 Try to get GTIN exemption, or just buy UPCs to list new items?
OK, I have a well-established account selling items that are made outside the U.S. and almost inherently don't have UPCs/EANs.
Back in the old days I'd list via Everything Else and they would usually change to another (ungated) category.
Then when they started prompting me for EANs I'd recycle dormant existing listings instead. Which I seem to gather is a real no-no. But my volume wasn't that great...I would need to do maybe 30 a year, with an active inventory of several hundred and a dormant inventory of several hundred.
Anyway, nowadays they seem more resistant to changing images or especially titles in the catalog, so I guess I have to do it the right way.
And so would you recommend trying to get a GTIN exemption, or using bought EAN/UPCs (just bought 100 for 99 cents on eBay but haven't used any yet).
With the GTIN exemption it's not hard to show with pictures that the product doesn't have one, but I don't like the approval-letter part and the true source is one of those dodgy Asian countries where I understand they're much less likely to approve letters from.
It's not a counterfeit item and there are other sellers based in Asia also selling from the same source, though one is using a bogus brand name (that would really have nothing to do with the items)
With the EANs/UPCs if I'm reading it correctly the pitfall there is Amazon checking against GS1. How big a risk is that, given that there's no association with some hot-potato brand. Another pitfall is eBay sellers selling recycled EANs, though this one swears it's not and has 1,000+ feedback at 99%+
I'm leaning toward the EAN and UPC approach, but maybe I'm missing something here. Am trying to list about 100 or so items.
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