/r/AmazonSeller – New to the subreddit? Please read this before participating here

Hi,

I’m one of the active mods for this sub (if any older redditors want to volunteer to help the modteam, please send a modmail) and want to offer you some info regarding participation here. Come on in and take a look around

Due to recent changes with Amazon’s forums, we are seeing a bump in new participation. If you are new here, first, welcome to the /r/AmazonSeller subreddit. Second, note that reddit is not a replica of Amazon’s forum nor is /r/AmazonSeller an ‘official’ forum (we are not Amazon employees) so please take the time to make yourself aware of the following

Understand that almost without exception, removals and bans on reddit are a result of rules and notices being skipped or skimmed

For a start, refer to

• The site TOS

• The subreddit rules

Realize that there are well thought out things which are intentionally placed in your path: the site guidelines, site notices, sub rules and their multiple placements, posting page notices, pinned posts, direct messages from the sub when you post, removal notices, and the notices pinned to the top of the comments in every post

What this forum is for: /r/AmazonSeller is a place for people who sell on Amazon to sincerely discuss their efforts there
What this forum is not: This sub is NOT for targeting our participants to sell or promote products or services to, it is not for market research, nor is it for those who are client seeking in any manner. Any attempt at this outside of the Community Promo Post, overt or implied, will result in an irrevocable ban.

The four biggest pain points for this community you should know

1) We are under a constant barrage by scammers and spammers, and that effort far far exceeds “legit” participation. Our available volunteer time is swamped with this so we do not have time to be wishy washy about it. Our rules are clear. Whether you are a scammer or you just act like one makes no difference, you will get bounced for it. We don’t have the time for pushing of boundaries or playing gray area verbal sparring games. As the rules and notices tell you, if you want to remain in the sub, here are some of the things you should AVOID

• sales brag posts – the vast majority of these are scammers trying to draw people in
• ‘helpful guru’ posts – the vast majority of these are scammers trying to draw people in
• asking others to contact you privately – don’t do it… don’t imply, infer, or hint in any way at this. The pinned comment added to every post is perfectly clear about it
• asking others to download anything – the vast majority of these don’t result in good things

2) Newcomers are responsible for the next largest chunk of problematic participation due to not yet understanding reddit and jumping in while skipping / skimming rules and notices. Hence, this post is us trying to help you get your reddit legs.

3) People who just ignore rules and notices in general. Some people don’t understand the simple concept that ignoring the amply provided rules and notices is not ever a magical free pass from what they state.

4) People who engage with ugliness. The first rule of the sub is Reddiquette+. The biggest takeaway from it is “don’t be a dick” and if someone is a dick to you, it’s not a free pass to launch a counter strike. Discuss Amazon, the facts involved but not the other person. If someone says something upsetting and you can’t control the urge to insult, then don’t respond to them and yell it at the wall instead.

We have posting restrictions and automated moderation in order to address these kinds of problems.

–>> IMPORTANT: Note the seriousness of the site’s policy on doxxing <<– – DO NOT ask / solicit personal or identifying info from anyone, or offer it, yours or anyone else’s. The recent Amazon forum change has exposure to IRL info so DO NOT share the identities from that site here. Doxxing is ban territory from all of reddit by the site admins, not just a ban from the sub by moderators.

To post here you need to have an account more than a few days old, have some comment karma, and have participated in other comments in this subreddit specifically. The amounts change from time to time, are small, nearly negligible, just enough to thwart most posting bots and other types of brand spanking new account related issues.

Do not ask for rules / moderation exemptions. There is no urgency or case which will grant an exception. The rules apply to all and we are not amenable to unfair moderation requests.

Lastly, again, the scammer thing. Dealing with the scammer side is a lot of work and frustration for us. Sadly, the other side of it is that a lot of people come here literally begging to be scammed who then don’t look at the responding scammer’s history or their profile or the weasel words being used. It’s sad to watch a sucker get a handheld walk into the deep part of the river by a scammer. This ain’t pokemon folks, as much as we try, we aren’t going to catch em all. Which is why you should always assume caution is warranted when engaging on an ecommerce forum

Welcome and Thank you