Hello,

I’m writing to report a targeted, inauthentic review attack on my listing. Out of three total ratings, two are one‑star ratings with no comments and one is a 1‑star review from an account that has never reviewed any other product. All of these 1‑star ratings appeared within the same week, and I haven’t received any other 1‑star feedback besides these.

This is not the first occurrence: few months ago I experienced a similar wave of fake reviews, which Amazon kindly investigated and removed. The current attack is clearly orchestrated to harm my seller metrics and has already caused a noticeable drop in sales.

Could you please investigate and remove these inauthentic ratings under Amazon’s Community Guidelines? I appreciate your swift assistance in safeguarding the integrity of product feedback and my account performance.

This is my listing (ASIN: B0DK3WV3ZS ). Receiving a review on listing like this is very rare and takes much time but i received 1 star 3 reviews with in 5 days which is impossible.

All of our Ratings are 5 and 4 stars and they all have reviews while the new 1 stars have no reviews which proves the suspicion as customers have no problem with our product as seen in the reviews.

There are other suspicious matters like attacker accounts being new, the reviews being polar opposite of what the normal and Vine customers say, opting out of communication, a different name on the orders so I can't find the order ID to report etc.

Hello @Seller_z3k8APxGfbQEK,

I have done some deep digging. I have found their order ID and also found even more suspicious proof to declare that the 1 star are paid and inauthentic.

One of the 1 star rating was converted into a 1 star review.

This is the order ID: 205-3461931-4794712

Suspicious Points:

1. Bought on 25 Feb 2025

2. Gave 1 star rating at the time of wave of 1 star attack at the end of March 2025.

3. Converted it from a rating to a review after 3 months.

4. Instead of throwing the product or refunding it, the customer kept it. After 3 months, he now shows the pictures of the product in his reviews which looks nothing like the normal product and probably has been tampered with. This can be proved by looking at other customer reviews. One of the Vine Customer has also shared a video showcasing the product.

5. I tried to communicate with the customer and didn't receive a reply.

This evidence is more than enough to justify the review being fake.

Hi everyone,

At 1:50pm today, all of our listings suddenly became inactive. Our sales stopped completely and 6,237 units went into stranded inventory.

Six hours later, I’m still no closer to understanding what has happened. Despite spending hours on the phone and in chat with Seller Support, no one has been able to explain why all of our ASINs have been removed from the marketplace or offer a solution.

The latest case now states that the issue is related to account verification — but we have been selling on Amazon for 4 years with all documents long since provided and approved. We have received no email, no performance notification, and no Account Health flags. Our account still shows as "Healthy."

This has brought our business to a standstill. We have wages to pay, stock we’re still funding, and no way to sell. The lack of clear communication or urgency from Amazon is deeply concerning.

Is there any way to speak to someone who can genuinely help with urgent, business-critical matters like this? If any Amazon moderators or experienced sellers see this and can suggest a way to escalate, I would truly appreciate it.

Sue

Out of 4 years on Amazon I don't think I've seen a slower few past weeks.

I know everyone sells in different categories, but some of our lines has fallen off a cliff!

Is it just the bank holidays causing a slump?

I can see there is a locked thread 3 months ago with the same error I am getting, it seems there has been no resolution to the software issue.

I tried splitting my shipment into 4 groups to get a packing discount a couple of weeks ago - kept getting "1 Error- this item must be removed". Seller support were obviously no help - the usual, try a different browser etc. I gave up and packed it into one box as usual which worked fine, clearly no problem with my packed items. Annoying though, for the extra time I had spent separating the contents.

Last week I gave splitting the shipment another go and no problem at all.

Today I'm back to the same error - this item must be removed. Which item??? There is no clue. Again I have wasted time splitting the contents.

@Seller_XUNeUuvrQDpgPI can see you were looking into other cases a couple of months ago - any ideas?

Anybody else managed to solve this issue?