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I have had zero violations on my account. I built this business by myself over 4-5 years and it has become my main source of income - so this is quite depressing.

Amazon requested me to send them documents proving I'm a UK established business that pays VAT. They never formally rejected my documents - they just kept spamming the same performance notification asking me for the same information over and over again.

About 3 weeks in, and after having about 3 phone calls with account health, it turned out that the address they wanted me to prove was my OPERATING address instead of REGISTERED address. I gathered as much evidence as I could since then (utility bills, commercial invoices etc). and sent it to them. Since then it has been a wild goose chase. I've had to send this information multiple times too, and to multiple email addresses (all of this under the advice of account health).

It has been 6 weeks since I sent the last bit of information they asked for and I have had no response. I have lost over £150K worth of sales and paid over £15K in storage fees in these 3 months. Every time I call Account Health they tell me all I can do is wait. The more I wait, the more I lose in storage fees. They refuse to give me any rough estimate whatsoever on when this will be complete - I could still be waiting next year for all I know.

This has just an extremely stressful and depressing past few months. I did nothing to deserve this - this is just Amazon refusing to look at the documentation and reinstate my account at this point. This issue has been escalated twice in the last week. 5-6 days ago I received an e-mail from the "specialised team" it has been escalated to telling me I'll hear a response within 72 hours. They have not responded.

I'm not sure what to do at this point. Do I just accept that the accounts gone? I can make a new company, new seller account, and pay another £15K or so to get stuff removed from the Amazon warehouse but it's always in the back of my head that by the time this is all done my actual account will be reinstated by then. It's a frustrating dilemma. Really seems like Amazon is just torturing me at this point. Has anyone been through anything similar? Any advice?

Hello, i hope someone here can help me, ive come from Etsy where the process of listing items is so streamlined and user friendly, now we're listing on Amazon and the Add a Product interface is driving me insane. Im trying to list baby robes, the sizes we stock are

0-6 Months, 6-12 Months,12-18 Months and 18-24 Months

Now when i try to add variations through Amazon im stuck with 6 Months, 12 Months, etc, none of them are relevant to the size of the items im trying to sell. I can add a "Special Size" to the variation and edit my own custom size that way, however the original "Size" variation still remains on the listing and forces me to choose either the options above or "One Size" which is again irrelevant.

I know there is a way to achieve this as you can see with a similar listing here

Please if anyone could spare a moment to help me figure this out, it really shouldnt be this difficult Amazon!

Hello, This accounting yeat I have come close to the VAT threshold (including all Amazon "expenses" such as FBA fees).

These expenses come to almost £20K (roughly half of which are FBA fees {carriage, warehousing etc}).

Should I be including FBA fees when calculating my VAT taxable turnover?

Thanks

Never used to be much of an issue this, very occasionally I would get a message from a customer saying the item was late and they need a refund.

Over the last couple of weeks I am getting many messages asking me for a Refund as the item hasn't arrived on time and it is too late to be used. Almost always these messages come on the Expected Delivery date or the day afterwards. I am getting it all hours of the day and it is driving me mad.

I know Royal Mail can be slow but is there any kind of change in Amazon messaging which anyone is aware of which is driving this?

This is particularly impacting Letter Post sent by Royal Mail where there is no tracking.

This is different to the Item is Lost messages I get which I am used to (and still get!).

Is there any way to get in contact with seller support. My account is deactivated any there is no option to reactivate it. Any case log I create is closed in return. Is there an email or number I can call to get in contact with anyone from seller support?

Hi everyone,

I’m hoping someone can clarify this for me. I currently use Royal Mail 24 and Royal Mail 48 services to fulfill my Amazon orders. As you know, these aren’t fully tracked services, but they do provide delivery confirmation when the parcel is delivered (a barcode scan at delivery).

My question is — if I dispatch an order using Royal Mail 24/48 with delivery confirmation, and later a customer opens an A-Z Guarantee claim saying the item wasn’t received, how is this handled by Amazon’s system?

Since the decision process is largely automated (AI-based, not human-reviewed initially), and these services aren’t classed as ‘tracked’, would the AI still side with the customer even if I can provide the delivery confirmation scan?

Would appreciate hearing from other sellers who’ve been in this situation — or if there’s an official Amazon position on using services like Royal Mail 24/48 for fulfilling orders and how it affects A-Z claims.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Has anyone found a way to track the savings from shipping to the FC in the recommended pack groups? It isn't appearing on the savings tile as detailed in the help pages.

I have asked Seller Support but they didn't understand the question.

Is anyone experiencing the unknown charge on expenses in "other" section?

I got charged -$£2,747.05

Support could not assist. They transferred me to someone else and I havent heard back ever since. I also tried to request that funds but the link they provided to me for video interview does not work. Funds team said they will respond in 10 business days but it is been 2 months.

Unlike eBay, Amazon appears incapable of accurately classifying shaving equipment as not being deadly knife blades:

ASIN: B0BQ6R4VLT, Title: Gillette Mach3 Men's Razor + 12 Razor Blade Refills, 3 Blades for a Smooth Shave, Fits All Mach3 Handles

We received the email to say, “It is your obligation to ensure that the products you offer comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and Amazon’s policies.” As Gillette owns the listing, we are unable to edit it, so we followed the appeal process and explained to Amazon how shaving products should NOT be classified as dangerous knife blades.

Surprise, surprise, we LOST the appeal with a reply stating:

We have received your request for review of the following product(s) and, after careful consideration, have determined that the product(s) does not meet the necessary criteria and will be restricted post the grace period.

Why did this happen?

The product detail page for the ASINs indicated in the next paragraph is not compliant with our policies.

What actions do I need to take?

To reactivate your ASINs, remove the prohibited content indicated below from your product detail page or provide additional evidence of compliance:

ASIN: B0BQ6R4VLT

Recommended changes to be done: need to update the attribute customer_restriction_type populated with uk_18_knife.

As a final note, it seems if you are Amazon as the seller, then this policy does not affect you, only third-party sellers. This is yet another instance where Amazon fails to adhere to its own policies.