Hopefully that will work.
On a related note, I found Xander_Amazon’s post here interesting as a possible workaround for cases transferred to this or that Black Hole of Calcutta infernal internal team (emphasis Xander’s):
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So, seriously, if the MODS are getting frustrated (as it sounds may be the case) and they start making waves with the unresponsive ‘teams’ who wins when it eventually hits the fan and becomes a modern day shoot out at the Amazon Corral?
I would love to be a fly on the wall (with suitable body armor) to witness those meetings.
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Having never participated in the Individual Selling Plan, my knowledge of its restrictions is limited to what I find in various of Amazon’s published policy pages, and what I’ve read about the experiences of 3P Sellers who have Individual accounts in various discussion venues - but I’ve never seen any mention of the restriction Connor_Amazon seemingly implies in this otherwise-informative 052025 post (emphasis mine):
I am unable to find any reference to such a limitation in Amazon’s SHC (“Seller Help Content”), and I’d guess it’s possible that Connor* is actually referring to the oft-proffered advice of there being little economic advantage of the Individual Plan if more than 40 sales per month occur, regularly - but I wonder if there are any SAS members, using that plan, who can confirm that such an apparently-undocumented restriction on how many Offer-Listings one can make per month is in place?
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Connor has been known to have a moment or two, as may be seen in this recently-closed SAS thread:
https://sellersasksellers.com/t/connor-amazon-is-having-a-moment/4949
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Never heard of the 40 listings per month restriction before either.
I woukd also question the fda qualifications not being scrambled in the down/up grades
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Vaguely remember seeing that, when you decide to go back to a Professional Account, it will trigger you to have to go through the verification process and that it is not a skate in the park.
An Amazon Individual Seller Account doesn’t have a set limit on the number of listings a seller can have, but it’s recommended for sellers who expect to sell fewer than 40 items per month.
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YES, ok, I think there may be a language barrier, or dare I say AI Hallucination because yes you can list as many items as you want, but if you sell more then 40 a month then the pro plain is less $
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40 items per month is the point at which you pay more for the listings than you would to just get a professional account. There should be no actual limit as much as staying on the individual plan at that point is just a bad idea. This is aside from the other advantages of the professional plan that don’t require money.
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Ha! Poor old Connor. Individual seller accounts have never been limited to 40 listings, at least not since 2004 when I first opened one. But over the years I’ve seen this same imaginary rule dished out several times on the seller forums. As others have already stated, people get mixed up by the fact that the professional plan is the more economical one for any seller with over 40 SALES (not listings) per month. How their brain turns that into a limit of 40 listings – well I can’t explain that (even though my brain plays tricks on me, too; not trying to sound like Ms. Always Rational here!)
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We posted an inquiry to Connor …
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Connor is con(nor)fused.
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I would NOT be surprised to find out that GenAI is being used to ‘help’ them ‘help’ on the forums, and GenAI just straight up hallucinates sometimes.
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And would be likely to regurgitate inaccurate/outdated/incorrect info.
ETA: No reply from Connor to @Lost_My_Marbles yet, I see…
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To his (or her) credit, Connor posted a clarification in response to Marble’s inquiry:
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We have a pretty good flock of crows and grackles around here.
By now I’m sure all the MODS have come up with some decent recipes for crow stew or something. I wonder if they would be willing to share…
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Sorry Conner, but “you’ll be limited to 40 listings per month” is not an honest misstatement of
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I know! Why not be a grownup and just admit he got it all wrong. It’s not like he’s the only Amz employee who has no clue about individual accounts. I’d say “he’s in good company”, but upon reflection, I don’t know how good that company actually is. 
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Well, when you toil for a company which not only allows, but actively promotes, blatant IP Rights infringement like that seen on the below-linked PDP, and employs automated policing mechanisms that are so easily evaded by crude techniques such as used by that ASIN’s creator…
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What? You really don’t think “He_llo Kitty” is an advanced, sophisticated workaround, impossible to detect by any means known to humankind (or AI-kind)? 
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Well … at least Conner_Amazon didn’t publicly threaten us this time for questioning the accuracy … so there is some grow from last time.
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Agreed; I think that making progress like this is undoubtedly why Papy chose the Topic-Thread Title “Training the NSFE mods” when she made the 030424 split of the 1st 47 posts upthread from our friend @doilyboutique444’s original thread (link, SAS) where they first appeared.
Since my reply to Iris was the first one in the split, I am credited as the OP, and bestowed with the ability to choose any post as the Solution.
It appears to me that progress has been made on that front - largely thanks to the efforts of folks like you over in the Deep, Dark Abyss Of Inanity NSFE, methinks, although the apparently-tenable evidence of Amazon itself following the SAS probably shouldn’t be lightly discarded - but I’ve already set a target date for when I anticipate being able to credibly cast that flag, and put the matter to rest:
Only 500 more years to go… 
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