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What caused you to get banned by Amazon?
 

just curious.

thanks

Having a UK (I shall not specifically give name) software company dropship PC/Mac games directly to my customers. Not bad in itself eh? However, several of those titles I was unbeknownstly sending people like Willy Beamish game with about a dozen other games ripped to it. All in a cheap, bad copy cover of weird alien creatures having nothing in common with ripped games.

Now I did specify the games that were not originals and stated as such in description. My understanding was that they were modern, updated, single games versions in each DVD case. It wasn't until I ordered several dozen games to keep in stock to ship w/ confirmation number that I stumbled upon the ghastly realization. By then I received three negatives within two weeks. Amazon immediately suspended my account for 30 days for review.

That in itself wasn't as bad as shutting down my other account selling legit PC games and not-quite-so-legit DS games. After closing down my first account they of course linked my 2nd account. Too bad as I was making about $2600 every two weeks. Will do much better when I open stealth accounts.

did you open a stealth account suscessfully?

Not yet. I'm a bit tentative using same computer I've gotten suspended accounts with. Even taking all precautions from stealth book there are members here posting amazon is still linking them to suspended accounts from same computer. I have ordered a new laptop online and will go stealth upon recieving it.

I just don't get that part.
Say I'm in south Florida on vacation and I log into my Am acct on the hotel computer. Well, lets just say that some other guest in the past did the same thing with a 'now banned' acct.

Am i screwed? b/c now I'm linked to a banned acct?

makes no sense to me honestly.

i think amazon will take that into consideration

still. it seems unreasonable.
makes no real difference to me as I already have 3 towers and 3 laptops here at the house.

I really don't know why I was suspended (indefinitely). I made the mistake of selling too much at one time, so I guess they got nervous and decided to give me the ax just in case.

what were you selling?

Suspended. I was selling books and the same audiobook set a few times. But it's permanent and i have 3 total linked accounts. I have no idea why. A policy violation is what they say.

I have a friend who worked at eBay, and he said if you went to a library and signed into your account, and someone before you who was banned signed in, you were then linked and there was nothing you could do about it.

He told me to be very careful about where I log in.

So if eBay does it, you can bet Amzn does it.

Az is much harder than eb - with deletion policy and linking.

same happening in outside of USA?

I think I got suspended because i sold too much as well...they put me on the review and when I was 3 days away from the 30 days to get over it they screwed me