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As a seller: Yes, sometimes they'll suspend an offer if they think it's a mistake, they send a pricing notification. However, it's easy to relist at that price
by ikeboy 9y ago
As a seller:
Yes, sometimes they'll suspend an offer if they think it's a mistake, they send a pricing notification. However, it's easy to relist at that price if you really want to, you just need to put a min and Max price in their system, and as long as your price is in between they'll accept it. The reason for this is if sellers make a fat finger mistake, so it makes sense they have a way to override.
Separately, they sometimes suppress the buy box if the price is over MSRP or more than other retailers. For a current example, see https://www.amazon.com/CollEGGtibles-12-Pack-Egg-Carton-Season/dp/B06X9P3Y8V/ https://www.amazon.com/CollEGGtibles-12-Pack-Egg-Carton-Seas...
You can still buy, it just shows up as other sellers and needs an extra step to purchase. And it definitely hurts conversions, as I have seen on products I sell.
- exikyut 9y agoI'm curious how you found this example. I don't expect Amazon make it easy to query/list this sort of thing.
- ikeboy 9y agoI knew hatchimals were a popular toy that sometimes had more demand than supply, so I searched for it and went through the results till I found one that was suppressed. I actually have a database with tens of millions of asins that I have used in the past to generate lists of such items, but I just needed one example so didn't bother using it for this.
- ikeboy 9y agoAnd if you check now, you'll see Amazon is back in stock and it's no longer a good example.
- homero 9y agoOh I've always wondered by the other sellers thing happens!