Should I care about the new "Unhealthy Stores" for stores that I never dealt with?

@HumbleWarrior thank you for posting this! It’s a great reminder for those of us who might skip the SC home page altogether to do a check in.

Please keep us updated on your progress. I personally would have lost my complete :poop: to see that.

FWIW, this is mine, which doesn’t have .mx or .br :hushed:, plus the explainer.

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I posted some of my thoughts on this here in the SAS yesterday (4Dec`23):

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Yep, the rot appears to be spreading, as evidenced by another NSFE discussion from earlier today:

“Unhealthly account in United Kingdom ( I dont sell there)” (link, NSFE)


Each and every fourth quarter, for years and years, Glitchmas Season piles up a new plate of :poop:

Confirmed

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Hi Dogtamer. Thanks for posting the link :slight_smile: Too bad I can’t access NSFE. Do you mind copy the responses of NSFE and paste them here. I would like to know whether it’s a glitch and what should be done (if anyone knows). Thanks

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I am happy to oblige, my friend.

Here’s the two posts to that thread (the OP’s is first):

At the time of this writing, this is the only reply:


I’ve seen a few other NSFE discussions today on the same topic, but I’ve yet to see any firm resolution, or even confirmation that it is in fact yet another aspect of the annual Glitchmas Season…

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Definitely Papy!

Thank you Dogtamer. Too bad, they don’t have the solution either. Today is Day2 of this Unhealthy store message. I wonder if I should contract Seller Support to have them look at it. Leaving it unhealthy makes me a bit nervous that Amazon would punish the healthy US stores :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

I just submitted a ticket with screenshot asking Seller Support whether this is a glitch and what should I do. Fingers crossed :crossed_fingers:

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How? I had Singapore (.sg) appear randomly, when we had not asked for any .sg account. The account does not really exist, of course, but it is listed as an “application”. To delete it, Amazon says that we must COMPLETE the application process (set up a bank account, give them a credit card number, and create an entity in Singapore with an address) and THEN we can ask them to delete it.

Not gonna do any of that, of course. But if you know how to get extraneous accounts deleted, please enlighten the rest of us.

I see the steps on how to get ASINs deleted overseas, and will try that, I’m talking about the account itself.

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The idea of any kind of unified account is mind boggling. The laws for doing business can vary vastly in different countries, and can change at any time.

Let’s take an extreme example, if the US goes to war with, or there’s massive sanctions that effectively stop business with a country, or something else happens that dramatically changes the business landscape with very little notice, it’s a huge mess to have these accounts intertwined.

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That’s ridiculous. It sounds like some Amazon employees need to meet the quota of convincing sellers to join the new marketplace.

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Seconded.

From all available lights illuminating that paradigm, it would appear that Amazon has already experienced that as a result of the Western World’s sanctions for the aggressor states in the latest (14th) Russo-Ukrainian War; in its typical single-minded approach, it further appears that Amazon may well be applying the same strictures upon 3P Sellers on both sides of that conflict.

There’s a reason why there have been so many scores of NSFE posts from Russia- , Belarus- , & Ukraine-based sellers having difficulty with the US INFORM Consumers Act compliance over the last six months or so.

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I wasn’t even thinking about it from a foreign seller’s perspective, but that’s a great point. If a Russian seller is selling in Mexico and the US, there’s no reason why their MX account should get suspended for failure to comply with the INFORM act, or because the US sanctions shut down their US Amazon store.

IP violations are another big thing. If you make a copy of a product (including branding) where the RO only has a registered trademark in the US, it would only be considered counterfeit in the US, but you can legally sell it in MX and CAN. Having those intertwined makes no sense and makes potential enforcement of the issue a mess.

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Are these steps to get offers deleted that are using your ASIN in other marketplaces?
If so, what are the parameters that need to be met? (example: registered brand)
And what is the process?

I see a few more Posts from folks having this show up. No replies or attention to any that I can see.

I’ve got a GREAT example - I sold to Ukraine and to Russia. Multiple dealers in both countries, multiple pallet level volume every year for both, happy beekeeper customers. (I sell to beekeepers, some of the nicest people around.)

But war comes, and I can’t sell to Russia any more. But I CAN sell to Belarus, who can sell to Russia, and beekeepers aren’t great soldiers, as they literally “wouldn’t hurt a fly”, so they don’t care about the politics. So, here we go… let’s play follow the pallet. 3 pallets go to Ukrainian dealer, who trucks 2 of the to Belarus, and gets paid by the Belarus dealer. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge Belarus would never need 2 pallets of product, they need maybe 1/4 pallet at most per year. But, everyone’s happy, save for the convoluted shipping arrangements.

But Amazon is a US company, and can’t send a single dime to Russia or anyone in Russia due to the Ukrainian war sanctions, same as everyone else.

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Yup.

Broaching the notion, in the OSFE, that last year’s arising of the “Import Designation-gating” phenomenon in the ‘improved’ STA Workflow was most-likely to prove attributable to that factor, first and foremost, found little favor - but best I can tell, it would appear that the signposts continue to point in that direction.

I struggle with so many of your posts, as you speak this language that is deceiving similar to English, but reads as pure gibberish. We need a lexicon!

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