temptation84 | 08-05-2014 02:14 PM | Failed Amazon review 2 years into the accountS?! I'm pretty much at a loss for what happened here and I'm posting this info in case somebody has recently had a similar experience where something may match up with my experience and we can figure out the cause of this.
I had a 3 seller accounts on Amazon that were all more than 2 years old (except one was only 1 month old, maybe not even), been selling inexpensive, NOT high risk items with no problems for those years. Suddenly out of the blue they were all closed on 08/02. Yet my 5 other seller accounts remain open, still.
I received the "your seller account has failed our review" e-mail but never got notice that they were even under review. It does show that I can issue an appeal so it is not being noted as a permanent action. I don't think I will appeal until I can figure out the cause as I do not want to somehow risk the accounts that are still open. Not a big loss but it bothers me that I cannot figure out the reasoning.
Sales were not abnormal in comparison to sales levels over the last 2 years, products were not high risk, different VMWare machines for each account, spoofing the browsers and fonts with each one, disabling java script, disabling flash, keeping very close watch to ensure different IP addresses were always used, bank info was all different and deposits have been going through fine.
There are only two things that I can think of that may have caused this:
1) In most all orders tracking was never uploaded as there were no tracking numbers for the items. This was never an issue with customers but wonder if it threw a flag? No tracking because they are such small items they go in regular envelopes.
2) For the last 2 years they always badgered about giving a tax ID because I was approaching the 50 sales limit where tax ID is required. However I always ensured that I never completed more than 49 transactions on each account. I wonder if not providing tax information for a period longer than 2 years throws some kind of flag even if you don't meet the requirement for providing it? That does not explain the month old account that got closed though.
Any thoughts? Similar experiences? |