I HATE the new "Manage All Inventory" Page. What about you?
I really HATE the new "Manage All Inventory" Page. I had sent my suggestions through the "feedback" in that page many times, but I'm really not sure if a real human Amazon employee could get a chance to read it.
The new "Manage All Inventory" Page lists the products in a dynamic way--i.e. it puts the best selling variations on top, and only displays 10 products in one page. (For us, the "Manage All Inventory" contains 142 pages! )
This makes it very hard (if it's possible) for one just wanted to have a glance of all existing products by the seller. This is a very common scenario at least for us: over 90% of time when we visit this page, we just wanted to check which products need to be replenished.
Imaging a seller who has 20 products, and each product has 40-60 variations. The seller wants to have a quick check for products A, B, and C, to see how many of its variations need to be replenished. She opens the new "Manage All Inventory", since her top selling products are product E and many of the variations of E and others. She clicks page after page looking for a variation of product A, then clicks the "Variation Family details", and then clicks page after page to find which variations need to be replenished... With the old "manage all products" page, this was just a few clicks to expand or close the parent products, she can get the data in a couple of minutes. But with the new fancy dynamic design, this becomes a nightmare. She may have spent hours and still could not find the product variation she needs to see.
I wonder whether Amazon did any usability test for such design. Using it as a seller, I think it's a totally failure. It makes a simple thing difficult, it wastes our time, and test the limit of our patience.
86 replies
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
Yep, hate it. Although for totally different reasons than you.
I sell only used books; so for each ASIN, 99.9% of the time I will have only one copy, so only one sku.
Because I write detailed notes for each book, and research each one before listing, I list them one at a time, assigning a sku to each as I list. In the old page, it would refresh with a notice that my listing was created, with the sku; so I could easily reference that for the next book I listed.
With the new page, not only is there no confirmation of the listing being created, when it finally shows up in the list, it's not even at the top of the list where I can easily see it!
I've not played around with it a lot, as I have work to do and just go back to the old page while I can. But I'm not even sure if I'll be able to send books to FBA once I'm forced to use this page, because I don't know if I can sort a group to select to convert to FBA.
And don't get me started on using weirdly placed drop-down menus for the sorting, instead of the been-standard-for-three-decades method of simply clicking the header of a column to sort on that column. This page looks like it was designed by someone who just saw Windows 3.0 for the first time.
Seller_HoZF0vVZvEP0Q
Yes, I hate the new format. It displays very few rows at a time. Makes it hard to see many listing at one time. I complained when it first came out by opening a case. Of course, it didn't make any difference, but at least I gave my negative feedback.
Seller_keSnEDesLFVwv
“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL..."
― Harlan Ellison
I hate the new inventory page because it does not display the featured offer eligibility. There is a checkbox to turn this on, but it does not work.
Seller_vWqLG3u4GGJFA
The new "Manage All Inventory Page" is FINALLY just what I needed to finally sever my last remaining connection with Amazon. It had to have been built by nerds, FOR nerds, and no one else. Abysmally-complex and beyond comprehension. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS CHANGE! It is the worst.
Seller_8bKTbjGobJoAL
At first. I thought why fix what isn't broke. But after playing around with it for awhile it was fine. just seemed the same as the old one. So, what's the point?
Seller_j76iIv8FPzg0y
hate it too. dont understand why they did that. cannot understand why they make all the variation released on the list instead of the old way fold and unfold parent variations. first thought was like, probably the westen people or most people in the world think and do in a different way. but now,obviously no matter where your from, normal people think the same way, and abnormal think the abnormal way..
Seller_xwzQL0khly72e
everyone in the universe hates it. Expect to be forced to use it on schedule, as always happens.
Seller_uk2qDyGo5ODRV
Amazon is not here to support you, they are here to torment you. (and take as much of your money as they can before you get disgusted and leave)
