| amzpro | 09-26-2016 08:18 PM |
Has anyone been linked and suspended for doing the following?
Ok, so I've read plenty about how people got linked for listing the same inventory, but I'm getting the impression that the inventory they were listing was unique, and that they are the only seller. They were also re-listing inventory from a previously suspended account.
My situation is different. I have no prior suspensions, and my typical product has 5 - 10 offers (that are not mine) on them. I'm 100% FBA and am generally competing against FBA sellers. Now, the way the buy box works, the buy box generally rotates equally among FBA sellers with equal pricing. So if there's 4 equal FBA offers on a product, and I put up an equal offer with 1 account, I get a 1/5th share of the sales. If I put up 4 listings on 4 accounts, I get 4/8ths of the sales. It also discourages new sellers from getting on the product since it gives the ASIN an appearance that there's a ton of competition already.
My plan is to have 6 accounts by the end of the year, and have 2 - 6 FBA offers (depending on # of competitors and how profitable that ASIN is) on every listing I have, and have the inventory on each account vary so it's not like there's 6 identical accounts.
So, my question is, has there ever been an incidence of someone being suspended for doing something similar? I know there's TONS of sellers on Amazon who use this tactic to monopolize the buy box and have been around for a long time. They even make it painfully obvious by having the same condition notes on their offers, and having the same info under their about the seller section on the storefront. I do not enter condition notes and I leave everything else as the default, so there's nothing to link there. | 
