AND it deleted my old post! I knew it might fail since Amazon is being a turd, and preemptively copied my post to my clipboard but somehow it didn't take it.
I have not used my account in a few years, and appears inactive. To re-activate, it demanded a bunch of personal information and a credit card. It wouldn't activate the credit card but said can take 48 hrs:
I did that, no luck. I even checked/re-added the info, no luck. I couldn't find the CS number and forum posts suggested linking to buyer credit card, because phone support is nonexistent. So I ordered an item, and of course, the same credit card works for buying stuff from amazon, yet I still get this error. I eventually found the CS number on google: 888-280-4331, from an Amazon forum post, which does appear to be the Amazon CS number. I called it, it was fast, and the woman told me they could not forward my call, so I would have to hang up and call seller support: 800-419-7355. This number shows as seller support here:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/d07cf1171813af3cf78a2583d7b44cb1
But when I called it, they wanted to know my age > or < 50. I said less than 50, so then they started hawking a free medical alert device (fallen and can't get up). I said NO I'm trying to fix my seller account, and they hung up. I called again, same crap about the medical alert device so I immediately started yelling at them and they hung up again. I called a 3rd time and it said the number was unavailable in my country (USA). Is this a scam?
So I tried to post on these forums but it won't let me not double-post:
But numerous people have this credit card issue including:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/b9297e6c-1db4-4b49-8c02-d68efec95779
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/4aa93870-3296-4ea9-9afc-468e180d4a46
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/20b9cc31-5a60-43c9-baed-bb72626d2a14
There is no resolution and CS tells you to screw yourself?? eBay has gone down the toilet the last year, like a drunk monkey influenced the AI that completely runs everything from the login to the posting screening. Please don't tell me Amazon is too? This is ridiculous.
And then to add insult to the insult to injury, I tried to post, knowing the Amazon site was being a turd, I copied the post. Refreshed the page, and its gone, and somehow not on the clipboard:
WHY can I not COPY TEXT to my clipboard? This is a highly reproduceable issue. ARGH. Seems to have to do with the images inserted, you'd think would just be HTML.