeting - here are a few of my inputs for the 'team' to address. And how will I know that they have been addressed in any way? Posting a transcript or link to the exchange that transpired?

Who are the 'experts' that will be answering the questions? Will they just be reading from a prepared document with NO ability to make changes as these 'experts' have have no ability to make any changes - only read from the script even if the reply does not address the question posed to them?

We cannot make changes NOW to 'our' listings as the original listing person/company is long gone and we are selling on the generic listing -

Why did they decide to hide this massive change to the database by placing one line in the "News" section and NOT a banner at logging in and an email blast?

Will the Chinese sellers also be held to the same standard or are they exempt? OR is this a way to mess with the Chinese sellers that word stuff their listings and make them even less likely to get sales - thereby encouraging them to hack listings instead?

I can see this as a major field day for hackers to gain traction as sellers that miss the announcement or are busy making changes and cannot get to all of their listings in 2 weeks and learn their listings are now out of their control

So all the generic listings with multiple sellers - Where no one has control - WTH happens to those listings? Word salad? or taken down? and no sales for anyone?

Who decided 200 count was the 'correct amount'? Will Brand names with duplicate word(s) as the item be allowed in the Title?

What happens when the same content for all Child Listings use the same Title with color/size or other qualifier and BOTs think it is a duplicate listing?

Clearly 2 weeks if you only have a couple of listings might be fine but those that have thousand's are you going to cut them any slack? How about those sellers that are on Pause for any reason? From on vacation - to in hospital? or those that use a 3P to pull down and process orders and Do NOT see the small print in the NEWS section about the change? Heck I had not logged in for a few days and just happened to glance at that title.

And if the BOTS don't like the changes made by a Brand Owner - what happens to those Listings?

What happens if this platform is not ready to accept all the changes during the 2 weeks and is overloaded and servers crash?

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What if it is a book title such as "Mirror Mirror" or "One Plus One" or any other of numerous titles? It may be fine if it has an ISBN, but what about older books?

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What if it is a book title such as "Mirror Mirror" or "One Plus One" or any other of numerous titles? It may be fine if it has an ISBN, but what about older books?

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Seller_JBzSiyPJtoXCC
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Actually, after reading this policy, I would like to know

1. whether all old product names need to be changed according to the new regulation? But can the Amazon system guarantee the stability of the link while receiving the link change operation?

2. Regarding the words that cannot be repeated in the product name, I hope this definition can be more detailed. (except prepositions, articles, conjunctions), your definition is too broad.

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Seller_JBzSiyPJtoXCC
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Actually, after reading this policy, I would like to know

1. whether all old product names need to be changed according to the new regulation? But can the Amazon system guarantee the stability of the link while receiving the link change operation?

2. Regarding the words that cannot be repeated in the product name, I hope this definition can be more detailed. (except prepositions, articles, conjunctions), your definition is too broad.

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