No marketplace department suggestions come up for bath sets?

[WHS_Designs]

No marketplace department suggestions automatically come up for bath sets. 

I have to manually choose Home & Living > Bath & Beauty > Bathroom

and bath sets are not one of the four choices under Bathroom (the others being Bath Mats & Rugs, Bath Towels, Shower Curtains, Vanity Trays), even though previously they were there, as Bath Accessory Sets, which is now gone.

Should I take this absence to mean that Bath Sets are permanently discontinued, instead of being in long-term out-of-stock status?

Thank you

W.H.

[Mark]

Hi @WHS_Designs,

Can you pass on an example product please? We'll be happy to take and look and see what is going on.

[WHS_Designs]

For an older product, the choice of Bath Accessory Sets was available and chosen.
PID # 256739409378676756

For this product (created this year), the choice of Bath Accessory Sets is no longer available.
PID # 196474140451300939

 

Thank you
W.H.

[Mark]

Hi @WHS_Designs,

Thanks for the info. I have passed it on to the team now and hope to have an answer soon.

[Barbara · Accepted solution]

You wouldn't, by any chance, be thinking of the toothbrush holder and soap dispenser set, would you? If so, they've been discontinued.

[WHS_Designs]

@Barbara, yes, and thank you for dispelling the mystery for me. Off I go to do some (not so massive) deletes now.

W.H.

[MasterpieceCafe]

Did you get confirmation from Zazzle that bath sets are not coming back and we should delete them?

[Barbara]

They've been marked as being discontinued on their product pages for quite a while, and if you have any still in your store, you'll find they've been shifted over to Hidden where they're also marked as discontinued. I'm fairly sure they were in the list of discontinued items in the old forum, too, but someone else would have to confirm this.

[MasterpieceCafe]

I've deleted discontinued products before that Zazzle found a different supplier for and they came back. I just want to be 100% sure that they need to be deleted. It bothers me that if they truly are never coming back why won't Zazzle delete them for us? If they are never coming back it doesn't help Zazzle to keep them on the site. Unless I'm missing something?

[Barbara]

I've also made the same error of deleting discontinued products that came back, so I'm hesitant to do it. The bath sets, however, seem like they might be a permanent situation, but there's certainly no harm in keeping them unless one is bordering on a 100.000 products.

[MasterpieceCafe]

Just to be clear ... we should delete all bathroom toothbrush and soap dispenser sets?  Thanks!