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Amazon Velocity Limits
 

So we all know that the 28-day velocity limit is $750.
My question is this:
From experience does the velocity limit increase after the 28 period.
(After reading some forums, i learned its based on customer feedback).
So what could we expect the velocity limits to be (considering that you get under 10 ratings a month, all positive)


1st month: $750
2nd month: ---
3rd month: ---
4th month: ---

Simply add $300 a month is the safe bet.

I have personally more-than-doubled sales for the second month (after passing the first limit) and have had no problems so far. Knock on wood.

750 Velocity limit is not accurate. I had an account that made 200 and had 100 sitting and it went into review . selling used items. So it is just them doing a random review on accounts.

Actually, $750 IS accurate. Were you selling "used" DVD's?

Did the email you received state something about the 30 day review, and that they do this on faster growing accounts and that it does not mean that you did anything wrong?

I'm asking because I have had MANY, MANY Amazon accounts and have NEVER had one go into review after $200. Not even back in the days when I sold DVD's...

You mean you did 1500 the second month without getting reviewed?

Did you get reviewed the first month beforehand?

Here is what I know FOR SURE about Amazon and Velocity Limits...

$750 the first month. Usually a safe bet. If, by some off chance, you get a ton of positive feedbacks, you may be able to exceed that. But getting feedback on Amazon is difficult. On eBay, between 30% and 50% of my buyers leave feedback. On Amazon, it is more like 10% - 20%. And Amazon WANTS 20%.

In subsequent months, you can go over. The more positive feedback you have, the more you can go over. I've never been able to nail the amounts. Some suggest $150 for each positive feedback, but I cannot confirm that.

HOWEVER - if you sell in a high-risk category, such as DVD's, reviews can come at any time, no matter how much feedback you have.

Amazon has soft reviews (my terminology, I don't know what they call them) where a rep reviews your account and all activity is suspended for 10-20 minutes. You can undergo this without ever knowing it.

Then there is the 30 day review. All funds are held in your account until the review is over. Maybe it takes 28 days, maybe 32, but I have not known anyone to get the review done any faster. During this time, it is best to add tracking numbers on EVERYTHING you sell.

Some people use the term review and suspension interchangably, but there is a difference. During a review, you can still list and sell.

Amazon, to my knowledge, does not do suspensions the way that eBay does. If they do not like what you are doing, they simply block you. That means you are banned for life and they hold your money for 90 days from the day the account was blocked.

If you seem to be having a problem in a specific area, like shipping time, a rep will contact you via email and make suggestions as to how you can improve. They will tell you that you have "X" (whatever time period) to improve. That only happened to me once, and my money was not held as in a typical review. I WAS able to get the account back to where it should have been in the first place.

The 30 day reviews are triggered automatically. I have seen them go both ways. Sometimes you pass, other times you don't. One of the posters above said it was $200, but I have to believe that Amazon saw something they did not like, I have had many, MANY Amazon accounts and have never triggered a review after $200 in sales.

So how is it possible that you can double your velocity limit?
Would you need something like 7 feedback? Or is there a cap no matter how much feedback you get

Feedback helps, however no specific numbers are known.

Yes, thats correct. After selling about $750 - $800 in my first month, I received notice of a 30 day review. I had no feedback at that time. I immediately emailed my buyers and requested feeback. I received 3 positives. I then sent an email to Amazon, including the tracking numbers and the information that was requested. I received an email reply 2 days later that my review was lifted and funds were available to me. In my second month, I sold over $1500 with no issues. And I am still knocking on wood.

Does the velocity limit reset on the 1st of every month for every seller or is it a different date for everyone?

You should always upload the tracking numbers when you go to confirm the shipment. If you only upload them when asked for it doesn't look so good when Amazon does a review of your account. I have always uploaded the tracking information when confirming the shipment and have never had a 30 day review. And yes I sold more than $750 in the first month and it was dvds. But I did not sell all $750 at one time. I did $400-500 in a two week period and then went and sold more. If you try to blow out a bunch of stuff at one time that will draw attention to your account.

Multiple of factors - prob related to category of sales, feedback, amount sold, and longetivity. Case point: I have had accounts going in review after 200 or so when I had many listings up - Another account sold 4k+ in 1 week and was still having no review.

It's a big judgement call - there's nothing 100% guaranteed to work. I have a suspicion that they also have some monitoring of IP log-in.

cardfelon,

I sold many DVDs in 2 days and made around 800 bucks and they notified me saying that I was under a review. I bought the postage through amazon and all the tracking information was already on the site and I even had 2 good feed backs, but they ended up suspending my account even after telling them that I could supply invoices. I guess my mistake was selling too many DVDs in a very little time.

IF you pass the review ---
It's not necessarily the 1st of every month, it's on a 28 day rolling. So for example, if your review starts on the 15th of a 30 day month then if you pass the limits reset on the 13th of the next month.

I sold less than $750 ( about $734) in first 14 days of account but still under review by Amazon, have I have any wrong???

$750 = Order Totals + Shipping fee total - Amazon fees
or:
$750 = Order Totals + Shipping fee total
or:
$750 = Order Totals

pls help, thanks

Welcome to the forum VN99LHO,

Have you read through the post and seen what people have said or have you just jumped into posting?

Lot of details are missing - what did you sell, feedback, etc. Post a lot more info and you will get better response. As for now, you are under review by Amazon - provide all the info they need and wait patiently.

Or set up new account...

Hope to see more of your contributions as you get informed. All the best

It would be #1- the TOTAL amount the buyer pays you goes towards the $750 (or whatever the velocity limit is)

So for example if my I opened my account on say the 3rd of November, and made a sale that day, it would reset 28 days after that sell?

"Errors (2)

* Your application to register as a merchant on Amazon has been declined.
* Our review is a proprietary process, and we cannot share the reasons for failed applications, nor the criteria by which applications are evaluated.

"

I see it when I register multi account, anybody what happen to me?

are you using the same computer? same name/address etc?

I'm guessing most accounts won't get banned after a review if you aren't selling a ton of the same item. Mix things up a bit and see what happens. I haven't tried doing this but I'm going to.

From my experience I believe that Amazon also has daily velocity limits at least for the 1st 30 days.

Well considering you are from VIETNAM and might be trying to fool amazon by pretending you are in the USA, that's one possible reason.

Just so you know, the forum needs the flag to be of the country where you are.
Yours is VIETNAM so leave it as that :peace:

My first month I sold about 800... reviewed and within the month it was being reviewed I sold 2300. Last month I sold about 3300 ( 90 items sold - 15 feedback received ) and got a neutral feedback and instant review came after that neutral feedback.

I've also noticed that sometimes they allow some accounts to pass the 750 starting limit. Some of my accounts occasionally get lucky and with no feedback or nothing special get all the way up to the 1,300+ before they talk about review process. The most one account got to before review and no feedback was 1,700. Think its just random luck.

do velocity limits apply during the holidays? everyone knows that during the holidays sales go through the roof on amazon. I expect to triple my sales. my account is 6 months old, I have not heard of any review notices from amazon yet.

1st month 800.00
2nd month 300.00
3rd month 1800.00
4th month 2500.00
5th month 1200.00
last 30 days 4500.00

100% pos feedback (50)

if I sell 10K the next 30 days, would they consider that a velocity violation?

Thank you!

There's no way to know for sure, but I mean hitting your velocity limit is nothing to worry about really. If you got 100% feedback then all that will happen is they might pause it for a while and then pass you after the review is done. Not a big deal.

My Amazon account just went into review

It has about 15 feedbacks with 71 orders.

It is almost 4 months old. It hit velocity of $750

Two orders are considered late shipment with one being cancelled by Amazon fairly quickly because the confirm button was not hit. That is because I did not have the item and couldn't get it, it is rare

SO I don't know how long it will take but it says 30 days. It says I can expedite the process by sending in info they already have, tracking numbers where and how I get my inventory which is only yard sales and second hand stores etc.. so it is a variety of items, never the same thing so cannot do much for them really to expedite it. I'll sell on this account while they do the review.

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i don't think you will have much problems with the review if your items are listed and sold as used.

The amazon buyers are so damn annoying. I remember selling 90+ items in 2 weeks and only received 6 feedbacks. 6 out of 90 something!!! Are you kidding me? The no wonder it got suspended...

:clap: Thanks I just hope they don't take a whole 30 days to review it and I am not helping them by sending tracking numbers they already have or answering their questions. They've screwed me up like crazy which is fine but they leave their screw ups in my numbers in customer metrics

That last order that is considered "late" is a order placed just yesterday, computer problems again. The customer emailed me thru amazon and asked me about the shiping date so they can't get out of admitting the computer messed up

The other late shipment is their computer error too but they refuse to admit it. I sold a rare item two weeks prior to them interjecting it back into my inventory somehow and letting a guy buy it. It was rare so I couldn't get another one. They tell me i inputed the number 3 so I keep telling them that though the third one is not in my inventory, so it will somehow show up and be bought a third time. They refuse to note that because that meand accountability and when it happens again, it means their computer made an error a 3rd time

Their computer system is bizarre....

they will not fix their computer system errors and let it go into my customer metrics saying they will make a note of it. I suspect I will be booted after a while but who knows. Been thinking that for a long time now and it hasn't happened.

That's about what my other account averages in fb so it will probably go down. agreed, it is annoying

Make sure to empty your account daily.

If there is relatively little money in the account, they will not be able to hold much of your money hostage if they decide to review your account.

They may decide that it is not worth it to suspend your account if there is almost nothing in it.

how much money you have in your account has nothing to do with it. I had an account with $0 minus unshipped sales I made that day and it was suspended that night. I believe your account gets soft reviews for number of items sold in a day as well. As I had $600 in sales, then I made ~$120 in sales 22 days later and without any notice they suspended my account. The worst part is, it could have been 100% legit if I had bought a bunch of new dvds on black friday for cheap and sold them for more on amazon. Just take your money out asap and give em the stick as often as you can

I received an email that about 100 dollars went thru, it left Amazon and would take 3-5 days to register in the bank. then they either stole it back from the bank or didn't tell the truth the first time. They reversed it the following day

So they are into $$. their own website tells of their formula regarding implementing a reserve amount and I meet none of the criteria.

No chargebacks, a-z, neutrals or negatives. Their customer metrcis jumps up everyday, now i am at 20% late shipment though I've never been late. This account has some major computer issues

When my account went into review last time I had just requested my $$$ from them and again a neutral came few hours later and my money never showed up into my bank amazon kept it alright..

Amazon reversed your deposit request.
I am sure if you check back in 90 days you will be able to withdraw your balance.

Welcome to the forums. Yes - they may hold your funds for 90 days if the review finishes and they block your account. All the best.