So good to see you!!
Youâve been missed; weâve been playing⌠Whereâs Dogtamer instead of WhereâsâŚ
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Thank you, Row - Iâm glad to see you, as well!
I would like to note that Iâve 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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I just saw your post, thatâs funny we posted the same gif.
Gotta love Seinfeld; itâs exactly what came to mind when I saw Dogtamer⌠
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âŚand what a fiasco it has been; the next few weeks should be interesting.
How did re-verification go for you; everything verified?
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plus ça change, plus câest la mĂŞme chose
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I thought you had higher standards but Iâm flattered by your comment anyway.
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At least 21 times, if I have to guess 
It is so nice to finally see you here, @Dogtamer!
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Yes, yes it is very much so.
Welcome to the antithesis!
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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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Yepper - we didnât get the dreaded â[Action required] Verify your information for the INFORM Consumers Actâ 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 âbackdoorâ 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_booksâ 6Feb23 âHeads-Upâ thread Just an FYI on all the account reverifcations, and why
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 â+1/Country codeâ 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 âgreyed-out defaultâ format, â+1 (xxx) xxx-xxxxâNote 2.
When it finally became possible to invoke the âSIV Postcardâ 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 âPreparing/Processingâ to âDispatchedâ, at which time the EDD was 17June.
I kept the Business Address Dashboard open on a VM (âVirtual Machineâ) 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.
Note 1
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 âSIVâ (âSeller Identity Verificationâ) process - about supplying Amazon with one of our corporate bank statements.
In contrast, I chose the âCredit Card Statementâ 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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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 weâve always used to supply Credit Method Manager
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Next, I deliberately scanned a mis-aligned/âtiltedâ 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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I archived that pdf in its original form, and then renamed a copy to âCreditMethodManager_AMEX-053023â - 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
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
Note 2
Eventually, Cooper and other NSFE mods somewhat-sheepishly admitted that those who were reporting that the correct format being accepted for them was â+1xxxxxxxxxxâ were correct - and sure enough, upon logging into Seller Central on 11May2023, I was presented with yet another of the ever-popular âEmergency Contact Phoneâ prompts (the first & only Iâve 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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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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@Dogtamer - I can not put into words how wonderful it is to virtually see you again. You complete us.
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@DogtamerâŚagree⌠
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May I please add this info to đď¸ Most helpful (RE)VERIFICATION 2023 posts?
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I am flattered that yâall would consider it worthy of inclusion in that collection of Pro Tips for navigating the fitful rollout of Amazonâs enforcement initiative, so by all means you may do so if you think it advisable.
I remain deeply indebted to the help that weâve received over the years from members of our Seller Communityâs contributions, and now that the SAS has replaced the ASF as the go-to fount of accumulated Amazon Seller wisdom, Iâd 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 âtrickâ like this helps but a single one of us prevent Amazonâs 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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Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy to see you here!!
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Couldnât have said it better!
@Dogtamer Welcome back, my friend! So glad to have you around!!
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Nice to see you again!
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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 ânumberâ appeared
The thread blew up, it was hilarious.
Then of course, it was promptly removed by a mod who didnât appreciate the humor.
Was fun while it was happening tho
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