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Suspended under the INFORM Consumers Act

This is not a Plan of Action case. Writing one answers a question nobody asked.

Short answer

An INFORM Consumers Act suspension is a document-matching problem on a 10-day statutory clock, not a policy appeal. US law requires Amazon to suspend selling if verification is not completed after a non-compliance notice, so no appeal wording changes the outcome — only matching bank, tax and address documents do.

Why this one is different

Most deactivations are Amazon exercising discretion. This one is not. The INFORM Consumers Act is US law, and Amazon is legally obliged to suspend selling for non-compliance. It has no discretion to be persuaded.

A Plan of Action will not help here. There is nothing to argue. There are only documents that match, or documents that do not.

Who it applies to

Sellers with 200 or more transactions and $5,000+ in gross revenue over a 12-month period. It requires annual re-certification of bank, tax and address details. Sellers above $20,000 in annual revenue also have their name and address publicly disclosed.

What to fix, exactly

Bank account details exactly matching your registered business name
Tax ID matching the legal entity named on the account
Business address matching Seller Central character for character
Government photo ID for the account holder
A recent utility bill or lease in the business name

"Character for character" is not an exaggeration. A suite number present in one record and absent in another is enough to fail an automated match.

The known failure mode

No appeal button appears. Sellers report the system auto-submitting outdated details, after which no appeal option exists anywhere in the dashboard and Support returns only template replies.

If this happens, do not keep resubmitting the same form. Open a case and ask Support in these words to reset the identity verification workflow so you can upload current documents.

Does fixing it actually work?

This is the one category where real outcome data exists. In January 2026, US Senator Durbin's office published figures gathered from 46 online marketplace operators:

About 40,000 high-volume third-party sellers suspended for INFORM Consumers Act violations
Roughly half later reinstated after coming into compliance

So roughly half came back — which also means half did not. That is a real rate from a government source, unlike the 95%-plus figures advertised by reinstatement services, which are self-reported by firms that choose which cases to accept.

The full kit

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Not affiliated with Amazon. Not legal advice. No tool or service can guarantee reinstatement — Amazon makes that decision. If large sums are frozen, if you are accused of counterfeiting or a safety breach, if you have been rejected more than once, or if your notice cites Section 3, get a lawyer who specialises in Amazon seller cases.

Where Amazon's own wording is quoted it is marked as such. Practitioner guidance is labelled as practitioner guidance. Where sources disagree, this says so rather than picking one.