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Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

what is the size of your order,may be it is large enough to justify prime shipping.
It is those small orders like sushi wrapper,bread pudding mix,paper towel bar,these are money losers with free and fast shipping

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

it was just EBAY which come down on retail arbitragers,now AMZN is doing the same,same and next day is expensive and it is meant for prime shoppers,buying for themselves.
ANother problem is that when the buyer finds out it comes from AMZN,he will go to AMZN and find outhe can buy it for less,so he will find an excuse to return the item and buy from AMZN,SOME OF these returns cannot be resealed and sold again,sot is a loss for AMZN
They dont talk about it on EBay and many Ebay retail arbitragers have their selling privilege removed by Ebay,they can still buy.

But some do take in inventory ,esp those add on items ,so they can keep selling on Ebay

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

It has nothing to do with the gift option, this is just my opinion

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Do you really believe Amazon wants to stop this? I don't buy it!

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

stop what?
gift card or retail arbitrage.
There is this one page article today on AMZN on WSJ,stating a group of engineers are working on their search ranked by profits,and their own brands are more profitable so they wil show up high in search results.
AMZN spent too much on shipping,like $4 billions and want to reduce it the best they can.
I dont blame them,I have bought sushi wrapper,paper towel,ink cartridge dropshipped from AMZN and they all arrive the next day,I paid zero shipping

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Don’t come to the forum claiming Amazon is stopping Dropshipping with gift cards based on your own personal experience. I know people still placing hundreds of orders a day. Get real.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Second off, unless you are placing absurdly high volume items, it’s almost impossible for Amazon to tell. They cannot hold orders or they would lose customer satisfaction. I believe nothing you post based on logic and my own personal experience

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

That should be a perfect explanation yes.

So far i can create prime accounts successfully as before yes. I have my own source for vcc and proxy yes. As for address i pick a real estate website like zillow or realtor and then i pick an address but not as it is in the site. If an address is like "32 st west nj Unit 409" I make that as "32 st west nj Unit 405". Because consider the address were already used so u have to change a bit. And it should be fine.


@Forest1 You are absolutely right. But as always there will be another way to fight it back.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

I had 3 buyer accts, 3 user ids, all had student prime, all had different cc info, two had same billing address and 1 had different. Same billing address accts got closed together citing gc issue email from address verification. i uploaded 500 card which may have triggered it. Same acct was reinstated last week but closed again. Perhaps amz business acct is the way forward for dropshippers with longer shipping times? Maybe system gets triggered when order value is over $50? Clearly there is a way around it coz big ds services like priceyak n easync fullfilling customer orders in 100s daily.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Were these stealth or legit? Where did you obtain gift cards?

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Legit info on all, gc were all good with cash reciepts.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Well,

Something changed for sure. I always buy GC with cash receipt and my acc has been locked for:

We took these actions because either the Amazon Gift Card or the Amazon Gift Card balance you are using is in violation of our Terms and Conditions. We cannot reissue the gift card or reimburse you for these funds. For further details, we suggest that you contact the party who sold or gave you the gift card.

Please note that buying Amazon.com gift cards by unauthorized third parties, and sold or transfer-for-value of Amazon.com gift cards is a violation of our terms.

You can find more information on the Amazon.com. Help page: www.amazon.com/gc-legal

If you believe we took this action in error, please email us the attachment of the gift card purchase receipt, or other documentation such as an email from the sender, authorize all the Amazon Gift Cards used to place the order 112-8089008-4469854.

I send to them gift cards and receipt. Guess what they said ?:

Thank you for providing us with the requested information.

We could not confirm your account details because your attachment was insufficient.


So I dont know what else I must do :/

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

I noticed it gets triggered becoz of following:
- ordering branded expensive stuff like apple watch ipad etc
- ordering bestbuy nike lowe physical gift cards
- loading big gc amount like 500 card.

Any orders below 20 r the quickest to go through

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Amazon restricted gift card as payment for some selected type of products. This time its wide range. U dont know which ones so its more like a gamble till this game is perfected again.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

anyone can help me i stuck on making prime on amazon every time i use cc they lock my account saying could not verify billing address....need help on this

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

They work as machines. That's why many people hate amazon

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Very apt im facing the exact same issues
Amazon strarted this same **** just around march and april but had to discontinue it due to so many complains and them also loosing money


But Amazon need to redefine what exactly they want and expect from folks who use gift cards as a mode of payment.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Everyone is facing this; like EVERYONE. So long as you are dropshipping with Gc. The source of the GC does NOT matter. It's no longer business as usual. I and others I know were dropshipping in 100s but it's no longer the same.

The whole Drama started around March/April and has since gotten worse. Amazon itself is loosing HEAVILY. In the recent weeks they're are now being more sensibly on how they shut down the accounts, before they'll take you down without giving a f**ck, now they try to make it clear why they did.

Even prime, they've started marketing prime aggressively because the bulk of the accounts they were closing were prime accounts, so it really dropped the number of prime subscribers. Ironically they've made prime signup more strict. Before you can use one CC to make multiple prime accounts, now you can't, most fresh VCC's now are also been blocked.

This whole drama started around March when they decided to offer One day shipping by default to prime members, instead of two day shipping. They were choked with order delivery and robbed off millions of dollars as a result of this 'experiment', they investigated and found out that a large percentage of prime orders are droppshipped, and are paid via gc. Then they started the crack down on dropshipping with prime and this also aggravated there Hate for resale of gc(buying gc on forums, marketplaces, etc).

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Yeah for sure. I have talked with Amazon customer service and they told me to never again buy GC from the shops. Only from their website

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Someone provide proof and a link of a product on amazon where you cannot use gift cards (because they are trying to block it)

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

as I mentioned above, buying GC from a private seller is VERY risky.

I get the discount, but it's just not worth it.

Re: Whats wrong with Amazon Buyer Accounts lately? No gift card orders anymore?
 

Even before now there are orders which you can't place with gc, it is not stated on the order/product page but you get to find out when you reach the checkout page. Even on Amazon Gc T&C it is clearly stated, you can use gc only for eligible items(not all items are gc eligible), tho jst a tiny fraction.

For the current situation, you should know that it makes NO logical sense for amazon to block more orders from been placed with gc just to handle the situation. They simply have to tweak their Algorithms so orders placed with gc becomes more 'High risk'.