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Re: Action required: Re-verify your Amazon seller account
 

Moved and never given your ssn = still fresh

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Yes I guess I’m going to put this account in the trash

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How many sellers do you estimate will amazon lose as a result of this constant torture do you estimate? It is one thing after another with them. Tiring.

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Nothing new. Been like this forever. I've been selling on Amazon for 16 years. It's one thing after another.

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Sigh.

100k sellers will disappear? At this point in time I just can't wait for BTC to hit $ 1000000 ($1 Million each) and I will just call it a day and retire.

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In my case (re-verification after ID expired) I can not disburse funds.

I have 60 days to upload verification documents otherwise disbursements may be disallowed according to my notification.
I carried on selling in the meantime but notice today's disbursement was missed.

On my payment dashboard the disbursement is now set for 2 weeks time and the the request disbursement button is active but leads to a page noting 'this account is not currently eligible for on demand disbursement '.

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You won't get the funds unless you verify the account.

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Can you upload your docs then?

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Yes, but if they are rejected are the funds lost?

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If your documents are 'wrong' and they know it they will keep your monies.

If you're confident that they have made a mistake and you are entitled to it then you can use the legal rout via, say, the Small Claims Court.

They know very few will legally challenge them though.....

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Reading back through this thread it seems others who got 60 day verification request could cash out. Not sure why I can't? Everything thing else is accessible and I can still sell.

I'm think this was triggered by changing bank account last week (we are beyond 3 day hold). Or do Amazon automatically reverify when ID expired? Haven't read about it before.

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Diversify and wait

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Ok I wanted to update on this.

I logged back in and was able to disburse available funds. Not sure why I couldn't last night? It was well beyond 3 days from updating my bank account for deposits.

I will try to disburse other funds in 2 weeks before submitting verification documents.

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I spoke too soon. It went through the motions of a manual disbursement (on screen confirmation and available funds defaulting to zero)....but I didn't receive email confirmation and logging back in I can see nothing has changed.

It looks like in this case they won't be disbursing until after verification is complete

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Makes sense on their end

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It's obvious.

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Well, on page 4 of this thread it would appear everyone could still disburse.

I carried on selling for a week or two so have more funds locked up now :violin:

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Been there many years ago now.

Same experience, went through the motions of disbursing funds only later to find out it failed. it will allow you to 'disburse' again too.

I'm sure they do it deliberately to twist the knife.

I think you're a slightly different case to the others. You're being asked to verify a recent change. The others are being asked to simply re-verify existing info.

Some of the posters on this threads aren't even Amazon sellers, they simply post for the sake of it. Same with most threads nowadays just full of inane waffle from those who haven't created an account or sold online for years and years.

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It you all read amazon forum it’s been full of issues recently they been holding funds for various reasons even though on the phone seller support admitted that they getting huge calls emails from sellers and they simply don’t have resources

I heard it’s around 24k eu sellers blocked due to vat issues and then bank account verification separate

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Usually you have a couple of tries before they really shut you down.

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FML I got hit with the same. 60 days to re-verify. Account is 5-6 years old, it was opened with a LLC that I never filed for, just got EIN on it. Point of contact was a made up person, never asked to be verified, no ID ever submitted.

It's a major account with tons of expensive FBA inventory and money. Disburses to a personal bank account in my real name. The way I see it I have 2 options:

1. Order an ID in the name of the person used, and try to get it through. Doctor up the bank statement to match the name, address, etc.
2. Try to use my real info and real ID as some people suggested, which was suspended 10 years ago but never with SS or ID, and have a different address now.

Maybe I should start recalling all my inventory just in case? So I don't get caught and lose inventory AND money in 60 days? I plan on waiting for the 60 days to pass before I attempt to re-verify hoping disbursements still keep coming and inventory sells down a bit? Super stressful!

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Quick question, anyone ever manage to order an ID and use that to re-verify? Do they have a way to figure out if it's real or not? Supposedly there are services out there that provide scannable working IDs? Is that an option or not really?
Also doctoring up the rest of the bank docs and etc to match what they are asking for? They can't really see the real information from your bank statements or verify the info correct?

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if you have never provided any ID previously for verification and are at a new address you should just change the address on the account to your legit address and put your real name as the point of contact and submit your real ID

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Is it true Amazon shares info from .co.uk to .com?

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I believe they do.

Whilst I have no personal experience there have been a few posts on the main AMZ forums to suggest they do. i.e. Suspension on .com shortly followed by suspension on .co.uk.

I know this isn't quite the same as you asked but clearly there's data sharing.

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Yes it’s true from last couple of years they start sharing the info

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Don’t know why people still taking such a big risk on amazon accounts, as soon you send them @@@@ ID they will shut your account and freeze your funds and inventory

You will never able to get funds and inventory

It’s message for all those who still using Stleath ID’s sooner or later they will get ban with funds frozen

Even in recent days amazon gone more strict

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Agree in general, but what is the alternative? Some of us are stuck with several stealth accounts and our personal info was already used and suspended. What options do we have short of leaving the business and getting a job?

I'm going to try forming a new LLC with a virtual mailbox address, get a business account, and then using my own name as a point of contact and maybe submitting my passport for verification if they ask, but not sure if that would fly. Kind of sucks to spend time and money on forming new LLCs and getting EIN and all that just to find out they don't like it and it doesn't work.

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Do you believe this will work? I'm just so afraid to go that route just to find out that now the account is linked to my old suspended self from 10 years ago..

I haven't sent them an ID ever, and my personal account was suspended more than 10 years ago. I do have a new address. But why change the address when the LLC address is already good? Or you mean not the company address just the point of contact name and address?

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You don't need to change the address. Only point of contact info.

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Just the contact info.

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I have it on 2 accounts and actually unable to ship to FBA in both accounts. Let's see if disbursements still come as scheduled.

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Can you verify usa point of contact with foreign registered accounts like Ukraine?

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USA? Doubt it

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Did anyone do this?

QUOTE=rsot;1216421]USA? Doubt it[/QUOTE]

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I had a foreign account with a foreign legal entity. I changed point of contact to a person in the USA and passed. I'm not sure if it will work the other way around.

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No, you can't

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Should I recall all FBA inventory before I attempt to re-verify an account? (I know, probably a stupid question as that's usually step #1)

Also should I wait for the end of the 60 days allowed to begin re-verifying so I can sell out as much as I can of my inventory before a possible lost account?

My situation is:
Accounts have made up point of contact. Perfect metrics, have been running for years.
Bank accounts on both disburse into my personal bank accounts, two different banks. Personal bank accounts.
One of the accounts has an LLC ownership info that was never actually filed, but got an EIN for the entity. I just went ahead and filed an LLC for it just in case they do a search. I used partnership of my real name and the made up name point of contact for the LLC. I'm thinking I may go and open a bank account for that matching LLC just in case as well. Ideally on that account I'm thinking I would try to switch the point of contact to my real name, and maybe switch the banking info to my new LLC bank account that matches the LLC info? Or try to submit an existing statement showing the disbursements but just add the LLC name instead of my name on it? Sounds like that won't fly though as Amazon somehow sees the name and address of the bank account. (the address matches the LLC address btw)

I don't know, I'm so lost, it's such a mess.

Also can we change point of contact currently in our settings in our account or not unless we try to re-verify first and they don't accept our first attempt?

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Maybe this is a stupid question but do business accounts have a point of contact? I can’t seem to a find a “point of contact” anywhere in my account settings.

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Check in login settings if there is a name in there.