I got a full-color glossy postcard in the mail today:
WE WANT TO BUY YOUR AMAZON SELLER ACCOUNT!
Get a cash offer of $1,000-$2,000 and up within 24 hours.
*Our records indicate that your account is inactive or has very little activity.
OK, sales have been slow, but they’re not that slow. And how the fuq did these people get my name and access to my account activity?
No, I’m not selling, but I’m pretty pissed that my account details are so easily hacked.
btw they’re sellyouramazonstore dot com
You can’t “sell” it anyway, so do these scammers even know how much of a headache that would be, unless they figured out something we don’t know.
happens more often than you know.
Oh, I’m sure it does…but buying an account doesn’t change all the back-end information.
We got a postcard like that a couple years back …
We changed our password to be on the safe side.
We would note that this came via the mail and the address for the business is on the customer facing “About Seller” page. Amazon wouldn’t have to be hacked for your Amazon business address to be exploited in this way.
As noted by @Lost_My_Marbles anyone can find your contact information by clicking on your store name on Amazon.
As to sales data, they don’t have a clue. All they do is flood the postal system with cards and a percentage will have slow to nonexistent sales – probably something in the area of 20% since the ‘average’ account sales number is pretty low to begin with.
It’s a numbers game. Make enough contacts and you find a prospect. Get enough prospects and you get a customer. Back in the day my sales manager made us make 20 contacts a day which was actually talking to someone on the phone. Now you flood the internet and call it ‘progress’.
Nobody has ever tried to buy my account. My feelings are hurt.
Or if you post on the NSFE…
If that contact information is a your name and home address.
Then there are those that take it to another level. Which is sad. And
twisted
Nobody wants a Wyoming LLC
Except Pakistan Virtual Assistants
contact @meredithbead above to getcha you a grand…
Seriously, doing the numbers…
USPS Bulk Mail rates (per google) is around 20¢, plus you have the cost of the full 4C postcard, (Maybe printed in China?). That is 25¢. In Bulk I am guessing here. So a 5,000 mailing without the address is $1000 to $2000
Where to get the addresses. Well probably on some blackmarket. Must be a team of Chinese that are paid to find Sellers, and info, then sell to the market a list of names - 5,000 names for $200? More, or less? I am clueless. But those names can be sold over and over.
Then you convert 5 of the 5k, and pay $1k, and your time to convert, and your costs are $7k
Sell those 5 for $10k each, and you are in business.
Whatever the numbers, it is all just a business
Yes, sleezy and not to our communities benefit, as it harms Amazon.
The best thing to do, would be to send to Amazon Corp. Anonymously or not.
But then again, are they not already aware?
Do I need a color printer to make the money? Asking for a friend.
You just send @HobbesIsMyTiger that contact info, the postcard folks will be happy to hear from them. You could of course charge a small fee for the service… 
Back before everything went digital the brokerage office I started at had a “City Directory” for Milwaukee and surrounding area. It was about a foot thick, hundreds of pages, and, tons of information about every resident.
Name, address, phone number. Everyone started prospecting at “A” and worked back. I started at the back and odd letters – Z, X, Q and so on. Developed a few good clients from the “Q” area. Seems no one bothered to call those at the back of the book. Eventually I was even able to pronounce a whole bunch of the Polish names when I called. I could even spell some of them eventually. Helped that one of my college roommates Freshman year was Wroblewski (ra -blur - ski).
Then, when they sent me out to the ‘burbs’ to run an office I could buy lists of tax records – address, owner, assessed value and so on. Had to find phone numbers but not everyone was cell phone savvy back then.
Later you could buy a data base on disk with even more information.
Since nothing gets thrown out around here (my really bad habit) I still have a lot of that info laying around someplace. MOST of those folks have likely relocated to a cemetery someplace.
So there is still a chance the post card can still be delivered if they did a forward !
Why else would the PO have a Dead Letter Office??? 
Or someone in Amazon middle management who read the news that Andy wants to eliminate their position. 
They’re offering “too much”.
I’ll gladly sell my account for 21 easy payments.
First payment is $2. Double the amount each payment.
Careful, didn’t you see the asterisk stating “restrictions apply?”
