Hi,

I have received an email that is either genuine or a very good fake, with the title "Email - Action Required: Amazon seller account review". It wants me to click on a link and answer some questions to arrange a virtual video call to confirm my identity, which I am happy to do, but I would like to confirm that the email is genuine before I input my merchant token etc.

I can't see anything within my seller account to indicate that this email has been sent, and the email also says that "Your Amazon selling account has been deactivated ", but there is no indication of this either, which makes me think the email may be a good scam.

Whenever I have used seller chat (for other issues), the replies that I get have been unhelpful and inaccurate (to be polite), and I see that the help that people get is on here is great, so that is why I am asking here first. Could an Amazon mod please take a look at my account and let me know if this email is genuine?

Also, if any Amazon sellers think that the email sounds genuine, do you know how long I might have before my account is actually deactivated?

Thank you very much

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Full email below FYI:

Dear Seller,

selling account has been deactivated in accordance with Section 3 of the Business Solutions Agreement. Amazon’s Business Solutions Agreement can be found here.

Why is this happening?

We have reviewed your account and would like to confirm your identity.

How do I verify my identity?

To verify your identity, you need to complete virtual identity verification over a video interview. To reserve a time slot for the interview, fill out the form here.

After we receive your response on this form, we will invite you for the interview on one of your preferred time slots, 48 hours before the interview. After your verification interview is complete, we will review the results and respond with the outcome within 5 business days.

We’re here to help.

If you have any questions, contact Selling Partner Support.

One of our customers placed an order with us and requested a cancellation shortly. We cancelled the order 11 days ago, and the customer just left us 1-start seller feedback saying, "Cancelled this order still not received a refund."

Isn't that should be Amazon's responsibility to refund the customer when the order is cancelled? They say that they cannot remove the feedback as it is "a direct reflection of their Amazon shopping experience" and tell us that we should contact the customer even though the contact buyer button is gone!

Hi Sarah, yes we did - here is the case ID: 9771277802. The status is ''transferred''.

I have also talked with the payment team via account support they accelerated the case to payment team but we haven't received any answers from the payment team since April 11, 2024.

Good Afternoon

I am just looking for some community support. We had our account suspended on the 31st January for violating a Section 3 Policy. Specifically shipping orders after we had marked them as shipped.

We have been going back and forth with Amazon ever since. Supplying Plan of Actions and also supporting documents but to no avail.

We did use Maersk Shipping services in the Netherlands as a shipping aggregator. We would ship parcels daily and have them collected from Maersk who then forwarded them to the final mile couriers.

In January we did receive a lot of enquiries on tracking. Our Shopify store at the time submitted the Maersk shipping number to amazon rather than the Final mile courier e.g. Hermes or Colis Prive.

At that time we had 14 delivery enquiries and on each one we updated the tracking number to the final mile courier. Now I think this has gone one or 2 ways. When we updated the order I can see from the data extract on Amazon that the updated shipping info day is now showing as the dispatch day. example we shipped an order on the 3rd January, it didn't arrive, customer contacted us on say the 20th and we updated the tracking. The Amazon order extract now shows the 20th as day shipped (though original date shows in front end)

Could this be a technical error that has flagged these orders and we now have 14 orders showing as shipped after we originally shipped them?

Has anyone else had this issue?

Thanks in advance

Hey everyone,

We haven't received any payments from our Amazon UK Seller Account since 14/05/2023, and now we've got over 10K GBP just sitting there. This money is really important for us to keep things running smoothly.

Our account is in good standing—no flags, no violations, no outstanding claims or chargebacks. Our account health is great, and we've never had any A-Z claims opened against us.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Any tips on how to get this sorted quickly? We're desperate to get this resolved and would really appreciate any advice or guidance.

Thank you for your comments!

I kid you not, item delivered at 11:32 this morning, buyer filed an AtoZ claim at 12:01, I refunded seconds later, AtoZ granted against me?!

Amazon = incompetence personified.

I am trying to understand the following issue, where a secondary marketplace does not generate any listings statuses or issues when price is updated.

The Issue:

I created a standalone listing in the UK marketplace. to get the listings status I sent a get request`GET /listings/2021-08-01/items/{sellerId}/{sku}` which worked fine and returned the listing status. Please check listings api.

Similarly, when I created another standalone listing in another marketplace, France, `GET /listings/2021-08-01/items/{sellerId}/{sku}` worked fine and returned the listing status.

Now

Let's say you want to create a listing in the UK and don’t want to create the same one in France. Amazon provides an option where you can edit the listing to add an additional marketplace (e.g., France).

To do that:

Hit the edit button on the listing created in the UK.

A new screen shows up, allowing you to add a new marketplace (France).

Once added, the same listing previously created in the UK will show up in France marketplace.

After this, if you go to UK marketplace and you update the price or the listing, sending a get request `GET /listings/2021-08-01/items/{sellerId}/{sku}` will return a response indicating that a listing has been updated in the UK marketplace and nothing for France. However, if you update the price of same listing for France marketplace (which is the only value you can update; you can’t update the title or any other attribute), you receive nothing for both marketplaces.

Please check the following screenshot (for UK)

Please check the following screenshot (France)

Thanks for the offer but we are very wary now with setting up partnerships with anybody else. We've placed all markets on holiday mode and deleted all listings from all 14 markets!

Hi, I am letting people know that Amazon have changed their policy on Royal mail 2D Bar codes i.e Royal Mail scanned on delivery. Sometime ago I raised this with Amazon that all our packages have "valid tracking" but Royal mail only scan about 80% and was told not to worry as Amazon are aware and will disregard if when needed we provide valid tracking proof. ie we sent them copies of the delivery label. Well that has changed. Last Friday some listings were deactivated and I had to provide the appeal which I did as usual, but this time it was turned down After a long conversation the result was we either change to a different post method (which would add about £1.00 to the cost and on cheap items that is a big percentage) or buy the same service from Amazon!

I am uncertain what the motive behind this is, to be competitive we will need to buy postage from Amazon? What I tried to explain is that as far as the customer is concerned there will be no improvement Royal mail will continue to fail scanning packages. In addition as we use 3rd party software to process all orders, will it be more difficult? Will Amazon then get details of my orders from Ebay and our own website? I think this stinks and anyone using Royal Mail 24 / 48 (CRL) should take note. Short term we will change to Royal Mail Tracked and accept less orders, longer terms we may have to buy shipping from Amazon, but before we do we need to consider the pros and cons

Once again they take advantage of 3rd party sellers.

Amazon have also held my money back, despite

1. All items are shipped by FBA so any problems are Amazons and not mine.

2. They hold around 2 months supply of my stock.

3. They have valid credit card in place (and an alternative card)

4. They are still holding a month's business account sales for 31 days before releasing

5. The business sellers sales which were released after 31 days are now being held for another 7 days.

6. I've been selling on Amazon for 18 years have 100% feedback and unblemished record.