Doesnât this open him up to various civil suits?
Potentially yes.
From whom?
Thatâs not going to happen. The demographic that he serves is precisely the segment of the population that would view the $100K fine as a âcost of doing businessâ, as what I saw when I attended their day of presentations was a group dedicated to finding ways âaroundâ the Amazon TOS and rules, rather than one trying to learn how to comply with the rules. So, the issue of âsuspensionâ and âreinstatementâ was viewed as a mere pothole on the racetrack, not a barrier to avoid crashing into.
If he failed to gain a reinstatement, then the seller-schemer would simply have to start over with a new ID, most often accomplished by renting someone elseâs ID, or defrauding an employee into using their own ID to set up the account.
So, to quote Obi-Wan, âYou will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautiousâ
NB: Yes, I have a photo in my profile, and its not hard to find me, as I have lived at River House for years, but I was not stupid - I was âmade upâ by a makeup artist to look distinctly different when I attended the âconferenceâ, even to the point of being a different height for the day. I looked nothing like me.
Those who did not obtain a desired result from services offered, even if the outcome was positive. You know, the same kind of individuals who act like the felon at the topic of this conversation.
From the people who he attacked, or helped attack as well as those who he helped and now have a black mark on their account because of Ed touching their account.
Sadly, the lack of transparency in Amazon would make proving you were harmed by Ed, and not just Amazon being Amazon, or PRC being PRC.
Just read the DOJ press release: Brooklyn, NY, consultant for Amazon sellers sentenced to home detention and fine for role in bribery scheme (Friday, July 14, 2023).
This was an interesting use of present tense. 
The case is being investigated by the FBI, with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), and the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs.
And some scathing comments from various officials involvedâŠ
At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones noted that [Ed] Rosenberg [of ASGTG] âparticipated in the scheme for a period of three years. You stopped because you got caught by law enforcement.â
said Acting U.S. Attorney Gorman. âAfter first attacking the federal indictment brought in this case, Mr. Rosenberg has now admitted his crimes and has publicized his regret about his criminal conduct as a warning to others who scheme to illegally manipulate the marketplace.â
In her sentencing memo, Assistant United States Attorney Miriam Hinman wrote, âRosenberg committed a serious crime when he corrupted Amazon employees, stole from Amazon, and gained access to internal systems and controlsâall to the disadvantage of Amazon, small businesses, and consumers. âŠThey stole Amazonâs confidential information to line their own pockets⊠These activities resulted in deceiving customers and unfairly disadvantaging small businesses that followed the rules.â
United States v. Rosenberg
Sentencing Memorandum â Document #193
District Court, W.D. Washington
Docket Number: 2:20-cr-00151
Citation: United States v. Rosenberg, 2:20-cr-00151, (W.D. Wash. Jul 07, 2023) ECF No. 193
Date Filed: July 7th, 2023, 2:15 p.m. PDT
Uploaded: July 10th, 2023
EXCERPT:
Wait⊠he PAID someone else to do his forgery for him? He did not just hire a kid and sit him down with photoshop or whatever?
That would be getting his hands dirty.
Ed is kinda back in the news, Referenced here:
Here is a novel idea. Just show sellers what they got caught doing so they can address it or perma ban them and make the information inaccessable to all but those with the ability to fix it who have access logs. Kind of like when cops run license plates, address, and name/DOB info.
I think part of the problem here is the wide âdriftâ during any 24-hour period between various âimagesâ of their dataset. They donât seem to have a database that locks a record before writing, and then unlocks only when the write is done, and then REPLICATES the change out to all the other datacenters with redundant copies.
In simpler terms, the âcatalogâ does not have the kind of data integrity that every ATM on the planet shares, so your bank balance is always updated in real time. This is why stuff âchanges backâ sometimes, and fixes donât âstickâ, and why changes take â24 hours to appearâ. The catalog is essential a never-ending batch job, and the LAST person to touch a record does not always âwinâ, as there seem to be constant race conditions.
To summarize the simplification, they canât have security unless they first have data integrity, and that seems to be a train that has left the station long ago, and cannot be caught.
Just my personal opinion.
That CNBC article is so depressing, but Iâm certain that it offers insight into why the NSFE doesnât have PMs.
There is a (different) current Amazon âconsultantâ who was banned from the OSFE and who has claimed that the lack of PMs on the NSFE was due to her (unfounded) complaints of (alleged) bullying*âbut lol NO, thatâs not at all how Amazon operates. Amazon operates to protect its own self-interest with The Big Guys. She is not A Big Guy, but lawyers and law enforcement agencies are.
Giving criminals a platform for advertising, coordinating, and providing services of illegal acts such as fraud, bribery, and theft of Amazonâs IP would make Amazon culpable and liable.
And naturally, Amazon couldnât figure out how to separate the wheat from the chaff and so threw out the baby, tooâŠto mix metaphors.
But back to EdâŠmy guess is that his kinds of customers (who themselves use black hat tactics while claiming innocence and victimhood) are finding new service providers who are NOT under the watchful eye of the DOJ. Plus, Ed has admitted his wrongdoing; one might assume that he does not intend to engage in the same wrongdoing moving forward.
*FULL DISCLOSURE: She has used her multiple platforms as a wanna-be Amazon âinfluencerâ/public figure to claim that I was one of the OSFE users who âbulliedâ her. In fact, I never bullied her, in public posts or in PMs. I did disagree with her, and I called her out for misinformation, deceptive and disruptive (prohibited) OSFE behaviors, and advocating for black hat seller tactics. 
She does have onlyfansâŠI cracked up so hard when I saw that 
Selling only fans this time of year in the northern hemisphere is a good business, but why only fans? Does Amazon not allow the sale of window air conditioners?
Has to be the case. since record locking is impossible on a distributed database and thatâs why zombie or ghost product offers exist.