Amazon Error 5886

Under this new policy I, as an individual seller without a "professional" account, cannot list ANY new item. I get this error when trying to list any item that is not currently in my Amazon inventory.

Error 5886: You cannot change a product detail page, or add offers on another seller’s generic product, or copy the product detail page to another store. If you want to sell a generic product, you must create a new product. To create a new product, follow the process outlined in Add a Product tool. For more information, go to Amazon Generic Product Policy. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G84H3T69ZX762NWT

Amazon Seller University: Resolve error code 5886. Video.

How I have been listing items since I opened my Amazon seller account 15+ years ago...

Step 1: Search Amazon for the item I want to sell. If it isn't already for sale, I can't sell it on Amazon. Because Marketplace sellers without a professional seller account can't create new product pages. Professional sellers pay Amazon $39.99 a month.

Step 2: After find the item I want to sell, I look at the listing and find the ASIN. I then use the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) and enter that on Amazon's "List an Item" page.


I have listed many items using this method. I have never had a problem with it previously. I have never seen this error in the 15+ years I have been selling on Amazon. Now I get it for every item I try to list. Now, when I try to list an item -- after entering the ASIN, the following error message pops up.


5886: You cannot change a product detail page, or add offers on another seller’s generic product, or copy the product detail page to another store. If you want to sell a generic product, you must create a new product. To create a new product, follow the process outlined in Add a Product tool. For more information, go to Amazon Generic Product Policy.

This is moronic. I suspect this must have something to do with a recent Amazon policy change. Something to do with brands and (possibly) stopping sellers from selling counterfeits. I am not sure, but I do know that I can't list anything new at all.

Message sent to Seller Support, 7/20/2024...

Audio CDs should not fall under the policy regarding "unbranded/generic" listings. The reason (I assume) they do is because audio CDs are produced by a label and not under a brand. Therefore Amazon says ALL audio CDs are "unbranded/generic"? That is ridiculous. A LABEL is analogous to a BRAND. Audio CDs are certainly not "generic". Under this policy (which must be a recent policy change) I cannot list/sell any item that isn't currently in my inventory. I ONLY sell audio CDs. I do not have a professional seller account, therefore I cannot create product pages (unless the Amazon policy re creating product pages has changed). In any case, I thought that Amazon wanted sellers to list items under existing product pages when a product page for the item trying to be sold exists. I suggest that Amazon review this policy and reach the OBVIOUS conclusion that LABEL and BRAND are analogous and that individual product pages shouldn't be created by every seller looking to sell a SPECIFIC (not generic) audio CD.

FSM.

PPP #47

Indiana Jones 5 CD Film Score Box Set From Disney Music Emporium $150 Bucks?

On Friday, April 26, 2024 at 21:34:10, emailcensored@yahoo.com wrote:
This inquiry concerns the item for sale on the Disney Music Emporium at the following URL.
https://www.disneymusicemporium.com/product/XVCD64/indiana-jones-the-complete-cd-collection?cp=null

It is likely not the case, but I thought I would check to see if the price given of $149.99 is a pricing error?

This is 5 CDs, which means they are $30 each? While the Dial of Destiny CD by itself was 12 dollars (but does not appear to be available any longer)?

This can't be right. I purchased the prior release of all the Indiana Jones soundtracks (at the time) from Concord records. It was like $65 for 5 CDs (one for each movie plus a bonus disc).

It seems as if this is at least double what it should cost. These aren't 2-discs sets (total 10 CDs) right? That would make more sense.

I'd like to buy this, but I do not like the price. I realize it is a limited edition. I am familiar with limited edition soundtrack CDs. They usually go for $20 for one CD and $30 for a 2 CD set. Which is why I asked if these are 2 CDs for each movie. But that does not appear to be the case.

Can you provide any additional information that might be useful? WHY does this cost $149.99?

Thank you.

The Disney Music Emporium's Reply...

A commenter on the Film Music Reporter website writes, "So, first, Disney created an artificial shortage with a limited release for the last film to later force fans to buy an over-expensive box set that doesn’t contain the extra-disc with a good part of the previous scores! What a scam".

Yeah, that sounds accurate to me. I'd like to buy this, but not at Disney's overinflated price of $150. It should be HALF that. I'll stick with the 2008 Concord Box Set.

Someone on jwfan.com writes, "50$ would be an appropriate price ... But 150$ is just greedy and unethical. Shame on Disney. Really". Another person writes, "The price is awful. It has nothing to do with being able to afford it either. It's simply overpriced".

I agree completely.

After checking I see that the track listing for the first 4 films on the Disney Box Set and the 2008 Concord Box set are exactly the same. The Dial of Destiny didn't exist when the Concord Box was issued.

The material on disc 5 of the Concord release is absent from the Disney reissue.

Disc 5: Interviews and More Music from Indiana Jones. Total Disc Time: 51:51
01. Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark 2:28.
02. Interviews with John Williams, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Hosted by Laurent Bouzereau 17:56.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Track 3
03. Uncovering the Ark ** 05:30.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Tracks 4-5
04. Indy and the Villagers * 3:51.
05. The Secret Passage * 03:28.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Tracks 6-11
06. Father's Study * 2:25.
07. Marcus Is Captured, To Berlin * 1:53.
08. To the Blimp * 2:01.
09. The Blimp Turns Around 1:27.
10. Death of Kazim * (02:24.
11. Wrong Choice, Right Choice * 4:34.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Track 12
12. Return to the Village/Raiders March * 3:26.
*Previously unreleased.
**Includes previously unreleased material.

As per a comment on Reddit, "It is very disingenuous to call this complete when it doesn't include the bonus tracks from the 2008 collection. Cues like "Wrong Choice, Right Choice" and "Father's Study" are pretty vital. Feels like a very low effort reissue".

PPP #46

There Are NO Copyright Violations On This Blog!

I am under attack by an angry A-Hole bent on taking down evey one of my blogs. Recently this person disclosed how he is going after this blog. Via the completely false allegation of "copyright violations".

Apparently Google is fine with these false allegations, as they have (as of today) taken down 3 of my blogs! What the hell, Google? Why are you enabling this harassment?

Here the liar repeats the false allegations on his WordPress blog.

I've been engaging in unauthorized sales of copyrighted materials? I will likely be caught red handed?

No, moron, I am not breaking any law by selling music CDs on this blog. As per Brookings, "when you purchase a lawfully produced music CD, you are entitled under U.S. copyright law to sell or otherwise dispose of it without seeking permission from the copyright holders".

No doubt this ID1OT has reported to Google these crimes he is imagining, however. And Google MIGHT listen and delete this blog too. Because these "copyright violations" he alleges are as bogus as the allegations he used to take down my other blogs. In regards to those blogs, Google says I violated their HATE policy. But I did not.

I am NOT a hater, Google. I didn't violate your HATE policy. I want my blogs back. And I want you to stop ASSISTING this person in their harassment of me!

btw, in the comment above the false accuser says his WordPress blog was hacked and that is how fake comments from me appeared on his WordPress blog. That is what touched this off back in September of 2018. He faked comments from me on WordPress and I filed a complaint. WordPress decided to remove several of his blogs, which I had no idea they would do. That is why he is so mad and has spent 5+ years attempting to exact revenge.

His account was not hacked. I know this because (in the comments he faked) he had me saying stupid things that HE would write. Not some "hacker". He wrote (in one comment that looked like I made it) that I am married to my dog. So stupid. But this person is stupid. How I KNOW he wrote the fake comments that got him in trouble.

The bottom line is that this person is a liar. He lies about his WordPress blog being hacked (in 2018) and he lies about me posting hate on the three Blogger Blogs that he reported (and Google removed for bogus reasons). So far. I would not be surprised at all if ALL my blogs end up getting deleted by Google.

PPP #45

CD Issue: The Ghost And Mrs Muir by Bernard Herrmann Re-Recording, Varese Sarabande 1985

This CD issue concerns the rerecording of the score from the 1947 film, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, a romantic-fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. 1985 re-recording conducted by Elmer Bernstein.

Title: The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, 1947.
Composer: Bernard Herrmann.
Label: Varese Sarabande Records 1985. VSD-47254.
Release Date: 1997-01-01.
Tracks, Run Time: 33, 51:44.
Amazon: Link.
Problem: CD Bronzing, CD Rot.
Checked My Copy: No.

Comments from the FSM Message Board post: RIP, Varese's THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (Bernstein).

 February 10, 2021 AT 3:13 AM.

Ed: I'm sad to announce that after many long years of enjoyment one of my all-time favorite soundtracks, Varese's release of THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR conducted by Bernstein, has fallen victim to disc rot. I have the FSM Bernstein box set so the music lives on in my collection and I long ago ripped the title into my computer at moderately high resolution so I'm covered, but still this was one disc from the late 1980s I would never have parted with. Sic transit gloria mundi.

 February 10, 2021 AT 8:02 AM.

JSDouglas: Sorry to hear of your loss. I remember when it was new and wrapped in the long magenta sleeve common to all Varese CDs of the era. It was such a care-free time! I let my copy go long ago and stayed pat with the FSM/FMS Box. When it's your time Ed, the disc will return to you and you will be re-united in the hereafter along with "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Extended Version)". I shall play some Herrmann in your honor!

PPP #44

The Vacuum Trick (Fix For Malfunctioning Camera)

This commentary is a followup to my 10/18/2016 post "Rising Water" (PPP #40). This was a post written 13 days ago, immediately after receiving the 10.2 megapixel camera that I purchased used on eBay for $16.

Purchased because I slipped in mud and my old camera got dunked in water (the exact same model). Then wouldn't work. So I stuck it in a bag of rice (which I read on the interwebs might fix it). So today I took the camera out of the bag of rice... which it had been in for 18 days (5 days waiting for the "new" camera to arrive, then 13 days of using it).

I chose today because I took the the "new" one on a walk. A walk on the nature preserve I live near. Well, after taking a few pictures it malfunctioned. What happened was that I took a pic, then pushed the power button to preserve the batteries. When I originally purchased the camera (the original camera) back in 2007, I found that leaving it on drained the batteries REALLY fast.

I was concerned about the lens going in and out would wear it out, so I'd leave it on while using it. But, as it turned out, the batteries didn't last long leaving it on. So I decided to turn it off between shots, and that fixed the problem (at first I thought there was something wrong with the camera, as the batteries were draining so fast).

So, what happened was that I turned it off... after which the lens is supposed to retract and then the protective shutter over the lens closes. But the lens only retracted part way, the shutter didn't close, and the camera beeped twice (indicating a malfunction). I turned it on and off a few times, but it kept doing it.

Oddly, the camera lens would fully retract when I turned it on (completing the action it was supposed to have taken when I shut it off), then extend again. So... broken, I thought. I never should have purchased a USED camera. I had worried that this might be the case (that it would malfunction within a few days). But I decided to cross my fingers and hope to get a good one.

Anyway, being without a camera (and absolutely HAVING to have one for my eBay business), I decided to first try the old one. I took it out of the bag of rice when I got home, transfered the batteries from the malfunctioning unit into it, and pushed the power button.

The lens extend part way, then beeped twice. DAMN! I tried it again with the same results. I tried it a 3rd time and the same thing happened. So it's junk I thought. I was going to give up, but decided to try it a 4th. And this time it worked! The lens is no longer fogged up (water in the lens) and it appears to be working.

Now back to the other camera. I decided to use the vacuum trick. Perhaps some grit was preventing the lens from extending? Who knows? I have used this trick to fix my camera previously (the first one. the one that got wet). Years ago I noticed a spot on pictures I was taking. Looking at the lens closely, I noticed something INSIDE the lens.

No way to get that out, I thought. Anyway, I decided to try the shop vac. Placing the hose over the lens, I HOPED to suck out the speck. Not that I thought it work, given the fact the speck had somehow gotten inside the lens. Well, it did work!

Not that this situation was similar, but both situations did involve a problem with the lens. Anyway, I tried it, and the camera (the one I purchased on eBay and then malfunctioned), now appears to be working as well. Not that I trust either one. I'll go back to using the eBay purchased one for now and see if it keeps working.

When it malfunctioned the FIRST thing I thought was that I'd contact the seller about a refund. I figure that 30 days is a reasonable amount of time to test it out... and get my money back if there is a problem. I mean, a camera that works for 13 days surely isn't acceptable. Not to me, anyway.

But to the point of the story (the title of the post). If you find yourself with a lens problem (dirt in the lens, lens won't extend), you might want to try the vacuum trick. Note that I used a powerful shop vac (lots of suction). It's worked for me twice now.

Although, if the malfunctioning camera continues to work remains to be seen. I certainly hope it does. Also note that, as far as the "rick trick" working goes, I also opened up the camera (removed the back panel) and the screen. And there was some water there. Which I used a tissue to absorb. But it still didn't work after putting it back together.

Apparently the front can be removed (and I'm sure there was some water in there), but I've never done that before and was leary about trying to force it. It didn't appear to want to come off. So I decided to try the rice. And it worked. It may malfunction later, however. Who knows if the water damaged the camera in some way that won't be apparent until some later date.

PPP #43

TWD S07E01 Fake Out

This commentary concerns the Season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead titled "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" which aired Sunday 10/23/2016. Do not read further if you have not seen it yet and don't want to read spoilers. Not that I think anyone will read this, but just because giving a spoiler warning is considered good etiquette. And someone MIGHT read this. Someone who is a fan and has not seen the episode yet. Unlikely, yes, but it COULD happen.

Anyway, consider yourself warned (hypothetical but likely non-existent reader). Do not continue if you are concerned about spoilers. Also, don't click the link (which is the episode title) as it goes to Wikipedia, where there are also spoilers. Now, onto my discussion of the episode and my previous predictions regarding what happens in it (PPP #38 & PPP #41).

I predicted two things: the first was that Abraham would die, which he did. And, secondly, I predicted there would be a fake out. The two possibilities of what could happen was that Negan would chop off Rick's hand with his axe. The second was that more than one person would be beaten to death by Negan with his baseball bat.

I wrongly predicted the fake out would be that Negan would kill two or more of the main characters. He did. The fake out (of which there was one) turned out to be Rick getting his hand chopped off. The Sneak Peak did strongly suggest it might happen, but it did not. A 2nd limb cutting off fake out occurred when Negan, in an attempt to break Rick (after he said he'd kill Negan for what he did) told Rick he had to chop off his son Carl's arm with the axe.

That did break him. But Negan stopped him just as he was about to do it (it appeared). Because Negan told his men to shoot everyone if Rick didn't. In the preview of episode 2 Rick is show saying that he (Rick) is no longer in charge but Negan is. Although Maggie (whose husband Glenn was killed by Negan) said they should fight (at the end of S07E01).

(Comic book spoiler warning, next paragraph).

In the comic Maggie (later) attempts suicide by hanging but is stopped by Rick. Anyway, I should have known that the hand-chopping off was the fake out, because... what was shown, together with the title of the Sneak Peak, made it clear what they were telegraphing. They were implying it too strongly for it to actually be what happened.

I guess I just didn't want to believe that Glenn was going to die. I was thinking that if they add another Asian character, that might be sign that Glenn's time was up (given that he's the only one). But he's dead (and now there are no Asian characters on the show).

The Wikipedia page notes that there were complains over how gruesome the deaths were. Negan hit Glenn in the head with his bat, knocking him down to the ground. He pushed himself back up (to his knees) and he had a dent in his head and his right eyeball had popped out. Then Negan finished him off as he had with Abraham, by beating his head to a pulp.

Images: Abraham Ford, portrayed by Michael Cudlitz (1st pic). Glenn Rhee and Maggie Greene, portrayed by Steven Yeun and Lauren Cohan (2nd pic).

10/27/2016 Correction: I said that (in the comic) Maggie tries to commit suicide after Glenn is murdered (something I thought I read on TWD wiki), but Wikipedia says this happened after her family died... and Glenn was still alive. Also), Maggie's sister Beth attempted suicide (by cutting her wrists) previously (shortly after her character was introduced on the TV show). Point is, I doubt there will be an upcoming suicide storyline for Maggie (given these two facts).

FSM discussion: Indiana Jones 5, Walking Dead, Alien. 10/25/2016.

PPP #42, TWD #9.

My Take On The Walking Dead S7 Sneak Peak

This clip played on Sunday 10/15/2016 after the "the story so far" retrospective/clip show. Season 7 begins Sunday night, 10/23/2016. BTW, don't read any further if you don't want spoilers. I don't know anything, although I'm going to speculate on what's going to happen. Speculation based not on reading the graphic novel, but on reading about it.

Because I'm not into graphic novels or comics. I've got zero interest in TWD in it's original format. That said, you've been warned. Stop reading now to avoid "spoilers", AKA my speculation based on the following video.

Video1: AMC "sneak peak" scene from the season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead.

Given that the episode is called "Right Hand Man", and given what happens in the comic, I say Rick is going to get his hand chopped off (with his own axe) by Negan. After Negan kills #whoisit (note the bloody bat, AKA "Lucille") and promoted by Rick's threats ("I'm going to kill you. Not today, not tomorrow"), Negan drags Rick away by the hair (and into the RV).

What happens next is that Rick gets his hand chopped off (I'm guessing). It already happened in the comic. A lot earlier, in fact. In the comic it was the Governor who did the deed. And he also raped Michonne. Something that was changed (for TV) to threats of rape against Maggie.

But in the TV show Rick wasn't among those initially captured by the Governor. It was Michonne and Andrea instead. And the person who lost his hand was Daryl's brother Merle. Although he cut it off himself after being left handcuffed to an unmovable object on the roof of a building (earlier).

Anyway, I read that the actor who plays Negan (Jeffery Dean Morgan) said that Negan kills multiple people, and not just the one shown at the end of season 6 (although from the POV of the victim, and NOT from the POV of the audience... so we don't know who it is. Hence #whoisit).

That said, I previously speculated that the victim was Abraham (PPP #38). I did, however, identify Daryl and Glenn as possible victims. Not all of them, but one of the 3. Now (and maybe it's a fakeout) it's being floated (by JDM) that more than one person might be killed by his character, Negan. Although I think it's likely a tactic to build suspense and get people to tune in.

I heard that many viewers were unhappy with how season 6 ended. Someone was killed, but you've got to wait months to find out who. So they might have said "screw this, I'm not going to watch anymore). Me, I didn't care. It's the nature of the show that characters are killed. And, when whoever who it was that is Negan's victim was not revealed, I didn't care either. I knew I'd find out eventually.

I just don't like it when people are killed stupidly, like with the death of Beth Greene (PPP #35). But, if they kill off (say) Abraham, Glenn and Daryl (or 2 of these characters) for the SHOCK... I'm not sure I'll like that either.

But I think it's likely a fake out. TWD actors have done it before. The actor playing The Governor (David Morrissey) suggested (on Talking Dead) he might be reformed/not interested in revenge. But it turned out he was fibbing.

Video2: Emily Kinney (the actress who played Beth Greene) is also a recording artist. Below is a music video for the song "Molly" from her 2015 album This Is War (2:42).

10/25/2016 Correction: The title of the Sneak Peak was "Right Hand Man". The Season 7 premiere episode was titled "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be".

PPP #41, TWD #8.