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Originally Posted by Rippedoffagain Good luck on getting that. I stopped selling and also buying a few years back when amazon just basically used us sellers as stepping stones to build there business now treat sellers like garbage and take all our money. Hope you get your funds. amazon is not the cash cow it was a few years back so I remember in 2010 that's when the hammer came down on sellers and this game of holding our money began . Seriously I hope you do get your funds and your merchandise back from slime bag amazon,! |
I first encountered a 'deleted' account in 2006. In 2006, on another account, I fell prey to efforts by Amazon to recoup funds through ACH debits in amounts equal to the *all* previous payouts/disbursements made over the life of the account (spanning more than a year), shortly after the account was terminated without notice (account was not 'deleted' in this case).
I have been playing the stealth/ghost game since about 2004. Affected accounts sold low-risk, moderate-sales price merchandise (textbooks, video games, etc).
When SP (or 'Alliance' as they billed themselves in the good old days) 'delete' your account, they refund customers who contact Amazon about anything related to a transaction on your account, even innocuous inquiries. No A-to-Z, just an immediately issued refund.
Likewise, if word spreads that your account has been axed, whether from the Amazon CS side telling the customer frankly about the closure of the seller's account, or with buyers solicitous enough to view your feedback on their orders page (neutral/negative feedback being inevitable if the deletion occurred before being able to dispatch all the orders or handling returns), this just encourages a firestorm of fraudulent refund request/claim attempts by your -formerly- satisfied customers.
This greatly diminishes any non-litigious hope of getting funds released from a 'deleted' account, as the ensuing flurry of trumped-up claims/complaints makes the deletion decision appear fully warranted, and certainly even if you can convince the right person to release the funds, the amount ultimately disbursed could be hundreds to even thousands less than you had before the deletion, as the result of these one-way-street refunds and vulturous opportunists.
'Deleted' accounts treated internally as 'brand risk' necessitating damage control, and a swift charge-off.
When a linking faux pas, or high-risk activities occur in such fashion as to raise a flag, this is their legally dubious way of discouraging/penalizing those whose footprints or activities suggest that, not merely is the account holder an inept merchant or a potential for loss, but rather that this isn't one's first time around the block. (i.e., a big scr*w you)