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Originally Posted by ninjavega (Post 260727)

Were you selling an inventory list similar to a previously banned account?

While there are a lot of amazon merchants, you need to realize there are not a lot selling "the same thing" if you compare their inventory.

So if you have lets say 20 items up for sale, and get that account banned. Now a week later, a new account gets put up, in the same city as your old one and it just happens to have those 20 items for sale....

Amazon looks at things like that and plays the odds, the odds of a new merchant in your city having an identical or very similar inventory list, they just assume you are the same person they already banned and ban you again

Especially if you trip a velocity review early on the account. Real new people won't typically hit $500+ in a day. And realize it only takes about $750 in a month to trigger your first review. At which point someone sits there and examines your every action. They know your in the same area based on your IP as a previous ban. They sit there and compare you to every person in your IP area that has ever been banned, and if anything about your behavior or your inventory is suspicious, your out.

They can even link you from tracking numbers. If you are using those green forms from the post office, take a look some time, if they are sequential (and mine often are). If they see 2 or 3 accounts all using sets of sequential tracking numbers, they know you are selling from the same pile of delivery confirmation stickers. They also know when you log in. So if they see 2 or 3 accounts log in on the same day in the same order and the tracking numbers typed in are sequential as you are saying they are shipped.... they will assume you are the same accounts.

The kicker is, they dont need real proof, they only need to suspect you are a prior banned account. Its no real loss to them, they dont even have to care if they get it wrong.

Originally Posted by unknown_user (Post 260729)

the thing is...this is my first time selling on amazon in 2 years and all new information / location etc. all different user data etc. all items are misc different (never the same dvds and or other merchandise) and I sold a great deal in volume but however stayed under the 500 or 750 dollar range plus having feedback....just found it odd when i added a bank account it was suspended without warning. I still think it was the whole 40 items in less than a week thing... and even though i had feedback... didn't matter.

next time i'm thinking about listing a 200 dollar item and selling on 10 amazon accounts and sell 2 of those a month .... possibly 3. think this will work? also the account was located in chicago...my bank account was in florida. that a biggie or????

Originally Posted by ovidiu (Post 263782)

If it were me, I wouldn't sell 40 items in a week. You want your stealth Amazon account to last, wait a month before selling like crazy.

Originally Posted by ninjavega (Post 263855)

yea... amazon gets nuts if you sell too much apparantly. i just opened 3 new stealth accounts. 100% new computers with individual internet connections through seperate wireless dial up dongles, new identities, new phones,etc.. the works

1 was banned without explanation, they just said "we chose to close your store", it had only been open a week, had $500 in sales, but they shut it down before product had even arrived to customers (all shipped with tracking), they didnt say it, but I think its due to lack of feedback to support the number of sales (no one left feedback, no one had gotten anything yet...)

2nd was banned for selling "innapropriate items", which doesnt make sense, i was selling adult erotica, but its the same erotica that amazon and many others are STILL selling on the site. amazon likes to pretend they dont sell porn and randomly bans a few people for selling it, even though they continue to sell it themselves and so do many others on the same item pages. they dont even take the item pages down so i dont understand how anything i was selling is innaprpriate when so many others are selling the exact same item, including amazon itself.

anyway, the 3rd account is under review, luckily it has some feedback, we'll see if it passes velocity review or not

if it doesnt i may end up homeless soon, i cant afford to buy another computer and internet connections i spent the last of my money on these new 3 and it will be 3 months before i get the money back from all the sales we've done (several thousand dollars already...)

Originally Posted by mercurial333 (Post 264143)

Is Dial-up painfully slow for managing amazon sales?

Originally Posted by Recherché (Post 264133)

Why all the undue stress? Just go simple and use same desktop/laptop with dial up. It's what I do with great success. Six accounts running using same laptop. Sure, you may access accounts quicker using cable, but other than that I never could understand why some go all out the way with complicated mac changing every time for login and changing router mac, dongle, etc. KISS.

Originally Posted by ovidiu (Post 264141)

but other than that I never could understand why some go all out the way with complicated mac changing every time for login and changing router mac, dongle, etc. KISS.

Same here. I don't have 10+ accounts like some on here, but just bought a cheap netbook after I was suspended from my legit account, and use that to access any Amazon-related stuff.

Originally Posted by mercurial333 (Post 264143)

Is Dial-up painfully slow for managing amazon sales?

Originally Posted by ninjavega (Post 264422)

See, for me getting new computers was "simple" it just happened to be costly. I would have considered it worth it, if we didn't start getting banned on those accounts.

Anyway, what vmware do you use? I know nothing about it to be able set up the accounts on one computer.

Also, I don't think this computer has dialup. What dialup do you use and what do you do to keep each account seperate with the dialup? Does each need a new dialup account?

doesnt the network connector for the dialup have a mac address that needs to be change?

i'm gonna need to learn this going forward, i have to make this work or im in a lot of trouble.

Originally Posted by MichaelW (Post 258773)

- No VMWare, I'm using windows user account, also different PC and OS (some run on Linux)
- Internet is Cable Modem and I can change IP as I want
- Used VCC both MC and VISA

Originally Posted by Axcend (Post 251729)

I know what happened. This happened to me a few months back. They linked you through your second Mac address. What caused it for me:

Vmware(Mac spoofed) -> iPhone (can't change Mac)

That was my chain for Internet connection. Amazon can see the 2 closest mac addresses. They linked your accounts and outright deleted them. Same thing happened to me.

There could be a diff reason. How long were these accounts open for?

Originally Posted by teufle (Post 273842)

Go to the BBB website, use that accounts email as your contact email, there form is very specific & they'll take care of it from there. Amazon always sends a generic response about sending a check to the address you created the account with but the BBB allows you to reject there resolution at which point you can request the check to be sent where ever you'd like. I have them send it in the stealth name & use different addresses. Amazon always drags the process out, but so far they've agreed to send 3 checks to the address I've requested. The other accounts are all in some stage of the process.

Originally Posted by MichaelW (Post 275560)

Another one of my account went down yesterday :(

This account have no A-Z claim or charge back. It was in good performance.

I open this account with webstore service and it auto disbursement every two weeks (not letting me doing it manually) and yesterday is the day that scheduled to disbursement day and I'm dying waiting for this money (almost 5K)

After work, when I get home the first thing I always doing is check my account. And I'm socked to dead :( won let me log in

Contact customer support as dumb and they collect information and said get back to me in 24 hours as they always do.

I then send email to Seller-Performance, Merchant-Disbursement-Inquiry, Payments-Funds, and Resolution ask about my account status and what happen?

Around 9PM I got an email from Seller-Notification that Deposit on the way to my bank. I don't know why and wish for the best.

This Morning I got two email from them:
- 1 from Seller Support said that they don't know what happen
- 1 from Merchant-Disbursement-Inquiry.
In this email they said my account is done :( and they reserving the fund and held it for 90 days for any claim, charge back. On the bottom of the email they state they are Payment Specialist.

I'm feeling stupid now. What happen if I not send them the email yesterday? Will my disbursement go through the process or still got reserve as they always do?

Thank you for reading. I just want to share what happen to me with everyone here. At least this time they told me to wait 90 days.

Originally Posted by GreenBean™ (Post 276029)

At what point is anyone going to pinpoint wtf this is happening :spy: