Getting Started | How Much Do You Know About Amazon Account Linking?

Getting Started | How Much Do You Know About Amazon Account Linking?
Amazon officially stipulates that a person or company can only have one Amazon account. If Amazon uses technical means to monitor and check various data and match related factors and finds that a seller has more than two Amazon accounts, these accounts will be judged to be linked accounts. You may want to know:
What are the factors that link accounts?
The determination of account association is based on a comprehensive determination of multiple factors. A single factor may not directly lead to a determination of association, but the high similarity of multiple factors will inevitably lead to the risk of being determined as an associated account.
1. Software
1) 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.
2) 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. These data alone cannot identify you, but when combined, they are a digital fingerprint that can be used to determine whether the operation is performed by the same person, just like we can find a person through a fingerprint. Let's talk about two small cases around browsers:
Case 1: There are two accounts, and the hardware and network of these two accounts are independent. However, the computers of account A and account B have used the same program to crawl 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 the templates to be different. This case illustrates that we should try to ensure that the data transmitted to Amazon through the browser is different.
3) 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 length of stay.
4) Email pictures or flash
If you load an image or flash object in an email, your IP address can be read. The key is that these images or flash objects are sometimes so small that you can't notice them. There are two solutions to this problem:
a. Use email's disable mail loading function.
b. Just look at the title of the email. If you want to see the detailed content, go to the Amazon backend.
5) Account information
Name, email address (no rules), address (return), phone number, credit card, password, etc. cannot be the same
6) 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.
2 Hardware
1) Network card
Question: For the same computer, the account corresponding to the previous network card has infringed my rights. Can I add another network card?
Answer: Yes, but you will need to disable all other network adapters.
2) Router
Case: The company had an account hacked in this regard. The process was as follows: Account A had registered on the router, but the application was not fully successful. Later, we gave up on Account A and successfully applied for Account B. Then, somehow, Account A also successfully applied. I want to swear that Account A had been maintained for half a year before it was blocked. It should have been blocked earlier.
3) Product
30:70 rule: old product data: new product data < 3:7. It is best not to put the same product on different accounts.
Common association cases
Case 1: If you accidentally log in to an account that was previously blocked due to copyright infringement, the existing account will definitely be blocked, and it may be blocked in more than 10 days. . .
Case 2: Information used in Account A: A and B registered a limited liability company, A is the legal person, B is the shareholder with 49%. Information used in Account B: Registered a sole proprietorship under B's identity. Registering for the European site will definitely be associated, but it is OK for the North American site.
Case 3: Using a VPS to log into an Amazon account on the same computer, and then using the same computer to log into another Amazon account (on the same site) after logging out of the VPS, there is a high possibility that the two accounts will be associated.
Case 4: The company's registered address has been used to register a personal account. Now the company registered with this address opens a global store, and the two accounts are likely to be associated because of the registered address.
Case 5: If you have logged into Amazon mailbox A with the same mobile phone before and now log into mailbox B, there will also be association risks. It is recommended not to do this. The account and registered mailbox cannot be logged in on the same device.
Case 6: If you accidentally log into your company's Amazon seller account on your phone using your home wifi, and want to apply for an Amazon account using your home network and computer, it is recommended that you do not use the network because there are already associated risks. As for the computer, if you have not logged into any Amazon account or email before, you can still use it.
In addition to these cases, there are some common related issues that I would like to share with you, hoping that they will be helpful to you.
Q: Please advise, if the customer service emails of multiple accounts are linked to different QQ emails, and multiple QQ emails are replied to by one customer service through different QQ emails on the same computer, will there be any problems? Answer: There is no problem at present. But it is not recommended. In the email, if you load pictures or flash objects, your IP address can be read. There are also nested codes in the am emails, and they will only be associated when several factors act at the same time. Q: Please advise, you said that different credit cards of the same person will not be linked, right? Answer: Different credit cards of the same person will not be associated as long as the mobile phone number and billing address are different. Q: One computer, multiple virtual machines, one network cable, mac is no problem, how to solve the IP? Manually assign IP? I want to ask, I have n virtual machines installed on my computer, each virtual machine has changed the mac address and is also equipped with an independent IP, but I can't change the root mac. Answer: There is no problem with the same computer with one network cable to remotely access multiple virtual machines. All virtual machines have independent IPs. Do you use your own computer as a virtual machine? It is not recommended to do this. Q: If the same person uses a credit card from another bank, a new billing address, a new mobile phone number, and a new email address, can he register a new account? Answer: Yes. Q: If one account is used on the same computer and he logs in to different networks frequently, will there be any problem? Answer: As long as you don't have other accounts on different networks, it's OK. Q: The problem is that the local machine can still find the local IP address when accessing the cloud server through VPN. Answer: Go to Alibaba Cloud to set up a virtual machine and operate the computer remotely, and you can't find your local IP address. Q: But you are using Alibaba Cloud, and others are also using it. If you encounter it, it will also die. However, it seems that someone else has used it and it died. I bought a new one and it ran into a dead ghost. I encountered such a thing. Answer: Yes, it is possible, but just the same IP address cannot explain the problem. If there is a correlation, there must be other factors. IP is just one of the correlation factors, such as your system, browser, font, etc. Q: Fonts are not related, right? It's mainly MAC address, cookies and flash objects. Have you done any experiments to see if fonts are really related? Answer: I can only say that fonts are also one of the factors, haha. Supplement: Font library is a big correlation factor. Q: In theory, am should not be able to determine the association from the bottom layer. For example, we all have Chinese operating systems and the default fonts are the same. How can it check you? A: Do you have other factors associated? Q: In addition, I have tested using a p-card to deposit money. Using a different name from the p-card, it can also be deposited. That is to say, the p-card only verifies the account number regardless of the cardholder's name? A: Yes. Q: I have asked that a person can have up to 3 different p-cards under the same name. A: That is the same name, but the ID number is different when people apply for a p-card, otherwise the second application with the same ID number will be rejected. A: The US or European collection accounts provided by Payoneer support receiving deposits from multiple alliance companies (such as multiple Amazon accounts or multiple Paypal accounts); secondly, if you are a company and need multiple accounts, please email [email protected] in advance. Reply: No way, I opened two p-cards with the same identity. Q: Do I need to log in to the p-card on a separate computer? A: No. Q: Can a virtual machine have a separate IP? Answer: Cloud servers all have fixed IPs. Q: Have you ever used splashtop? Answer: I haven't used splashtop. I only use the built-in remote desktop of Windows for remote operations. Is splashtop safe? Change the default port 3389 of the remote desktop, and the safety factor is very high. Q: To use teamviewer remotely, do I put all the hosts at home, then log in with the company's computer to operate one account, then log out and connect to the second host to operate the second account, and so on? Answer: Yes, both teamviewer and sunflower have been used to transfer from the server, and there are many problems. Remote desktop direct connection is safe + smooth. Q: I use 1m broadband + 1g memory + win2003 Alibaba Cloud, and 3 people can use it at the same time without any lag. Answer: Don't open multiple browser pages, 1G is barely enough, preferably 2G, there are few cases of logging in at the same time, and the basic operations are just a few pages, just browse and operate on the local machine. Q: Will remote desktop not expose your IP? Answer: No.
What are the consequences of account linking?
1. There is no big problem with associating accounts. Account association does not mean that the account will be restricted immediately. However, if one of the associated accounts has a problem and is restricted, other associated accounts may also be restricted. Therefore, avoiding account association can reduce risks.
2. If it is associated with the same site, if Amazon detects that you have cross-sold the same products between accounts, Amazon will send an email to warn you to choose to delete all listings on an account. If you ignore the warning, Amazon may forcibly close all associated accounts.
3. Amazon has a policy that the reason for closing your account is that the existing account is linked to a closed account. Therefore, Amazon account association usually leads to three results:
(1) If several accounts on the same site are linked and the products sold by the accounts overlap, the new account will generally be required to remove all listings;
(2) If several accounts on the same site are linked, and if the products sold by each account are different and the accounts perform well, then all of them may continue to survive;
(3) For any site, if one of the associated accounts has been closed, then the other accounts will also be closed, and the closure time is uncertain.
Does it sound scary to you? If you are not careful, all your previous efforts may go to waste! Don’t worry, as the saying goes, knowing yourself and knowing the enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. If we know how Amazon monitors associations, can we try to avoid it?
How to prevent account association?
1. Network connection: Each store is equipped with an independent broadband network cable or a computer with an independent wireless network card. It is not recommended to use the network of a store that has crashed. In addition to reinstalling the computer of a store that has crashed, it is best to replace the computer configuration if possible.
2. Registration information association: Each store must have unique registration information: company name, personal name, address, phone number, email address. Each store corresponds to a set of standard information.
3. Password association: The password for each Amazon store account must be different. Some careless sellers even use the same password for multiple accounts.
4. Amazon FBA shipping information association: the address, phone number and contact person must be different for each account, and many friends ignore this.
5. Picture association: product picture name and picture shooting angle should be different in different stores.
6. Description relevance: Title description, detailed description, many sellers are lazy and basically just copy the previous store. Must be rewritten.
7. Product model association: For example, if your company's products are all in the HKC001 series, and all stores use this model, and they are the same product with the same appearance, Amazon may review your store because of this issue.
8. Contact information: When you open a case with Amazon or ask Amazon to contact you by phone, be sure to leave the corresponding phone number and email address of Amazon, rather than the email address and phone number you are used to. (People often make this mistake unintentionally)
9. Try not to use cloud hosts to manage or log in multiple accounts: Amazon itself is an AWS company, so it is very easy to check multiple accounts. It is recommended to manage on a separate computer for the safest! Be careful!
10. Do not use the trademarks of defunct stores or company or personal credit card address information.
11. European KYC audit found connections: Review shareholder information and billing address information.
12. Product Identification Association: The products on the shelves of multiple stores are almost 100% identical. This is unsafe. It is recommended to operate them in a staggered manner so that some products are different.
13. Follow-selling association: Many sellers use small accounts to follow the big accounts, or follow each other, but in the face of increasingly strict Amazon rules, it is not recommended that your stores follow each other's sales. Follow-selling will not cause association, but the relationship between stores caused by follow-selling may be further reviewed by the Amazon system when you make a mistake.
14. Brand registration association: The contact information of each registered website must completely correspond to the trademark registration and Amazon backend store information, which can both increase the success rate of registration and avoid association. (Except for brand authorization)
15. Instruction manual correlation: Many friends do not print brand packaging for small-sized products because of low sales. The product packaging of multiple stores will be the same. At this time, the only thing that can be done is to make the product manuals different. This is also a factor to prove non-correlation!
16. **Software/**router association: When you log in to foreign websites such as FB, you need to **. When you log in to Amazon, you can exit ** to avoid accidental damage to Amazon stores.
How can I log in to 2 or more Amazon accounts on the same computer?
1. Whether you have one Amazon account or multiple Amazon accounts, it is recommended to use VPS remote desktop to log in and register Amazon accounts. Even if you use only one Amazon account for a router, you cannot ensure that your IP is independent and unchanged, nor can you ensure that the person who used your IP before operated Amazon. Open "Network and Sharing Center" and click "Connect" to view the IP address.

2. Click on the details to continue viewing

3. The IPv4 area shows your current IP address, which may be different every time.

4. The same computer can log in to multiple vps remote desktops. The vps remote desktop will automatically assign you a fixed IP address. Logging in through vps is equivalent to operating on a new computer and an independent IP address. Enter mstsc in the computer start menu and open "Remote Desktop Connection"

5. Enter the vps account in the computer name

6. Enter the vps account and password

7. Congratulations, you have logged into the remote desktop interface. When used normally, the remote desktop is equivalent to an application on your computer. You can add a new remote desktop in the same way. There will be no problem logging in to 10 Amazon accounts through 10 vps. All accounts are logged in on the remote virtual computer with independent IP.

Note:
1. There is no reminder for association on Amazon. No email notification, no customer service contacting you, no backend warning you. At this time, whether to associate or not depends on the seller's own judgment, and account association is irreversible.
2.Only one account can be logged in on the same computer, the same network, and the same platform
3. Credit card registrations with the same name, different addresses, and different mobile phone numbers are not associated
4. Different accounts, using the same E-mail address for delivery, will not be associated


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