All my 5 accounts are gone

[unknown_user]

i sold on it for a week...but soon as i started to hit about 40+ sales...odd i guess. since i had 10 different items and relisting them.

[ovidiu]

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.

[ninjavega]

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...)

[ovidiu]

Just take it easy the first month or so, build feedback with little notes pestering customers to leave positives. It's worth it in the long run. Try to get 10 positive feedbacks before you go crazy selling. At 25 or so, you're golden and can start thinking about restricted categories.

[Recherché]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

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.

Absolutely true. I always make more accounts than I need. The ones I don't use has just one item for sale greatly overpriced. When I do get suspended (only happened twice this year selling in high risk media) I simply transport items from suspended account to new one months old and don't miss a beat and rack up in sales. So far, I've never been put under revue.

[Recherché]

Originally Posted by ninjavega

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...)

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.

[Axcend]

VMWare, don't buy new computers.

[ovidiu]

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.

[mercurial333]

Is Dial-up painfully slow for managing amazon sales?

[nobody999]

Originally Posted by mercurial333

Is Dial-up painfully slow for managing amazon sales?

yes...but it not technically challenging.

[ninjavega]

Originally Posted by Recherché

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.

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.

[ninjavega]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

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.

i agree netbooks are cheap and even if they were banned can be resold for minimal loss.

but, how do you ensure that your internet connection ip and mac address of modem/router are also new?

[ovidiu]

No need, I actually moved to Seattle from Portland literally a month after I was banned.

Btw, I was banned while on vacation. Imagine!

[Recherché]

Originally Posted by mercurial333

Is Dial-up painfully slow for managing amazon sales?

Yes and no. It can be fairly quick at times if not heavily in use, but on certain times of day where there are lots of users on at the same time it can be unbearably slow. The way to work around the really slow times is curtail your login times to coincide with the less heavily used times.

[Recherché]

Originally Posted by ninjavega

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.

I don't use any VMWare. Just Windows and different user accounts. Dial-up connections do not have MAC addresses. I use a laptop that has modem for dial-up connection. If you desktop/laptop does not have a telephone line connection for dial-up, then you need to buy external USB modem that connects any desktop/laptop to dial-up.

[rsot]

I use the same way Recherche - mind if i ask what software you using for your dial-up connection? PM if wishing to keep privy.

[Recherché]

Software? Do you mean dial-up services? If that is what you meant than Juno & Coppernet. Other than that, I use nothing else.

[incniu]

if you have multiple accounts, do you change router MAC?

Originally Posted by MichaelW

- 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

[Christopher]

same crap just happened to me ugh i sent some crap off and made some disbursements i wonder if they make it lets see

[Christopher]

are you supposed to get disbursements on sat?

[Giardino]

Originally Posted by Axcend

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?

Eyyyyy Axcend, long time no see.

Are you sure that Amazon can see outside of the VMware chain? A VMware machine is basically a stand-alone computer, and it has its own "virtual" internet adapter that has its own virtual MAC address. Even if the iPhone was your second in the chain, wouldn't the chain first have to go to your host computer in the first place?

What I am trying to say is doesn't Amazon see it like this?

VMWare -> VMWare Virtual Network Adapter -> ???

Even if its like what you said, wouldn't it instead be

VMware -> Host Computer -> Iphone?

Instead of

VMWare -> Iphone?


Sorry if this is confusing to read :P

[teufle]

Contact the Better Business Bureau, I've done that from all 10 of my accounts that have gone down. They always respond & they're ready to deal.