Dear Amazon team,

I am trying to reactivate my Amazon seller account due to an error. I wrote, created, and sell children’s piano method books under my own brand.

Two months ago, I hired an independent contractor to assist solely with cataloging and optimizing product listings. The independent contractor was at my house and I logged into my Amazon Seller account using his laptop, which was the same device he used when he worked from home. I did not share any other personal or account information with him.

After working with him for a week and a half, my Amazing Seller Account was deactivated because of relational association with another account that I did not know anything about, VSS Collections.

Then I found out that this independent contractor previously had an Amazon Seller account (VSS Collections) that has been deactivated. He did not disclose this at all before. There was no way for me to know this. But then because he was logged into my Seller Account on his computer, Amazon assumed this relationship.

As soon as I found this out, I terminated the contract between SPK Publishing and the independent contractor. I also made sure that passwords were changed, that he was fully logged out of my account on his device, and that all cookies and cache were cleared. I submitted an appeal, it was rejected, so we took all of those steps again, and even got a notarized affidavit saying that our business relationship has been terminated.

The contractor’s prior account history was unknown to me when I hired him and our Amazon Sellers accounts are in no way related. He cannot reactivate his account, but I have no relationship to VSS Collections, and this is very clear if you were to look at the products that we sell and our 12 year history on Amazon.

Can someone please help me? I've spent dozens of hours trying to solve this, and we have appealed several times, but nothing has worked. The person reviewing our documents doesn't seem to understand that we have no relationship with this other account. Thank you so much.