Amazon emails: very confusing

[mandt]

Hey guys, I received this following notification from AZ on the 25 of Nov (a month ago)!

Hello from Amazon.

We are writing to let you know that we are conducting a review of your selling account. During the review, a rolling reserve will be applied to funds in your seller account.

The reserve will be equivalent to your gross sales amount for the preceding 14 days. Based on your order volume, the amount of the reserve may change daily.

You can view your account balance and reserve amount in the Payments section of your seller account. When your account balance exceeds the reserve amount, funds will be available per your disbursement schedule.

Account reviews are intended to ensure the timely shipment of orders and compliance with our selling policies. Please continue to fulfill orders and list only items that you are able to ship by or before the Expected Ship Date.

For information on how you may be able to expedite this review, search on “Velocity Limits and Account Reviews” in seller Help.

We will notify you by e-mail when our account review is complete.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation.

Best regards,

Merchant Approval Team
http://www.amazon.com

Then just a few minutes ago I get this one, entitled "Your Amazon.com selling privileges have been reinstated."

Hello from Amazon.

We are writing to let you know that we have removed the temporary hold on the funds in your seller account.

You may access your account at anytime to disburse funds. Once a transfer of funds is initiated, the funds should arrive within 5 working days.

We appreciate your patience while we evaluated your account.

Regards,

Seller Performance Team
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

My account status is "active" as of now, I've done a lot of dumb $*** on this account prior to the review (bought my own item with same cc and computer to give myself good feedback... sold 40 items and only received 2 feedback of 5 star.....) Can this be possible? What kinda twisted games is AZ playing!!!

[BigCJ]

why post in 2 sections?

it means they are reviewing your account and it would seem like you have passed the review.

You got a rolling reserve first because amazon wanted to test who you were and if youre really shipping the items sold.
Then you passed and the reinstated your account.

Keep doing what youre doing, ship items out, gain feedback and dont abuse their kindness.

And in the future, I would NOT buy stuff from myself to gain a quick feedback exchange.

Also: it would be wise to change the heading of your topic... I have a feeling GB will be a-lurkin and change it for you