Copyright Infringement

[guitarca18]

These last 18 months on Amazon have been brutal as GreenBean has said. We used to sell inventory that maybe 1% of the items we offered could be construed as CI yet they took down the entire account on suspicion of CI. Can't get them to unsuspend. They're not messing around. In some ways though it has forced us to change our own ways. Instead of doing something to make a quick buck we're putting up more relevant CI free items. The entire e-commerce industry has been going this way for a while in terms of Amazon, ebay, and SEO. They all want "relevent" hand picked products...Not just an entire dump of the entire collection.

[vogeltron]

I agree one strange seller feedback on Amazon can bring down and entire account.

[jayce]

This is certainly an interesting thread. I too have often wondered about location being a factor (i.e. should I list my location as Hong Kong). The odd thing is I have had stealth accounts create listings, get closed, and have been unable to list on those same product pages while more & more sellers from China/Hong Kong just keep popping up on the same pages I created (both new and older accounts) and now can no longer list under. Perhaps there is a method "they" figured out?

[J dub 1984]

I wish before they issue anything mc0999 or suspension that they would ask you provide paperwork or a receipt then just say these items are ⊗⊗⊗⊗. A poster said earlier for people who sell in this category it was a bloodbath this year as well as the past 5 years they've gone gangbusters on people selling "AAA" Items. I would think the company UGGS really set it off, probably also those DRE Beats Headphones back in 2012 or so I feel that like those items bought a lot of unwanted attention on the underground industry.

[rsot]

MC999 refers to eB J_dub...this is an Amazon thread - just fyi

[J dub 1984]

Originally Posted by rsot

MC999 refers to eB J_dub...this is an Amazon thread - just fyi

Sorry about that I knew ordering prescription glasses off of eBay was a bad idea I can't even see straight.

[macbook]

Originally Posted by jayce

This is certainly an interesting thread. I too have often wondered about location being a factor (i.e. should I list my location as Hong Kong). The odd thing is I have had stealth accounts create listings, get closed, and have been unable to list on those same product pages while more & more sellers from China/Hong Kong just keep popping up on the same pages I created (both new and older accounts) and now can no longer list under. Perhaps there is a method "they" figured out?

Agreed. Its extremely rampant, more and more asian sellers stacking up on the same product pages for which a US seller is killed off right away. Is Az protecting the Asian sellers?

I am just about to attempt an stealth from Hong Kong. If you cant beat em, join em...