The tester sample is not the listing: kit the sellable carton
The factory tossed in a unit stamped “sample” or missing the retail insert. Someone photographed it because it was already open. That photo is now the hero for the sellable ASIN. The Transformation Kit starts from a carton a shopper will actually receive, not the desk sample.
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Put the sample aside. Open a sellable box.
Write type, size or count, material, and what is in the retail carton. If the sample is missing a card, a spare, or the hang tag, it is not this offer. Photo of the pad next to the sellable pack. The sample can sit on the shelf for fit checks. It does not go to FBA and it does not go in the image set.
Kit and shoot the retail unit
Title and first bullet from the sellable pad. Contents photo of that dump, not the marked sample. Run free optimize only if the English still describes the tester. Save. If sample units are already in the inbound, pull them or they become the next defect ticket.
Do not list the tester as a cheap child to “use it up”
A stamped sample on a public offer is a compliance problem, not a clearance trick. You stay responsible for Amazon compliance. When the retail ASIN is honest and the next sellable child is waiting, Pro checkout is the paid path. Paying does not make a tester into a retail carton.
No fake reviews. No rank promise. You stay responsible for Amazon compliance.