![]() All I can say is, we give advice based on what Amazon does. Many sellers have argued with me about RebateKey and its competitors, even when Amazon has suspended them for using the program. ![]() It is platform manipulation, review manipulation, sales and rank manipulation. They couch carefully on their website the fact that they can force buyers to leave positive reviews by withholding payment and providing proof of the review and that no returns are made. It’s a benefit: “You approve!” and “verify the validity of Amazon orders.” RebateKey acts as the middleman and makes the payments to buyers for you. RebateKey manipulates Amazon‘s system by creating verified full price purchases and verified reviews on Amazon that were, in fact, deeply discounted. It makes keywords look organic that are not. This is b asically their version of magic links. RebateKey us es Search Find Buy (SFB) links to help sellers rank for keywords.They called them “Magic Links.” These are expressly against Amazon’s Business Sellers Agreement (BSA). These generators had the ability to create super URLs which is where rank and platform manipulation comes in. Elite Sellers has a QR code generator for product inserts and social media use.Both used gift cards or PayPal to p ay buyers their rebate s and other incentives.Elite Sellers gave sellers the ability to only send re view requests to specific buyers – c herry picking.Elite Sellers gave sellers complete details on their buyers including their full addresses, phone numbers, reviews they left and the ability to export this data for outside purposes. ![]() Elite Sellers supported warranty programs as well as rebates.RebateKey allows sellers access to the buyers and to use their ability to not pay buyers as leverage for positive reviews.RebateKey is a deal group that requires buyers to buy for full price on Amazon without Amazon being aware of the discounting.Elite Sellers is integrated with Man圜hat. ![]() Any campaign using Man圜hat or similar tools is risky because it is a big red flag to Amazon. My guess is sellers have a short window for this.Īs I’ve advised before in my blog, presentations and conversations with sellers, warranty and rebate programs are risky. Most are non-compliant. They are already defunct, but it shows compliance with the warning. You should also review your other service providers for compliance. We are advising our clients to disable these applications immediately in their Seller Central account. If sellers don’t comply, however, if they sign up with a RebateKey or Elite Sellers competitor, they can expect to be suspended and perhaps permanently banned. After all, they were warned. Numbers like that would overwhelm Amazon Seller Performance. While most sellers were not suspended, the warning is clear: Amazon is watching you and they know what you did. Why weren’t they suspended? Why the amnesty? Elite Sellers claims millions of sellers use its product. At the same time, it removed RebateKey and Elite Sellers from accessing its API, effectively putting them out of business. Amazon sent notices to Amazon third-party sellers this week warning them to cease and desist violating its review manipulation, rank manipulation and seller code of conduct policies.
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