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TheRivers
A little more on Amazon Automation. Turns out this practice is actually against Amazon’s terms of service and they can shut your account down if they find out you’re doing this. There are all sorts of articles on the web that mention this…but this guy explains it very well (including how the automation “brokers” make you sign a waiver so you can’t sue them if/when your account is shut down). So you potentially are on a race agains the clock to make money before Amazon figures you out. Therefore it’s not going to be a long-term passive income source like these folks are selling.
https://youtu.be/V0dATVVSAmk
I worked Cyber security for Amazon years ago and one of the biggest problems was multi-accounting and free trial abusers. We would be tasked in finding different accounts from the same person that were either deliberately starting free trials for Prime and then cancelling after 30 days and examining their info. We’d even examine those fake Amazon email orders that led to call centers in Indian running the Refund scam.
However, I’m not sure they would be able to shut down These automated seller accounts if it uses a different log in with different account owner personal info. Simply because there are millions of homes that will have an Amazon account for each family member even though it will have the same billing/shipping address. They can simply deny any fraudulent activity and say the person is a guest in the home and has their own Amazon account.
For instance if Paul Ryeman bought & sold Ryobi products on Amazon, but Jake Fruge signed in to that account and performed the transactions with Paul’s permission, it’s likely not going to get terminated.
Now if they were using fake identities or shipping addresses, that might be easier to prove fraud. But like YT it’s a highly gray area that they’ll avoid disciplinarian action as long as Amazon is making money off of it!