Removing a large number of ASINs from EU Marketplaces
Hey,
We use build international listings to copy our UK offers to EU marketplaces. We have approximately 1,000 SKUs that aren't appropriate to list in Europe (UK Language specific, region coded, UK plug, too large, can't be sent airmail etc).
I have added them to the BIL exclusion list but this only prevents the price and quantity being updated; the offers remain live.
In the interim I have used the price update flat file to set the minimum price for the item in each marketplace to 99999,00 so that they're not displayed but ideally I'd like to delete them altogether. Does anybody know the easiest flat file to delete a large number of SKUs from one marketplace only (ie I don't want the UK 'parent' to be deleted)?
Or am I missing something altogether and there's an easy way to have BIL delete items in the exclusion list from the non UK marketplaces?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Chris
Removing a large number of ASINs from EU Marketplaces
Hey,
We use build international listings to copy our UK offers to EU marketplaces. We have approximately 1,000 SKUs that aren't appropriate to list in Europe (UK Language specific, region coded, UK plug, too large, can't be sent airmail etc).
I have added them to the BIL exclusion list but this only prevents the price and quantity being updated; the offers remain live.
In the interim I have used the price update flat file to set the minimum price for the item in each marketplace to 99999,00 so that they're not displayed but ideally I'd like to delete them altogether. Does anybody know the easiest flat file to delete a large number of SKUs from one marketplace only (ie I don't want the UK 'parent' to be deleted)?
Or am I missing something altogether and there's an easy way to have BIL delete items in the exclusion list from the non UK marketplaces?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Chris
20 replies
Sakura_Amazon_
Hello @Seller_SFroNyke7RXVg,
Here you can find some information on how to delete the listings using the Inventory Loader. Did you review this option?
Here, I am sharing information on how to do it:
"Closing a listing
You can also delete offers without deleting item data contributions by entering a ‘d’ in the ‘add-delete’ field when submitting Inventory Loader feeds. When you delete offers by entering a ‘d’ in the ‘add-delete’ field of a loader template, the offer-end-date attribute on the listing is set to a date in the past, but the offer quantity is not modified.
Your offers can also be closed through the Manage Your Inventory section of your Seller Account."
You can find more information about Inventory Loader here :
Regards,
Sakura
Seller_CTfqgyINkSmIw
Hi there,
I've been trying to delete listings for months now and have opened several cases about it. No matter which method I use to delete, the listings are initially removed then a day or so later they are back on my inventory dashboard.
In the past I've just deleted and and when required from the inventory dashboard, either individually or as a group action. This still seems to work on the UK platform, but for all the EU ones they just keep reappearing.
I can't spend anymore time with SS opening cases as I am going around in circles. Is there a bug or issue with the delete function on the EU market places?
I have a lot of end of lines with no stock / no more stock to come and it is affecting my IPI but nothing seems to permanently delete the listings.
Can you help?
Regards,
Jenny
Sakura_Amazon_
Hello @Seller_CTfqgyINkSmIw,
Did you review your Build International Listings connections?
It sounds like you might have your target store connected with other stores in the EU, and the listings are coming back.
To remove the connection, please follow the steps on this help page:
Remove a connection using Build International Listings.
Once you remove the connection, please try to delete the listings again.
Does it help?
Regards,
Sakura
Seller_CTfqgyINkSmIw
Hi Sakura,
Thank you for your reply, SS said the same and yes we do have BIL and I did check the connections and then created exclusions which removed some of them, but not all of them. So I repeated the exercise to try and delete the ones which were skipped and they still live on.
Do you have any other suggestions?
Kind regards,
Jeny
Sakura_Amazon_
@Seller_CTfqgyINkSmIw,
If, in the past, you had a connection active, it means that the offer was already created in the target marketplace.
If you exclude the specific ASIN in the target marketplace, it means that it will not be updated in case you make any updates in the source marketplace.
However, this ASIN still exists in your inventory of the target marketplace, as you had a connection active in the past. In this case, you need to delete the ASIN from the target inventory.
I would recommend you review this help page: How to exclude and permanently delete international offers.
Let us know if you managed to remove your inventory from other marketplaces.
Regards,
Sakura
Sakura_Amazon_
@Seller_CTfqgyINkSmIw,
I was informed that the Team is waiting for your response in case : 9862469702.
Could you please review it?
Regards,
Sakura
