On September 1st, Amazon randomly restricted me in Carhartt. No warning, no email, just restricted. Think most sellers got hit too and most I spoke to seemed to reverse itself pretty quick or could get auto approved. Not me. I tried to ungated for 3 weeks with various invoices, order confirms, packing slips, etc. Nothing worked. Getting denied for invoices being mailed to my buying email and not my Amazon selling email and other ridiculous reasons (or no reasons at all). Then other day, restriction is gone. No explanation. Still had open case requesting approval which i closed. The restriction glitch just fixed itself. Amazon is nuts and an absolutely horrible to work with. However, you can't beat the eyeballs it site brings and money you can generate through that traffic. For me to help mitigate the risk of dealing with such a shitty partner, I've diversified off Amazon (have decent size RE/rental biz) and stay diversified within Amazon (try to keep most brands under 5% of biz). Certainly not a full proof plan bc Amazon can still shut your whole damn biz down for onw reason or has been known to hard restrict your top 10 brands without notice, but it can help in situations like this in which we been down 2 brands for a few weeks (day before Carhartt restriction we got a Brand Review that we are still fighting!).