appealing georestrictions

I’m curious if there are any other Amazon sellers here who have dealt with their products being aggressively geo restricted by Amazon’s (likely automated) moderation – and/or have had success in appealing? We sell plant products on Amazon, only inside the United States. I have had to manually track these restrictions by keeping a spreadsheet and adding to it every time we get a notification from Amazon. The a spreadsheet now has 190 ASINs that have been subject to geographic restrictions based on the assumption they are not allowed into states due to being considered noxious/invasive plants. Louisiana is the most egregious example, with nearly 40 of our ASINs georestricted for sale there. When I’ve went into the details of the state laws using Lousiana as the test case, I’ve discovered the restrictions have no merit on the basis of fact, and I’ve attempted to appeal the restrictions. However, the cases are continually stuck in an automated response loop.

It’s difficult to discern how costly this has been in terms of our sales – a lot of the ASINs are pretty slow movers, so in most cases probably not huge, but as the phrase goes, small leaks sink ships.

If anyone else has dealt with a similar situation i’d be interested in hearing your experience.