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Shared sales among stealth accounts.
 

I have two stealth accounts. I have two so one can serve as back up. I sell only books by FBA. Anytime I upload inventory I also upload a ratio of 10:1 FBM of other random books to dilute the inventory. These FBM books are >$500 and never sell.

There are ~600-1000 unique asins I sell regularly. When inventory gets low I take turns sending in new inventory between the two accounts.

I generally wait till I have ~100 books to send in by FBA to be economical. I believe I could create a system to allocate a 50/50 asin split between the two accounts so they are 100% unique. This is of course based only on the remaining unique asins not sold on either account yet (which is not much). Implementing this would constipate my business logistically and decrease the rate of FBA replenishment as I wait for the allocated asins for each account to build up for new shipments.

Total combined inventory on both accounts are ~14000. All books.

The two accounts share the same sales. Would Amazon link by sales alone?

Re: Shared sales among stealth accounts.
 

Even then, sales would resemble my original suspended account. I've always made sure to dilute inventory, but I've never seriously considered sales.

All the book inventory I sell is the same asin's as my original suspended account. If I hypothetically dispersed asin's 50/50 among both stealth accounts so they are unique to each other, their sales would be still a 100% match of asin sales to my original suspended account.

If I was selling a few asins only, I would commingle other asin sales (even if at a lose) to dilute sales history. But in my case, there are ~600-1000 unique asins I sell regularly so this proves unpractical.

Can some veterans confirm if amazon matches based on sales history?

Re: Shared sales among stealth accounts.
 

Even if Amazon does link based on matched sales, how in the world am I supposed to get enough inventory of a new asin which I could actually sell? Even if it was 5:1 of the 1000 asins I sell. Thats 5000 new asins that I must actually sell, not just dummy asin's as I am doing now.

Can anyone give some constructive advice?

Re: Shared sales among stealth accounts.
 

There is no certainty with linking your accounts to previously suspended accounts

If you sell the same products as previously suspended stores you’ll have a higher chance of getting linked than if you were selling entirely unique products

Just keep the ratio as high as you can, introduce and sell unique products on each account, and hope for the best :)