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How can I get someone or a legal Rep. that will help me reinstate my KDP account

3.2K views 20 replies 9 participants last post by  Kdp wizerd  
#1 ·
Amazon terminated my KDP account claiming that I have multiple accounts.
But obviously I have never created two accounts and there's no existing Amazon accounts under my name except just this one that was terminated.
I have appealed to Amazon, sending multiple mails to them and they insisted on terminating my account.
Please who can guide me or help me out of this big problem.
All my huge royalties in the account just gone like that
Please help me out
 
#3 ·
There's really nobody. We agree to arbitration in the KDP contract. If you reply to the termination email and ask for a supervisor about arbitration, that's about the only thing you can do. Constantly emailing, by the way, ends up with your replies being ignored.
 
#5 ·
This happened to me. I am sorry for your loss. I believe this traumatic experience is something many, many authors will be experiencing in the future. I feel that Amazon is thinking of ways to terminate accounts. A culling and cleaning of house of some sort. Perhaps best selling famous authors threatened is pushing them? Amazon is also profiting from residue sales of killed off authors.

The best advice I can think of, is do not have all your eggs in one basket. Try and distribute your wealth in more than one area. I was a slave to Amazon, and regret it.
 
#6 ·
I feel that Amazon is thinking of ways to terminate accounts.
No, it's people who don't read the rules, or don't think they apply to them, or who think they've found a way around the rules, who end up getting their accounts terminated. Years ago, Amazon sent warnings, often several, trying to get people to clean up their accounts. This doesn't happen anymore. Rarely will we see an account suspended, very rarely.

You know what happens? The account holder ignores it. So then they get the account closed, and they complain about mean ol' Amazon, stealing their sales. The vast majority of those getting account closures are uploading low/no content, undifferenced public domain, and whatever the new PLR mess is, on top of "AI" writing, art and "assisted" junk.

Amazon loses money on KDP. Why the continue to allow the current state of publishing is beyond me and many others. I expect it's getting close to the point of it maybe all going away. At least, the low/no content, and possibly anything "AI".
 
#13 ·
Everyone should realize that whatever this video says, it's not going to work except in rare situations. And once everyone gloms onto whatever the technique is (no, I'm not going to watch it), it will stop working altogether. Amazon isn't stupid. The bots don't have time to keep going over someone's account, letting them back in to keep doing stupid stuff. There aren't enough humans to check every single thing, and let's be honest: most people deserve to have their account terminated.
 
#19 ·
No one is stopping anyone from seeking legal counsel. That would be illegal. What you won't be able to do is sue Amazon, since you agreed to the arbitration only rules. Forget the calls for class action suits, too. It's simply not going to happen.

As to Trustpilot reviews? Get serious, now. People who broke the rules are complaining because Amazon enforced those rules. What is this? Little League, where we all get a participation trophy? This is the real world. You violate rules on sites, you get in trouble. That is reality.

Amazon/KDP is not a scam. It's a viable way many of us make money selling our work. Most of us are very careful to follow the rules of every site we upload to. It's on us. This is self publishing. Amazon is not your publisher. You took on that job when you self published. We are all expected to have learned how being a publisher works. We're all grown ups here. Amazon is not your mother, looking out for you because you don't know or won't learn stuff.