As for the association, the main reason is that Amazon seller rules do not allow sellers to open multiple stores. However, if you use different companies and different computers to register, you can open multiple stores without any problem. The simplest thing here is the computer, which is the most important factor, because the IP will change frequently according to the dial-up of the router. Generally speaking, the telecommunications IP is not fixed, but there are cookies in the computer. You can avoid association by changing the browser or reinstalling the system. You can also use VPS. If you are a GEEK-level person, then you can continue to read on and replace all of them.
The first item on the “prohibited seller behaviors” published by Amazon on its official website is “using multiple seller accounts.” This means that once Amazon confirms that a seller has multiple accounts without a reasonable reason, it will block these accounts.
Determinants of association
1. Account Information
1. Registration Information
Name, email address (no rules), registration address (return address), phone number, credit card, password, etc. cannot be the same. If you register multiple accounts, any unique private information must not be the same.
2. Amazon FBA shipping information association: address, phone number and contact person must be different for each account
3. Receiving account
Whether you use a US bank card, worldfirst or p card, the card numbers must be different, but the names can be the same and there will be no association.
What if there are not so many payment accounts? Three solutions:
Ask relatives and friends to open it.
P card: Generally, there is no problem in applying for two P cards with different card numbers with one ID card. If you want to open more than one, you need to contact their account manager.
Now worldfirst can also be registered by individuals. The p-card account of the same person's worldfirst account can be used on different Amazon accounts without any association.
The following situations are not related
Credit card registrations with the same name, different address, and different mobile phone numbers are not associated
The same set of information is used to register sites in various countries. They are 100% linked, but permitted, unless one of the accounts is blocked.
2. Network
Router MAC address, external IP address - Do not operate multiple accounts at the same time under the same external IP environment
1. Router MAC address
How to check the MAC address of the router? Enter the router backend, the MAC displayed in the MAC address clone is the router MAC
Countermeasure: Use dial-up directly or change the route (mac address cloning is not recommended)
Case: The company had an account compromised in this regard. The process was as follows: Account A was registered on the router, but the application was not completely successful. Later, we gave up A and successfully applied for Account B. Later, for some reason, A also successfully applied.
2. IP address
Non-dedicated broadband all have dynamic IPs. Restarting the router can switch the IP, but even if you don't restart, your network's external IP will be different every day or even every few hours. You can use www.ip138.com to check it.
So, here comes the question: If the Amazon account of the office next door dies, will mine die too?
The answer is that if this factor is the only factor involved, the account will not be blocked, because Amazon's association technology is based on multiple factors.
3. Operation terminal
Network card MAC address, 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
1. Network card
Are the mac addresses the same? View method: Start-Run-Enter cmd-Enter arp -a
Countermeasure: Replace the network card (MAC address modifier is not recommended)
Note: For the same computer, if the account corresponding to the previous network card has infringed, you can add a network card, but you must disable all other network adapters.
2. Router
How to check the MAC address of the router? Enter the router backend, the MAC displayed in the MAC address clone is the router MAC
Countermeasure: Use dial-up directly or change the route (mac address cloning is not recommended)
Case: The company had an account compromised in this regard. The process was as follows: Account A was registered on the router, but the application was not completely successful. Later, we gave up A and successfully applied for Account B. Later, for some reason, A also successfully applied.
3. Browser cookies
A cookie is a simple text file placed on your hard disk by a web server when you browse a website. It can record information such as your user ID, password, web pages you browsed, and the time you stayed there.
Case: Use the cookie of account A to run a program on the special Internet server of account B, and the cookie of account B is also the program that has been run on its special Internet server. On the night we discovered this, we replaced the special Internet server of account B, but it did not die. Therefore, it is verified here again that the association is determined by multiple factors. If one factor is associated, Amazon will not warn you unless it is very sure.
4. Email pictures or flash
In the email, if you load an image or flash object, your IP address can be read. The key is that these images or flash are sometimes so small that you can't notice them.
There are two solutions to this problem:
a. Use Gmail's disable mail loading feature.
b. Only look at the title of the email. If you want to see the detailed content, go to the Amazon backend
5. Browser fingerprinting
Amazon can collect harmless data about your browser through JS, such as plug-ins, system fonts, operating system version, typing style, typing speed, etc.
Individually, these data cannot identify you, but when combined, they form a digital fingerprint that can be used to determine whether the operation is performed by the same person, just as we can find a person through a fingerprint.
Here are two small examples around browsers:
Case 1: There are two accounts, and the hardware and network of these two accounts are independent. However, the computers where accounts A and B are located have used the same program to capture Amazon's page data. Finally the two accounts are linked.
Case 2: The customer service reply templates used to be the same and had no connection, but for security reasons, we later modified them to different templates. This case illustrates that we should try to ensure that the data transmitted to Amazon through the browser is different.
4. Store Products
1. The brands are not related, but more than 20% of the products of the two stores are related.
2. Image association: product image name, image shooting angle, different stores should have different
3. Description relevance: title description, detailed description. Many sellers are lazy and basically copy the previous store. Must be rewritten.
4. Do not use the closed store’s trademarks or company or personal credit card address information.
5. Product Identification: The products on multiple stores are almost 100% the same. This is unsafe. It is recommended to operate in different locations. Some products are different.
6. Brand registration association: The contact information of each registered website must completely correspond to the trademark registration and Amazon backend store information. This can not only increase the success rate of registration but also avoid association. (Except for brand authorization)
7. Store product information: The duplication of product information between stores should not exceed 30%.
How to prevent Amazon from being associated?
1. Make Amazon think that multiple accounts are operated by different people in different places.
2. Achieve "ten new things": new email, new computer, new system, new browser, new router, new broadband, new mobile phone number, new credit card, new payment account and new products.
3. Association is determined based on multiple factors. If a single factor is the same, there may be no association. However, if multiple suspected factors are the same, it is more dangerous. Try to reduce the association factors as much as possible.
In short, 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, and this network environment is only used for operations of 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.
Imagine what it would be like if , QQ, Wangwang, MSN, Momo, UC and other chat tools were integrated into the same interface and could be switched at will?
Similarly, what would it be like if a system could be developed that allows multiple Amazon accounts and different sites, or even different platforms such as eBay and Walmart, to be operated on the same computer without being linked, and different platforms can be managed under the same background interface!
