1. Why are Amazon accounts linked?
A seller can only register one account on Amazon. You may not operate or maintain multiple seller accounts. Amazon can detect all sellers’ backend operations. If Amazon’s algorithm believes that several accounts are operated by the same person, then these accounts will be deemed to be related to each other by Amazon. This is usually detected automatically by the system.
In order to focus on the sellers’ shopping experience, Amazon prevents sellers from repeatedly selling the same products. (Amazon's rules tend to allow the same product to appear only once on the platform. In fact, follow-selling is based on this concept. In order to ensure fair competition among sellers and provide customers with the best quality products, Amazon's pages do not emphasize the concept of stores, but focus on products. In other words, "commodities are more important than stores." There may be multiple sellers on the same product details page.)
2. What are the consequences of account association?
• There is no big problem with association itself, but if multiple Amazon accounts are associated and one of them has a problem, it will affect other associated accounts. Avoiding association can reduce the risk.
• If it is associated with the same site, if Amazon finds that your products are cross-sold and the same products are sold, Amazon will require you to forcibly delete one of the accounts and all the listings. If you do not delete them, Amazon may close both of your accounts.
• Amazon has a policy that the reason for closing your account is that the existing account is linked to a closed account.
3. What is the basic idea of avoiding association?
If you want to operate multiple accounts, you must make Amazon think that these accounts are owned and operated by different people.
4. What are the determining factors of association?
• Operation end: MAC address of network card, browser cookies, Flash objects, hard disk information (obtained through plug-ins) --- Do not operate multiple accounts (hosts) on the same computer at the same time
• Network side: Router MAC address, external IP address --- Do not operate multiple accounts at the same time under the same external IP environment
• Account information: credit card, payment method information, phone number, email address, registration address --- if registering multiple accounts, any unique private information must not be the same
It is best to log in to an account only on a fixed and clean computer. The connected router and modem must also be clean. In addition, this network environment is only used for operations on this Amazon account. At the same time, the email address bound to the account is only logged in on this computer. In short, the best result is to keep the different information between each account as different as possible.
5. Will different sites be linked? (For example, the US and UK sites)
There will be a correlation, but if there is a problem with one site, it is rare for the other account to have problems as well (because Amazon originally supports sellers to open stores on various sites and sell products in various regions). Many customers who have had related experience said that there is no problem, including ourselves. I used the same network cable and the same computer to operate the US site and the UK site (they are definitely related). The UK site was blocked due to infringement, but the US site is still thriving, haha. but! There have been cases where two sites had their sales permissions removed at the same time, so everyone should be cautious and make their own judgment.
