I’m confused as to why you would want to use a barcode on a product to sell on Amazon unless it was being marketed as a b2b product and you want a barcode for business to scan to resell it and even then a qr would still be better right? The Amazon staff just said you would be good as long as it doesn’t link to other selling platforms except the barcode would confuse them at fullfillment but if it was a QR code they wouldn’t be trying to scan it for the data they need so it would be fine I’m sure. Any 2D barcode scanner which is every scanner any real business has can scan the QR code if you were doing it for businesses to scan which I don’t think you and if you want customers to scan your code and get to the linked url then barcode isn’t the way to go.

People are not smart they barely know how to scan QR codes at this point and even that it’s probably only 80% or so but most don’t even know that their phones can scan barcodes also they would never use it. Maybe 10% of consumers you’re selling to will even know how to scan it.

Idk just seems like it would solve both issues. Use qr and not confuse Amazon fulfillment and also have 80–90% of the consumers receiving the product use it or use a barcode and have it jam up fulfillment and maybe get sent back and if it makes it through then you still only have maybe 10% that will use the barcode. Seems like an easy choice to me unless there’s an aspect I’m missing. The only issue I can think of is that instagram is. Marketplace in itself it’s part of meta and you probably have selling activated in meta business suite like most ecommerce businesses do so if they actually check and enforce that it wouldn’t be good. I would just use a dynamic QR code and figure out where you wanna direct it later and you can change it whenever you want so if Amazon cries about you just direct it elsewhere.