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Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

Have you ever witnessed a case where Amazon suspended an account for selling counterfeit items in the past? In other words, would Amazon ban your account now because you sold ⊗⊗⊗⊗ items a year ago even though these listings have already been ended months ago as well?

Re: Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

Yes they can, even if you been selling that ASIN and now its not even seller central they can still send you warning

Re: Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

Yes, just because the SKU has gone the ASIN hasn't.

I sold counterfeit belts about 8 years ago. Deleted the listings/sku's about four years ago.

About 6 months ago I got a raft of authenticity issues for these belts and the account was suspended. Either the rights holder did a deep search on the ASIN database or someone added stock to the ASIN and made it easily visible again for the rights holder, bots, or a competitor. I guess I'll never know.

Re: Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

But will Amazon do this deep search itself or just wait for a rights holder to do it?

Re: Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

Who knows only amazon can tell you this info

Re: Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

I don't know but we have to assume Amazon are doing deep searches given they now hit us with 'suspected intellectual property violations' as well as 'received intellectual property complaints'.

Re: Does Amazon suspend accounts for past infringements?
 

If it's a year ago, and you haven't done anything like that with the account since, plus you're building the acc with legitimate items, No.

It takes 6 months for infractions to clear, if nothing happens within that period, then most likely you're clear.