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It seems AMAZON is enforcing strict tax id rule
 

Anyone still sell well without tax id provided?

a friend of mine is without any problems so far..

They almost immediately asked for mine.

I haven't had any issues. I wonder what triggers it.

have you sold more than 50 items?


Still selling items now?

How is this is a shock? It has been huge news for the past year or so. Adjust to the times or you will be lost in the online selling community.

My older accounts with 100% seasoned feedback got the selling items suspended but the funny thing is I have some newer accounts at 100+ orders with no problems. Go figure.

the tax bot hasnt hit them yet :)

New accounts will have more time to give tax id..

were the newer account created on or after October 1, 2012?

If you sign up for Pro-Merchant account you will be asked for it almost right away! Even during the sign up process I think.

If you just run a regular selling account you must have 50 transaction before they ask for it. I have had a couple regular accounts be allowed to go a few transactions over 50 before they asked for it but they always seem to pretty quickly ask for it these days once you near the 50 sales mark.

On accounts I want to keep for a long long time I just setup new LLC's and get EIN numbers to use ;) Works every time!

Amazon Ghost is way out of date and it needs to be updated.

this forum is the update

It's great to have the forum, but it is too daunting to try and gather all the important information together just from the forums. I would be happy to pay again for an updated Amazon Ghost.There is too much disinfo in Amazon Ghost because of how old the information is, and it needs to be rewritten. Look at my post here;

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/amazon/...tml#post419311

It's information like this that is vital to opening a stealth account and if someone reads Amazon Ghost, yet misses my post, they could do everything right and still get linked.

I have a feeling that if there is not a new Amazon Ghost in the works that someone else will provide a new guide.

You have to register the company in Delaware, if you want privacy.

I haven't read it, but from what I can tell, there is plenty of info in their to create a new account.

When did Amazon Ghost come out?

The Ghost guide is not out of date - still works a lot for individuals.

Your posting in http://www.aspkin.com/forums/amazon/...fo-amazon.html seems to be more business related

I have created many many stealth accounts (NOT because they are being shutdown)..... I assure you the info in ghost is not out of date. Sure there are some things I have learned on my own along the way that were not in the book but this has nothing to do with it being out of date, nor do I think it would be a good idea to add all of that information either.

Maybe I shouldn't be taking offense to this but if you feel the forums are to "daunting" to read through over a few nights of your life then maybe you should not be trying to run stealth accounts.

Many people here, including myself, have spent hundreds of hours on these forums and other places on the net gathering, reading and learning this information. Daunting it might be.... but nothing is too daunting if you really want to do it....

Business related? How do you figure? Amazon is asking for Tax info up front so if you ave already had an account suspended with your SSN you will have to create a DBA or LLC. I think it's very relevant regardless if it is a business. Unless you know away of getting around it without a DBA or LLC or using someone else s identity?

Creating a DBA is as simple as going to your local courthouse and saying I'm doing business as, oh I don't know... Ricky Gervais. Get a new tax ID from IRS . gov and you are now doing business as Ricky Gervais with a new tax ID. Amazon has no idea Ricky Gervais is you.

You're making this waaaaaaaaaaay too complicated. =}

Just remember though, you only get 1 tax ID as an individual, no matter how many DBA's you get.. so once that's burned, you gotta move on to the next thing.

hxxp://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219425

alter the xx in the link to make it work.. don't remember if I can use links, so didn't want to cause any trouble. Basically, opening up a corp in Nevada or Delaware isn't quite as beneficial as one may think..