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Very hard to successfully do this, basically have to commit to going full stealth with a different company, owners, emails, bank accounts, IPs ect.
by robryan 8y ago
Very hard to successfully do this, basically have to commit to going full stealth with a different company, owners, emails, bank accounts, IPs ect.
- baybal2 8y ago9 times out of 10, they seem to don't mind. I know no Amazon vendor in China that doesn't deal with random closures by just reopening the account, and often with the same credentials.
- bitL 8y agoThat's a really bad advice for US residents. Maybe their flagging ML system doesn't work well on random Chinese addresses, but with US history they pretty much either prevent a creation of a new account in any way associated with an old banned account, immediately flag it for a review requiring extensive internal company documentation/proofs or remove it in regular (quarterly?) sweeps when they kick bunches of sellers from their platform. "Funny" thing is their anomaly detection algorithms are really bad and they tend to keep counterfeit sellers while kicking out genuine ones more often with no way to appeal in a reasonable fashion, i.e. paying some external company with individual ties to Amazon managers to reinstate sellers... Complete mafia around selling on that badly designed platform.
- baybal2 8y agoMy hypothesis is that they intentionally disabled or relaxed fuzzy string match based ban lists in China. It is common knowledge that you have much better chance to re-register without any trickery in a big city, than in a small one. Imagine, you have few hundreds Liu Chens running some undescript Zhongguo Electronics in every megacity, and very likely all having addresses like "Northern/Western/Eastern Industrial Park Zone 123" – add some fuzzy logic here and you have a recipe for disaster.