As a small, women-owned, family-operated business, we take great pride in conducting our operations in full compliance with Amazon's ethical and business standards. However, we were recently notified of a counterfeit violation, which has led to the deactivation of our seller account.
We fully understand that counterfeit products are strictly prohibited on Amazon. For this reason, we source all of our products directly from reputable and trusted suppliers. We are confident that we have never sold counterfeit products in our Amazon store. We hardly understand why we received this notification. There seems to be a mistake, so we emailed the brand owner to resolve this misunderstanding. We informed them where we purchased the products and provided all the documents to prove that we did not sell counterfeit items.
The company's Senior Director of E-Commerce replied to us, stating in the email, “You are absolutely not a small, women-owned, family-operated business. You have over 40 Amazon Seller accounts, some of which have been found carrying counterfeit products of ours. Due to the severity of the situation, we have a good faith belief that your products are counterfeit, and we will not be retracting the violation.” It is totally unacceptable for such a major brand to unjustly blame other sellers like this. We are a small company and we have only one Amazon account.
We upload all documents, including the brand's reply email to Amazon, to demonstrate that we did not do anything wrong, but unfortunately, our account remains inactive.
We just want to ask: is this fair?
Thank you.