If you want to open a store on Amazon smoothly, you must first understand the rules of the Amazon platform. Today we will learn about the products that Amazon prohibits from selling.
Amazon bans specific products: lithium-ion batteries
Amazon bans sale of six types of lithium-ion batteries across all sites
1. Drone products
Restricted drone products have the following characteristics: equipped with batteries, power supply units and radio equipment for radio control
2. Smart plug products
A limited smart plug is one that can be used as both a power device and a wireless device.
3. Home camera products
Restricted home cameras have the following characteristics: equipped with batteries, power supply and radio equipment controlled by remote control. These cameras are sold as ultra-compact cameras, standard security cameras, dome security cameras, and home surveillance systems, among others.
Common categories of products that are banned on Amazon
1. Alcohol
① Alcoholic beverages
② Liquor sales license
2. Art
① Any unauthorized reproduction of art that violates copyright or trademark rights
3. Automobile
① Motor vehicles that need to be registered
② Products designed to defeat, bypass or shut down emission control equipment, including oxygen sensor simulators
③ The product is designed to overturn the fault indicator light
④ High Intensity Discharge (HID) conversion tools, except those specifically permitted above
⑤ The product is designed to affect traffic signals
⑥ Products designed to intentionally block, jam or interfere with authorized or unauthorized radio communications, for example, cell jammers, GPS jammers, laser shields, computer jammers, radar jammers, wireless network jammers
⑦ The product is intended to change the odometer (of a car)
⑧ Driver’s license and other government-issued ID
⑨ Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
4. Clothing
① Second-hand clothes and shoes
5. Cosmetics & Skin/Hair Care
① The product requires a prescription or the supervision of a medical professional before use
② Adulterated or adulterated products
③ Products and ingredients that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has currently determined to pose an unreasonable risk of injury or illness.
④ Product listings claiming that the product is intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, cure, or prevention of disease in humans or animals, unless the claim is approved by the FDA.
⑤ Controlled drugs.
⑥ Expired products.
⑦ Opened or used cosmetics, skin products or hair care products.
⑧ The product is not sealed in the original manufacturer's packaging.
⑨ The product packaging has been altered to remove or obscure any identification code placed on the packaging by the manufacturer or distributor.
⑩ Test products, including perfume testing, or "not intended for resale"
6. Electronic products
① The product is designed to affect traffic signals
② The serial number of the product has been deleted or modified
③ Using CB radio power amplifier
④ Products designed to intentionally prevent, jam or interfere with authorized or unauthorized radio communications
⑤ Accessing cable or satellite TV without permission
⑥ The product includes IIIB and IV lasers
⑦ Video game controllers (including cards or other devices) that replace existing technology in video games
⑧ DVD copier without copyright protection
⑨ Blu-ray players, credit card terminals and portable magnetic stripe card readers that have been modified to disable region coding
⑩ Unlocked devices, phones with bad electronic serial numbers, SIM cards changed from standard size to small size
7. Food and Beverages
① Alcohol
② Prohibited animal products
③ The ingredients contained in the product need a safety report, but there is no safety report
④ Adulterated or adulterated products
⑤ The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and FDA believe that the product poses an unreasonable risk of injury or illness
⑥ Expired products
⑦ Controlled drugs
⑧ The product contains shark, dolphin, whale or dolphin meat
⑨ Products are prohibited from importing into the United States
8. Jewelry and Gemstones
① Gold and silver products that do not comply with relevant laws
② The product does not comply with the US Federal Trade Commission's regulations on jewelry, precious metals and tin industries
③ Irradiated gemstones, unless approved for sale by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
④ Diamonds, non-compliance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
⑤ High-clarity white diamonds
⑥ Glass-filled ruby
9. Products certified by GITEKI Japan
When selling things on the Amazon platform, you must be familiar with the rules of the Amazon platform during the product selection process. The above is the relevant content about Amazon's prohibited sales. If you want to get more information about Amazon, please continue to pay attention!
