Why you should never leave your Amazon listing out of stock?

Maybe you are running out of stock or planning to take a break from selling. However, leaving your ASINs (especially private label ones) inactive can have bad consequences.

There are sellers, whose business model is to search for abandoned (out of stock – currently unavailable) ASINs with great reviews and history, only to alter them beyond recognition into their generic Chinese items of poor quality and then boost sales with coupons and advertising.

If this happens, you will end up completely losing the listing or worse, it may get removed from the Amazon’s catalogue as a result of intellectual property rights infringement complaints and your account will be subject to any performance actions taken by Amazon as well.

Once this already happened, if you don’t have the listing control, the only way how to make Amazon correct the listing is to open a case with the Seller Support under “Products and Inventory” – “Product page issue” and “Fix a product page”.

You will be asked to provide some proof supporting your desired updates, such as a link to the manufacturer’s website.

For this reason, I would advise you to always ensure that you have your products available for sale and in stock.

Increasing your Handling Time or always keeping some extra units in stock and raising the price until you restock can be very helpful.

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