Amazon OA sellers lose accounts with no warning or appeal path
OA sellers face significant anxiety around account stability and sudden suspensions (Section 3s), leading to fear of lost investment. There's also a lack of transparency regarding the high costs and workflows employed by successful sellers, creating uncertainty and pressure to spend heavily. The manual processes of the past have been replaced by a new, risky system.
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“For a few years I've only had a single listing on my account, which were for a pair of decorative cat ears (pictured). I've sold quite a lot of them and were happy with the steady sales I was making. Just the other day I…”
“Are you just 'networking' on line? You also need to be able to identify who the real wholesalers are vs the IG kids.”
“Just out of curiosity, where do you invest? We have closed around 30 deals (some with wholesalers), but they still send me mostly duds. We ended up just finding our own deals.”
“You're right in that being the affordable option is a race to the bottom, but there are many fewer projects at the top. You'll need excellent proof points, and a strong referral system to stay at the top.”
“If you have enough time to research it before you throw your money at it.. sure, can happen. But if you take "it moved once, so it will move again" as a strategy, it will fail about 99% of the time. If you want to know why it went up... google "GoPro Markiplier". If you wanted to buy in, without knowing the reason... work on your gambling habit.”
“I have multiple ECs that look kinda unrealistic, but they actually are real. I know that AOs usually take stuff at face value, but just to be safe, do they also Google me to make sure? I don't show up if only my name is Googled because I share a full name with a celebrity, but if "my name + org name(s)" is Googled, there are links to all my claims and the AI overview corroborates it. submitted by /u/LeadingCarpet3775 [link] [comments]”
“I have a pending AOS since May 2026 and every day I keep overthinking and I just remembered in 2022 I sold one of my old dressed on Depop ($60), but then I deleted the app. I didn’t even remember this until now, but is that considered unauthorized work? Honestly freaking out a bit submitted by /u/Obvious_Star_721 [link] [comments]”
“Clarity is good! There are some alternatives but they cost more and didn't really do more. If you don't have that yet, that's the very next step!”
“$70k is enough that I'd be more worried about protecting the downside than finding the “perfect” private-label product. I wouldn't commit anywhere close to the full amount to inventory on the first go. I'd validate demand with a smaller order, get the unit economics right including shipping, returns and ad costs, then scale inventory once the numbers are actually repeatable. Private label can still work, but the hard part isn't putting your logo on something anymore, it's hav”
Ima cold dm those who listed in all of those. Thanks for sharing.
“If you're afraid of over-investing in crap, just look for deals that are obviously worth it based on what you see. Most resellers I know do arbitrage reselling like this. For me, there's a niche fighting controller I like that sells for a lot but is frequently listed well under market value. I just buy those and flip them since no one else is. You can also source a few hundred bucks in tools direct from local suppliers, with good discounts at certain times of the year. Other commenter ta”
“I definitely didn’t pay that much but I understand your criticisms. I’m not necessarily defending it, just offering a balanced perspective. I don’t think it can be formally called a scam because it is legit, but the way he sells it is a little scam-esque in my opinion.”
“Congrats. Before adding a lot more products, use the first order as a full checkout audit. Confirm where the buyer came from, what page they entered on, which product or collection pages they viewed, and whether any questions came in before purchase. Then place a test order yourself on mobile and check shipping rates, taxes, confirmation email, tracking, and the post-purchase experience. That will tell you more than filling every category immediately. I'd also fix the shared link—the one in”
“I do that for one of my e-commerce clients. Basically, there are two ways to do this: one free and one paid. The free way is to use Google Sheets + a simple script that periodically checks product pages and logs price changes. It works fine for a small catalog, but gets fragile once sites change layouts or start blocking requests. The second option is to use a scraper. I currently use E-commerce Scraping Tool (Apify). You can schedule it to scrape competitor products automatically and track pric”
“Okay I see your point... I am not going to argue on this I read the post myself I can see there are places where people might get confused... My bad thanks for pointing it out, will be mindful next time...”
“Good for you... You could have been helpful instead of criticizing my post..You understood the post so I think punctuation mark comment is irrelevant... But if you have meaningful insights I would love to hear them, you can be sarcastic or criticize me while doing that which I ll not take offense on...”
“the empty listings thing is a fair point tbh, kinda undermines the whole verified angle”
“Agreed with other commenters, IP and email checks aren't hard to get around these days. Full disclosure, I work at Incognia. To prevent fake accounts, we rely on a mix of things: persistent device ID, device integrity, links between devices and accounts, and precise location behavior are some of the big ones. Combining these together gives you a better shot at spotting repeat abusers even when they switch accounts or devices.”
“At least form an LLC to protect yourself a bit. But you're selling a consumer good so you have to collect and remit taxes. You don't need to trademark anything but you can't violate existing trademarks.”
“I'm more concerned about the vendor telling you this information. I recommend you do your own research and make your own enquiries. As a rule of thumb, I never rely on what anyone tells me. I've seen too many law firms do this and end up regretting it.”
“Biggest lever at your stage: talk to the people who are visiting. Even informal like DMs, a quick survey, or asking anyone who almost bought why they didn't. That'll tell you more than any ad platform will right now.”
“I don't know nothing about Regalis specifically but man reading your post hit me hard. I was where you are about two years ago. Running three businesses, thought I was smart paying someone else to find me the fourth. I don't want to scare you but I don't want to stay quiet either. The firm I used they weren't flat fee, they were commission but the burnout you are describing? That doesn't go away just because you outsource the search. If anything, I found myself obsessing even”
“you aren’t wrong. Often you can find products direct from the manufacturer with free shipping for less than Amazon, and I’ll pay upwards of 10% more on a product to not support Bezos”
“That’s the whole point of them being bought out. I personally think this is a move about control knowing how the world works.”
“I'd say that uncensored/ablated/heretic models and RP finetunes are under the biggest risk. Far too many times we have seen investors buying large content platforms and then eradicating anything adult-themed.”
“This is basically the entrepreneur version of “I used to do 100 push ups in a day. Turns out doing one bench press with $100k on it is easier.” 😂 Less volume, bigger problems, fewer headaches.”
“At the 169 plus cost of those things I went with Ava go + and their 10 year warranty. If I did this for a living I would have chosen something else”
“you right. buyers pay for solutions to their problems, not for the process of making them.”
“What challenges have you encountered in terms of financing and what solutions have you found?”
“yeah the grandfathering one gets me every time. pricing feels reversible right up until real people are relying on the old number. I've started treating anything that touches existing customers as a one way door even when technically it isn't.”
“do you actually have something flagging that automatically now or is it still on you to check? curious what you rigged up”
“The margin side sounds useful, but I'd be particularly interested in how you handle products where the "margin" looks healthy until rebates, promo discounts, shipping and other trade costs get layered in. That's usually where the spreadsheet gets ugly. I'd also make the audit show the assumptions behind the result, because that's the part I'd want to sanity-check before using it for a real pricing decision. If the tool can make those inputs easy to change, that woul”
Thanks for sharing. We all are in the same boat it seems :)
“ok so pricing -- keep selling them. You've done 47 bracelets. Once you reach 50 bracelets, raise the price by 2$ And keep doing that for every 50 bracelets that you sell. Once you start feeling the friction of the price increases (people not willing to pay), then you know you've found your upper limit, so go back to the last price that was getting you sales. That's how you figure out pricing. Regarding taxes, yeah you do have to file taxes, you report it as personal income. Just tell”
“Yes that's what arbitrage is in this context. There's ways to do it automatically”
“You're not actually stuck on logistics, you're stuck on fear of the mess. Those are different problems. The knowledge in this guy's head isn't as irreplaceable as it feels right now — you know most of it too, you've just been avoiding writing it down because doing that makes the decision feel real and final. Practical way through it: spend a couple weeks quietly mapping what's actually only in his head — client relationships, workflows, whatever. Start getting other peopl”
“Running a handful of small accounts too, and this exact thing used to wreck me. The honest answer is that I stopped trusting the "just wait two weeks" advice as a blanket rule and started paying attention to what the campaign was actually doing with its impressions. If it's getting clicks and those clicks look like the right people (reasonable time on site, low bounce, whatever signals you have), I'll sit on my hands longer. If it's burning through budget on garbage placeme”
“currently, i am doing solely just OA, and i have a good sales history with an account health of 222. i haven't been able to get ungated for any bigger brands in order to branch out, and just needed help on how and where to get invoices (wholesalers???), and if i were to source products from retail stores, how can i get invoices from retail stores rather than just receipts (if that is how ungating works). i just need overall guidance upon how to get ungated in more brands so i can scale even”
“it's not overkill if your aov is high enough to cover the monthly fee. but if you sell $10 items, algolia is gonna eat your lunch.”
“I don't have experience in this particular space, but forever seems like a long time. Even if you titrate over a decade, that's still a lot of commission for a one-time action.”