I am not currently facing any violation, but I am hearing about an increased amount of sellers having their LEGITIMATE invoices denied by Seller Support because their invoices are not from the last 365 days.

This policy cripples several business models, and prevents third party sellers from bringing hard to find inventory to Amazon's customers.

One of the great things about being an Amazon customer is that you can find discontinued products that are no longer made by the manufacturer and trust that it is authentic. The more that this arbitrary rule is enforced, the less products Amazon's customers would have access to.

Think of the tens if not hundreds of thousands of collectibles and books on the platform that have been discontinued over a year ago - how would sellers be able to provide invoices from the last 365 days? All of those products would technically be erased from the platform if invoices were required right now.

I suggest that when combatting any sort of infringement that requires invoices, there should be a box you can check that says something along the lines of "I acknowledge my invoices are older than 365 days" and then you can input an explanation for why they are older than a year. This will allow Seller Support to focus on the real issues, such as authenticity of said invoice, rather than just rejecting them because of their age.

I hope this suggestion can be escalated to a team that receives feedback, because I am hearing a lot of rumblings of sellers considering moving their inventory to other platforms for fear of a bogus claim from an abusive customer causing issues related to this.

Thank you.

NOTE: For this discussion, I am not talking about un-gating. I understand the need for recent invoices for un-gating. This topic pertains to account health violations caused by bogus claims from customers.