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Share your Voice (Quick Survey)
by Seller_FJwyF3iu5qxUY

Hey Handmade Sellers,

We'd like to hear from you! We've put together a brief survey (just 2-5 minutes) to gather your valuable feedback and help us improve your selling experience on Handmade.

Your insights are crucial in shaping the future of our platform. Ready to share your thoughts? Please click the link below to participate in the survey.

[Click HERE]

Thank you for your time,

Handmade Team

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GTIN Exemption for Prints
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I have been trying to obtain GTIN exemption for my print brand but, unfortunately, I have not been successful so far — and I am starting to lose hope that I will be able to resolve this on my own.

I carefully followed the instructions in the application process and submitted clear images of the printed product, the branded packaging, and the mailing tubes I use for shipping.

In the rejection email, I was asked to:

“Provide images of all six sides of the product and tags, unless it’s not possible to capture a six-sided image (for example, a scarf). Please stretch the poster and take a photo of the back of the stretched poster.”

I complied with this request, sending photos of the poster’s back side as well. However, I then received another rejection email, this time including these points:

• Provide images of all six sides of the product and tags, unless it’s not possible to capture a six-sided image (for example, a scarf). Please stretch the poster and take a photo of the back of the stretched poster.

• The product or its packaging must not have a GS1-certified barcode. If a valid GS1-certified barcode is available, you can use it to list products instead of requesting a GTIN exemption. (It does not have this)

At this point, I even photographed the side view of the product (yes, I took pictures of ~ 0.4 mm thick sheet of paper) and submitted it. Yet I received the same rejection response with these points:

  • Branding is permanently affixed on the packaging and/or product.
  • You should provide images of all sides of the product and tags unless a 6-sided image cannot exist (for example, a scarf).

I am starting to feel unsure whether my submission is being reviewed by a real person or an automated system, and I am not sure what more I can do to meet the requirements.

I would kindly like to ask for assistance from a moderator or support representative who can guide me through this process and help clarify what is expected.

These are the last three IDs for my rejected applications:

17452345871

17451878551

17450887751

Thank you for your attention and help in advance.

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How is everyones sales in 2025
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I've read forums and heard people discuss "what recession, my sales in 2024 were so high!" BUT how are peoples sales going so far in 2025.

The back and forth with tariffs are making my head spin and i'm unsure if customers are freaking out and not really buying on Amazon. I noticed returns are super high! My sales some days are high and some days are low. They used to be consistent.

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Suspected Intellectual Property Violation
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Hello, this is maybe my 4th post about these. The AI has sent me a violation again. If I edit or delete the listing it still affects my account health. What am I to do? Many times simple words like therapy, vincent van gogh and the word Sakura (sakura tree paintings its spring time) get me in trouble. When I speak to people over the phone nothing helps. They seem to not want to resolve the issue and only get me off the phone. Also they are overseas and some do not know who vincent van gogh is. Now my account health is very low 220 and getting lower every suspected AI guess. This is my full time job and I am very nervous to lose it and its causing me lots of stress. I have posted for over a year the same issue. What can be done?

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Individual seller name and address privacy
by Seller_YUgnsazKchWHj

Hello,

Is anyone else struggling to understand Amazon's policy around individual seller privacy and what to do about it? Specifically I'm referring to the fact that my personal name and address are published in my Amazon Marketplace page, and Amazon seems to want it that way. This to me seems completely hostile to sole proprietorships. I'm very uneasy about this, as it seems like just a matter of time before a scammer uses the information against me. I've already started getting marketing mail from legitimate companies; which tells me I'm now a target. Is anyone else having these concerns / have you solved for it?

Regards

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Next month Amazon is changing its seller reimbursement policy for FBA inventory lost or damaged in an Amazon warehouse. The current per item reimbursement amount - sales price minus applicable fees - seems pretty reasonable to me. In contrast, the new policy is extremely unfair to Handmade sellers.

Beginning on March 10, when Amazon loses or damages an item they will reimburse sellers “based on the product manufacturing cost of the affected inventory.” Unless we provide supporting documentation, Amazon will “estimate” our manufacturing costs and reimburse us accordingly.

To some extent I understand the new policy when applied to sellers who simply source a finished product from a third party and resell that item on Amazon. As anyone reading this appreciates, the problem is that the process of manufacturing handmade products bears little resemblance to purchasing finished products from third parties. Submitting documentation to Amazon with respect to manufacturing costs is going to be a nightmare for Handmade sellers. More importantly, creating handmade products takes a significant amount of time. Does anyone honestly believe that Amazon will take this time into consideration when determining an item’s manufacturing cost?

So here’s my question - can the appropriate people from the Amazon Handmade Team please act on our behalf in order to have Handmade sellers exempted from the new FBA reimbursement policy? I’m probably just shouting into the void here, but you never know…

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The customer left the wrong address, so she couldn't receive the package.

As a result, she turned the tables on us and claimed that we had sent the item to the wrong address. She then filed a A-to-z Guarantee Claims , and Amazon approved it. I lodged an appeal, but Amazon stated that it was our fault. They still decided to approve the customer's application and took the initiative to refund the customer. And as a result, the status of my account has been affected.

How do you all handle such situations? Have you encountered such situations frequently? Are we just supposed to passively accept it? Is there any good solution?

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I have many asin's that are SFP with 1-2 day delivery, and the shipping template is set to ship the same day.

The PDP says "usually ships within 2 to 3 weeks" right underneath "Prime ONE-DAY delivery TOMORROW"

This is very confusing and misleading to customers.

This displays on many of my SFP listing, sometimes says "ships within 2 to 3 days" or "4 to 5 days" and so on, even though they ALL use the same shipping template and ALL offer 1-2 day delivery.

NOTE: Many of my listings had the Custom manual exempt handling time until passing and qualifying for SFP at Christmas (at which point the listings became SFP and have been SFP since Christmas). It seems as if the manual exemption handling time is still hanging around in the system instead of letting SFP completely "take over" all the shipping/delivery elements that SFP is supposed to control on the PDP.

I have Case ID 17477701811, and as usual I received a completely irrelevant response talking about promise delivery extensions 🤦‍♀️ That is clearly NOT the issue here, whatsoever.

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Wasted Ad money
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What is the point of paying for descriptive keywords when Amazon places your products WRONG?? Shows them to the wrong audience .Total waste of money. Or they show half priced overseas knock offs of your HANDMADE product after someone actually clicked on your add? We’re basically advertising for our competition at this point. Also... How do we run out of Ad spend after a few hours but overseas people paying for the same keywords run their ads 24-7? We know how much the same keywords cost and what our margin is. How can they do it literally fro HALF ???Looks like Amazon favors non American sellers if you aks me. Typical. AMAZON REPLY TO THIS AND DONT JUST DODGE ME BY LOCKING THE THREAD!

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Brand or Seller?
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@Seller_FJwyF3iu5qxUY I noticed something very interesting in the right hand menu in search.

My brand is USPTO trademarked. Registered with Amazon brand registry for years and yet I am only considered a seller? Hmmm... Who/What is determining this? Do I need to pay extra to get my brand shown under brands? Why am I only showing under seller?

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Product updates
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Why does it it take so long to update, add a photo, add a customazation etc.. ??? I did a few updates to listings 2 days ago and they still are NOT updated. Every other platform we sell on updates in almost real time. 15 min maximum. Why is the largest online selling platform such a pain to sell on? I guess that’s what you get when you fire humans and rely on AI to do their job. Ridiculous to say the least.

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Welcome to the Handmade Community, the place where makers share why Handmade is one of a kind!

Like the products you sell, members of the Handmade Community are unique, with special guidelines and questions. The Handmade Community helps makers find success selling in Amazon’s online store by providing an exclusive space where you can learn from and share knowledge with other makers who understand why Handmade is one of a kind.

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