I went to find the SKU for ya and was happy to find the seller is no longer on the Amazon marketplace! Maybe forwarding the emails they sent to jeff@amazon actually worked?
Nope they're still up, with 628 pages(!) of products that appear to be marked as "Currently Unavailable". Some sort of arbitrage or marketing bot? There's a lot of weirdness going on with Amazon Marketplace sellers, that's for sure.
They definitely removed it years ago, at least for me. The option to check mark “Amazon.com” as the seller was there and then it wasn’t over and over, and then eventually just disappeared.
Edit: I just searched shelf and hot sauce on Amazon.Com on iOS Safari, and the filter options do not show any way to restrict to items sold by Amazon.com.
I could be mistaken, but my understanding is that there is no indicator if comingled inventory is enabled or disabled for a SKU, and that even product sold “by Amazon” could be comingled.
Ah, I poked around. They still have a way to review sellers if you click on the seller from the Orders page, but clicking the seller's name no longer allows you to rate the seller.
I am sorry to hear that. Amazon's UI is purposely designed to make it difficult to notice this kind of information. Buyers are lulled into a false sense of assuredness.
Amazon's search function sucks hard if you're looking for anything other than a top seller (aka, a cheap knockoff of something) in a common category. I'm glad to see someone tried to fix this issue, even if Amazon was too short sighted to take advantage of it.
never thought of this but this is has been my experience exactly, lot of past bought cheap version of item disappear from the amazon own search and I either have to get them from the reorder interface or straight up use google to search the amazon's item page and buy it coming from the direct link.
I find Amazon.com to have turned into a mess. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to search only for items sold by Amazon.com. And on the product's page itself, it's confusing to figure out who is selling it. I'm pretty sure they keep moving it to confuse people.
Another fix is to not create product listings for internet points. This product doesnt even show in search results on amazon (or at least didnt when i checked). Op didnt “find” it. They made it. Probably to maintain hype.
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