Account Deactivated with no reason, no warning when we have no violations

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Account Deactivated with no reason, no warning when we have no violations

On Friday out of the blue I received a text message stating our account was being suspended due to a policy violation. This seemed to happen following a series of weird events on Thursday when I got several notifications that we'd been enrolled on remote fulfilment across most of Europe (which we as a business never asked to be!). I'd not changed settings in my account, only ensured we were only setup to ship within the UK. The text came shortly after I logged in to check this.

Oddly, there was no detail of what policy had been violated, but my account health showed we had perfect account health and no violations. Which can be seen from the picture below. When I tried to reactivate the account it asked for a utility bill dated within the last 90 days, which I supplied but still no luck. I called several times and eventually spoke to somebody who told me that we had failed to video verify our account (we did a video verification in 2023 as part of our account setup) but we did not receive any emails asking us to do this, nor any SMS message nor any cases within the support area (which is previously where all were received). I went through our email folder, including spam. I even asked IT to review the server logs for the past 3 months, and nothing matching the email Amazon claim to have sent us.

I spoke to a support assistant who said they'd raise an internal review as clearly, based on our account having perfect health, us using FBA, having a registered copyright branded store and paying for Amazon Ads services then they believed the problem is Amazon's.

Yet today I've received an email saying Amazon will now hold our funds then destroy or return our stock and deactivate our account. This time the wording was stronger and says we have violated policy (but again does not state what policy or what the violation is)

Has anybody else had this nonsense and what legal action might be possible against Amazon? I'd like to resolve the issue and return to selling but to take revenue and destroy stock without reason or warning seems beyond the pale and borderline illegal if no valid reason is given as per their terms and conditions of using the platform.

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Tags:Account Health, Deactivated, Seller Support, Suspended
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Seller_9Pdf7tanPgz0k

@Julia_Amazon @Winston_Amazon can either of you or any other moderators assist with this issue? I've logged back in after the weekend to see my case has been 'resolved' yet our store is still deactivated.

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Sakura_Amazon_

Hello @Seller_9Pdf7tanPgz0k,

As I understand, the Account Health Support Team has already asked for the second review, and I am following up with this request. I will keep you updated.

Regards,

Sakura

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Sakura_Amazon_

@Seller_9Pdf7tanPgz0k,

The review was completed and the the Team provided you with the new link to request the verification meeting. The Account Health Specialist was trying to contact you but they could no reach you.

Still, they shared with you the new link in the Notification that was sent few minutes ago.

Please review your Performance Notifications. Could you confirm that you found it?

Regards,

Sakura

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