The sales of one product suddenly disappeared after I added one product image. I think I got targeted. Please help.

Hi,

I have a product that has been selling well (around 15-30 units a day) for 4 years. Yesterday I added a product picture that explains the “Small Business” badge to buyers; basically asking buyers to support small businesses. Amazon approved the new image. I also added that image to A+ content and got approved. I did that at night around 9pm Eastern time. 24 hours have passed and only 2 sales happened at 8:30am and 9:30am. Very strange. Normally this product average 1 sale an hour.

I checked the listing. It was not suppressed. Actually it just received an “Amazon Choice” badge. I did the index check by entering the keywords and ASIN to the search bar, the product showed up. So it is still indexed. However when I enter the keywords to the search bar, the listing is nowhere to be found. Normally it’s on the middle or bottom of page one.

I believe that this listing may have been targeted by a black hat Chinese seller because of my new product image. The Small Business badge is only given to small US businesses. In that product category, the sellers are 20% USA and 80% Chinese. By explaining the Small Business badge in the listing, it could piss off some Chinese sellers and (this is my suspicion) one them decided to nuke this listing through a black hat technique. Now it’s not searchable.

Please help or share your opinions. Thank you.