GBP Products Rejected for "Unsupported Shopping Content (Services)"

[Shelly]

I am working with a whitewater rafting client and we were uploading their trips as Products in GBP. All were "Not Approved" due to the following error (see screenshots). This hasn't ever been a problem in the past. Anyone have insights into if the GBP guidelines for products has changed so you can no longer post services as products? I can see that the Gear & Gift Shop may be a stretch, and maybe they don't like the words on the image for Gift Certificates, but I'm surprised by the others. I looked up the error and all I can find is info about the Merchant Center which my client doesn't use.

 

[JS Girard]

This was reported by @Claire Carlile just this Friday. Looks like Google is cracking down on this practice.

 

[Shelly]

This was reported by @Claire Carlile just this Friday. Looks like Google is cracking down on this practice.

Good to know! I was on vacation last week and wasn't watching updates quite as close as normal. This is a bummer, but not surprising.