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Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

Does amazon care if all my products sold in my shop are bought via amazon physical gift card. I will aim to build the shop very slowly, and to sell used unbranded products but all my customers will be buying them with fresh accounts using physical amazon UK giftcard, will this cause any flags or any sort of suspension as they wont be any card payments (maybe 5% of all transactions, but nothing more than that)??

Thanks in Adv :)

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

Nope, none at all. If they are legit buyers, there should be no problem.

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

Ok lovely thank you you for your reply

so if i was able to get discounted legitimate gc, I could just buy the items from my own shop (as long as my set up is correct, tracking provided etc) and amazon wouldnt suspect a thing??

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I'd advise against it. Not are they only strict with GC payments, but the fact that you're gonna do a sales manipulation is very dangerous.

Amazon detects these kinds of things very well from what I've seen.

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Even if I use a separate VM, IP, email, shipping address for each buyer account and ensure that the amazon gift cards are legitimately sourced ?

I would also build up the sales organically, the only thing is that all the payments will be from gift card and no debit/credit card and this is what I really would like to know, if this would cause my account to be flagged

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

They will most likely request a statement which you have to provide

I think its rare to have a shop with VCC using only GCs without a statement request

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

The shop doesnt have a vcc, its my personal account with mr credit card attached to it

and do you mean a bank statement? If so, what will this prove to them ??

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

Avoid repeated use of gc

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The thing about amazon is that anything that's out of the ordinary has a risk of getting nuked by them.

I'm very scared of amazon honestly so I do everything by the book.

And I haven't even started talking about the Chinese competitors who like to play dirty.

So you have amazon and those competitors against you.

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

why does one want to buy items from his own shop using dicounted gift cards?
The shop has to pay AMZN fees?

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

The GC is legitimate (receipts are kept) and is being used on the fresh buyer accounts with Vmware and fresh ip. would you still avoid using gc is this instance ??

Thanks

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

Yes but what is your intention. The seller fees will be higher than the discount on the gift card. In the UK it is possible to obtain genuine discounted Amazon GC in volume with a small % advantage ie 3%. Unwanted GC’s in low numbers can be bought at around 7%. Beyond this the origin of the discount will be money laundering, stolen cash, stolen Credit cards etc.

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

Well I do not know if its being stolen etc and to be honest thats not really my problem, there is no possible way of chargeback right? Since it is always bought with cash and receipts are there to prove so

Re: Amazon shop vs giftcards problem ?!??!?
 

If you are buying from our Nigerian friends over the usual forums/marketplaces at circa 20 to 25% discount there is a high probability that the retailer will be able to identify with BlackHawk/Amazon where the ‘dodgy money’ Gift Card was used. A private individual will probably just lose his account. Doing this on a large scale running a business will have other consequences. Take care my friend.