This week I noticed products from my store in Earnings “Sold Items” where “Product Deleted” was underneath. I went to my store to find hundreds of products gone. I am wondering if this is a glitch. Before anyone mentions it, no trademark issues. It is a minimal store. There was no email about why it was deleted. Has anyone had this problem? Can tech answer this?
Image are some of these in earnings with “Product Deleted”
Were they extremely basic templates- just a single “your text here’ or ‘insert your photo’ field filling the item? I thin Z has been perhaps cracking down on no-design designs, that just emulate their own blanks…
Was there some kind of Zazzle announcement about that — giving folks a heads up? Just curious…
There was, a long time ago. Maybe somebody can find the link to the post.
It was ages ago… seriously like years… but I’m sure I remember it.
I think it may have bee so long ago it was the old forum… but I’m glad I not the only one who remembers. The MP had been filling up with generic white items at the time… and I if my memory isn’t totally shot, I think Zazzle blanks were either introduced or reorganized on the website at the time… it may have been in conjunction with the major overhaul in the design tool.
I do realize that. Those are not the ones that I am talking about and not that basic. Half of my deleted products are a logo design I made and have been on here for years. Not mine, but I saw Editors’ Choice on some other creators with a logo image template, so Zazzle does not have a problem with that.
I did not receive any announcement or email about it. Strange things happen, and often I find out that it is a glitch. If others have experienced this recently, then it is possible. I have written to support and am hoping for a response. I don’t want to republish those because of the views and sales that were on those that had been deleted and it will be back to zero.
I would like to see that if someone can find it. I could not find anything in the forum.
Deleting without notification is Odd on Zazzle’s part that too the selling products. I hope you get the answers soon.
I recall that it was communicated that special care would be taken with this type of product, and this may be mentioned in the fine print of the regulations.
I find it disturbing that things like this happen without any notification to the creator. Zazzle, what’s up with this?
I checked the title on Zazzle and this showed up. This type of template is prohibited by Zazzle as others have mentioned. Most people had their templates deleted years ago. I had some ( with more detail than this) they were all removed. So you’re not the only one affected.
The EP I think you’re referring to is a business card and it has template text on the other side. Basically the logo part is ok but it should have more than just that one thing which is a replicant of what Zazzle has.
UPDATE: I got an email back from Zazzle to send the links to all these deleted products. I did my best going through the Zazzle earnings and where I posted those on social media and sent them to support. Now the wait is on.
Please share your findings Sandy. I’m just being nosy. 😂
Most definitely.
Someone messaged me to let me know that one of her best-selling envelopes just had this happen to her. Now it has prompted me to view my other stores. Sure enough, there are other selling products with “Product Deleted”. I don’t know when those were deleted. But I will have to add it to my list.
This really concerning. I hope Zazzle is able to resolve this for you!
I just had it happen today. I did not delete the product myself and it has sold in the past with no issues. I no longer have access to my university email account that I used to set up my Zazzle account so I don’t know if they emailed me about it or not but whenever I try to update to my current email address in my account settings it won’t let me update it to my yahoo email account. Update I was able to change it to a google email account for the future so I will get emails from Zazzle again but I still don’t know why it was deleted because I didn’t delete it myself.
