# 👋 WELCOME to SAS! Introductions here...

**URL:** https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542
**Category:** About SellersAskSellers.com
**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542 "2023-03-19T20:09:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/medic/32/1890_2.png) [@Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Medic)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/228 "2023-06-21T01:01:25Z")

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So good to see you!!

You’ve been missed; we’ve been playing… Where’s Dogtamer instead of Where’s.. ![Screenshot 2023-06-20 5.56.04 PM](https://sellersasksellers.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fef5aa2b020a700b4894696f67e622efd31f021c.png)

![Welcome Home GIFs | Tenor](https://sellersasksellers.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9855971209f522210d64e3363bd73ea4a20ac3aa.gif)

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### Author: ![Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/dogtamer/32/4766_2.png) [@Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Dogtamer)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/229 "2023-06-21T01:06:27Z")

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> [@Medic](#):
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> So good to see you!!  
> …

Thank you, Row - I’m glad to see you, as well!

I would like to note that I’ve been particularly impressed by the efforts of folks like you, @Lost_My_Marbles, @Tvoi, @TCLynx, @dwat0870 et al. over in the ~~abomination~~ NSFE, especially in regards to the ongoing re-verification fiasco.

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### Author: ![Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/medic/32/1890_2.png) [@Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Medic)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/230 "2023-06-21T01:17:44Z")

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I just saw your post, that’s funny we posted the same gif.

Gotta love Seinfeld; it’s exactly what came to mind when I saw Dogtamer… 😆

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### Author: ![Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/medic/32/1890_2.png) [@Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Medic)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/231 "2023-06-21T01:23:13Z")

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> [@Dogtamer](#):
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> especially in regards to the ongoing re-verification fiasco.

…and what a fiasco it has been; the next few weeks should be interesting.

![Eye Of The Storm Windy GIF - Eye Of The Storm Storm Windy - Discover & Share GIFs](https://sellersasksellers.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c89ad77d68c88d9655c2a03062bbe83da24e1521.gif)

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How did re-verification go for you; everything verified?

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### Author: ![VTR](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/vtr/32/14279_2.png) [@VTR](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/VTR)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/232 "2023-06-21T01:41:41Z")

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Morons at Amazon as usual.

 ![image](https://sellersasksellers.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/df288cb78837a8ba37b65f4a3654e008f3d8fcb0.png)

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### Author: ![SawleMill](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/sawlemill/32/747_2.png) [@SawleMill](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/SawleMill)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/233 "2023-06-21T02:01:45Z")

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> [@Dogtamer](#):
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> I’m already out of likes

_plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose_

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### Author: ![dwat0870](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/dwat0870/32/5233_2.png) [@dwat0870](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/dwat0870)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/234 "2023-06-21T02:59:39Z")

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I thought you had higher standards but I’m flattered by your comment anyway. 😆

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### Author: ![DDS](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/dds/32/391_2.png) [@DDS](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/DDS)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/235 "2023-06-21T03:10:43Z")

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> [@Dogtamer](#):
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> > [@bookwormapril](#):
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> > …  
> > Shoot, now we’ll have to stop talking about you.  
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> Me ears _have_ been burning

At least 21 times, if I have to _guess_ 🕶 It is so nice to finally see you here, @Dogtamer!

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### Author: ![joebcrafts](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/joebcrafts/32/488_2.png) [@joebcrafts](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/joebcrafts)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/236 "2023-06-21T03:21:38Z")

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> [@Dogtamer](#):
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> ~~abomination~~

Yes, yes it is very much so.

Welcome to the antithesis!

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### Author: ![lake](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/lake/32/66_2.png) [@lake](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/lake)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/237 "2023-06-21T03:33:11Z")

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Let me join the chorus in welcoming you.

I feel inadequate to verbalize how I feel after so many have made their pleasure evident.

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### Author: ![Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/dogtamer/32/4766_2.png) [@Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Dogtamer)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/238 "2023-06-21T04:40:52Z")

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> [@Medic](#):
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> …  
> How did re-verification go for you; everything verified?

Yepper - we didn’t get the dreaded “[Action required] Verify your information for the INFORM Consumers Act” email until 25May23, but we were able to breeze right through the mess _without_ uploading a bank statementNote 1 by 12Jun23, once the various options became available and/or were invoked (by me) through this or that ‘backdoor’ point of access - largely because I diligently followed any & all SIV-related ASF threads for many years, and have done so here in the SAS (lurkingly) ever since @oneida_books’ 6Feb23 ‘Heads-Up’ thread [https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/just-an-fyi-on-all-the-account-reverifcations-and-why/237](https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/just-an-fyi-on-all-the-account-reverifcations-and-why/237)

Thanks to such perusal of various discussion venues, I had noticed that there was a relatively-new component of this enforcement initiative - the so-called ‘+1/Country code’ requirement - so on 23May23 I visited the Business Address and Phone Number Dashboard; unlike what subsequently became the standard in this ever-evolving debacle, I submitted in what was then shown as the ‘greyed-out default’ format, “+1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx”Note 2.

When it finally became possible to invoke the ‘SIV Postcard’ functionality on 6Jun23 - a first for me, as we were not subject to that in the earlier go-rounds of the last few years - it took a day for the status to change from ‘Preparing/Processing’ to ‘Dispatched’, at which time the EDD was 17June.

I kept the Business Address Dashboard open on a VM (“Virtual Machine”) from 23May until 12Jun, and was mildly amused to see the EDD bounce back and forth, earlier and later, until finally settling back to 17th on the 12th.

The postcard actually arrived on that date, & w/in two & ½ hours of submitting the code, we were good to go.

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> **Note 1**
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> I am not presently A Member At The Bar, but even I know what our legal eagles would have to say should I revisit the question I raised back in 2016, when I first began to see indications - gleaned from my observation of ASF posts, when it was still being hosted by the Jive Platform, concerning Amazon demanding provision of bank statements for what was not-then yet-known as the “SIV” (“Seller Identity Verification”) process - about supplying Amazon with one of _our_ corporate bank statements.
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> In contrast, I chose the “Credit Card Statement” option, and added some refinements of my own, because I felt comfortable that I most-_likely_ **could** trigger the desired result by doing so:
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> 1. First, I deliberately chose a hard-copy statement from October 2022 - supposedly, out-of-date for the 180-day requirement that some have reported - for the card we’ve always used to supply Credit Method Manager
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> 2. Next, I deliberately scanned a mis-aligned/‘tilted’ copy - on the grounds of _possibly_ evading this or that poorly-targeted first-echelon Amabot, and thereby forcing human interaction - and created a 1-page pdf from the resulting image file
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> 3. I archived that pdf in its original form, and then renamed a copy to “CreditMethodManager\_AMEX-053023” - the date I uploaded it, after waiting 5 days for Amazon to enable the option, & the standard abbreviation for the card provider - before uploading that
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> I cannot say with any surety that any of those efforts played any role in our quick success in clearing that particular hurdle - but I can say that less than 12 hours later, the cherished 'Green Checkmark appeared for that portion

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> **Note 2**
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> Eventually, Cooper and other NSFE mods somewhat-sheepishly admitted that those who were reporting that the correct format being accepted for them was “+1xxxxxxxxxx” were correct - and sure enough, upon logging into Seller Central on 11May2023, I was presented with yet another of the ever-popular “Emergency Contact Phone” prompts (the first & only I’ve seen in 2023, after the recurrent quarterly-or-more-often bouts w/ that annoyance which we & other members of our Seller Community have experienced with that ever since TSV/2FA became a requirement), and I was compelled to submit in the revised format.

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### Author: ![Best\_Handmade\_Soaps](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/best_handmade_soaps/32/3121_2.png) [@Best\_Handmade\_Soaps](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Best_Handmade_Soaps)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/239 "2023-06-21T05:01:18Z")

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Imagine my joy when I noticed I had a reply regarding the AWD program when I had not posted for a few days, and upon going to the thread it was from none other than the one and ONLY Dogtamer!

Let me just say that I for one (and I am certainly not alone) have missed your eloquent prose on these SAS forums for the last 146 days.

Welcome back!

-Ana

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### Author: ![Setalpz](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/setalpz/32/2028_2.png) [@Setalpz](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Setalpz)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/240 "2023-06-21T06:16:13Z")

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@Dogtamer - I can not put into words how wonderful it is to virtually see you again. You complete us.

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### Author: ![Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/medic/32/1890_2.png) [@Medic](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Medic)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/241 "2023-06-21T13:39:30Z")

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> [@Setalpz](#):
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> You complete us.

@Dogtamer..agree.. 🫶 🫶 🫶.. 😆

 ![Screenshot 2023-06-21 6.36.26 AM](https://sellersasksellers.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4f1c29abc05a1f8bf350373567459c2f6a0eb12f.png)

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### Author: ![papy](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/papy/32/7639_2.png) [@papy](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/papy)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/242 "2023-06-21T13:40:27Z")

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> [@Dogtamer](#):
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> Note 1

May I please add this info to [https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/most-helpful-re-verification-2023-posts/1253?u=papy](https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/most-helpful-re-verification-2023-posts/1253?u=papy)?

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### Author: ![Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/dogtamer/32/4766_2.png) [@Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Dogtamer)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/243 "2023-06-21T15:09:31Z")

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> [@papy](#):
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> May I please add this info to [🆘 Most helpful (RE)VERIFICATION 2023 posts](https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/most-helpful-re-verification-2023-posts/1253)?

I am flattered that y’all would consider it worthy of inclusion in that collection of Pro Tips for navigating the fitful rollout of Amazon’s enforcement initiative, so by all means you may do so if you think it advisable.

I remain deeply indebted to the help that we’ve received over the years from members of our Seller Community’s contributions, and now that the SAS has replaced the ASF as the go-to fount of accumulated Amazon Seller wisdom, I’d like to continue paying it forward in any way that I can.

I cannot, of course, guarantee that things which have worked for me will necessarily be invariably reproducible - but if a ‘trick’ like this helps but a single one of us prevent Amazon’s automated mechanisms trapping us in an unrequited loop, for the Apr.`23 SIV Snafu _or_ in any other regard, I will be grateful.

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### Author: ![oneida\_books](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/oneida_books/32/44_2.png) [@oneida\_books](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/oneida_books)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/244 "2023-06-21T16:21:38Z")

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**Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy to see you here!!**

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### Author: ![Gandalf](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/gandalf/32/90_2.png) [@Gandalf](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Gandalf)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/245 "2023-06-21T16:54:45Z")

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Couldn’t have said it better!

@Dogtamer Welcome back, my friend! So glad to have you around!!

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### Author: ![Tandi](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/tandi/32/4287_2.png) [@Tandi](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Tandi)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/246 "2023-06-21T18:26:13Z")

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> [@Dogtamer](#):
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> ‘Rutabaga Kid’

🤣 Nice to see you again!

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### Author: ![JustForFunStuff](https://sellersasksellers.com/user_avatar/sellersasksellers.com/justforfunstuff/32/267_2.png) [@JustForFunStuff](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/JustForFunStuff)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/welcome-to-sas-introductions-here/542/247 "2023-06-21T19:07:42Z")

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oh I remember one Saturday evening a foreign poster on the NSFE made comment about wanting to call someone at fed ex in USA and was asking for a phone number.  
of course this “number” appeared  
The thread blew up, it was hilarious.  
Then of course, it was promptly removed by a mod who didn’t appreciate the humor.  
Was fun while it was happening tho

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