Some Poetic Justice (Amazon)
I was suspended on May 12th. After sales of over 8,000$ over 60 days, I passed a 30 day review and was in the clear (or so I thought). A very aggressive competitor (with over 5,000 feedback) must have noticed me (although I only had 100 items listed, compared to his 2000) and he bought 2 of my items. Of course he gave me negative feedback, which at that point lowered my rating to under 90%.
A few days later I was hit by another negative from another smaller competitor, after that my days were numbered. I was suspended because i had 2 negatives and only 7 positives. (Since the suspension Ive racked up 23 straight positives, too little, too late.)
I was suspended and eventhough my feedback was clearly manipulated by my competitors, Amazon would not reinstate me. I gave up that account and opened a few others....(btw..that account was actually a stealth account)
The point of this longwinded story? After temporarily abandoning the product line I was selling (very lucrative and absolutely legal), I started listing a few of the items that I was previously selling, lo and behold, the big competitor is nowhere to be found. It looks like he was suspended too. We are talking huge $$$ here, if I was selling 4k/month, he was probably doing 40k. Profit margin for this type of item is about 30-40%..So he is losing about 15,000$/month in profit!
I'd like to believe that my complaints got him kicked off, he surely deserved it. Now that particular market is wide open, there is major money to be made, I just have to be very careful with my stealth accounts, and not too greedy.
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