Amazon Payments
 

As they said there is no way to liquidate an Amazon gift card to Amazon Payments. If that was possible then the floodgates would open!

Update
 

Based on an email I just received from Amazon, it does appear that my Amazon.com account was "blocked" along with my Amazon Payments account because they didn't like the unspecified way that I was using my Amazon Payments account.

I've emailed them back to see if they will unlock my Amazon.com account, so I can access by Kindle library, movies I've purchased, etc. If they don't unblock my regular Amazon account, it's "on", as blocking access to media that I've already purchased is tantamount to stealing--at least to most people it would be. Regardless of what their "terms" might be, I'm sure Amazon wouldn't appreciate the negative publicity that they can block access to already purchased content without any recourse for the customer.

Does anyone use capital one 360 checking as account b? I'm looking to set up an account b and was wondering about a simple online checking account. Thanks

I use a cap one 360 savings acct and it works great for AP.... make sure to set it up under acct b's name and info tho so it matches the AP acct.

That's the plan! Thanks for confirmation!

Wait, did they specify your Amazon.com account being blocked? Most I've seen is something along the lines of "you have other amazon payments accounts, etc etc, we are closing this one down", but I've never seen them shut down an Amazon account. That's a separate product. Is there anything else unusual you've been doing?

Are you sure your Amazon Payments account is blocked? I've had issues in the past with Amazon putting my main account on hold (apparently due to my activity triggering their risk/fraud prevention rules), but this has never affected my Amazon Payments accounts. Similarly, I've had my Amazon Payments account shut down, but this has never affected my main Amazon account.

Note: the past few times I had my main Amazon account on hold (with the same symptoms that you described), my access was restored automatically after a few days, sans all my saved payment methods (which they apparently automatically remove as a fraud prevention measure).

Update: They've re-enabled my Amazon.com account after my email, but my Amazon Payments account is most definitely "suspended" per their email, which I can verify when I log in.

Successfully charged $1k on my new 2nd Citi HH card through AP.
(first and only account)
Was on pending for a good 5 hours before going through.
Just posted on the cc statement ( was pending for about 48 hours)
Sent $1k to son who needs it for school.
Not looking to play the ABC game.
Thanks for all the info on this thread.
Although did not see the warning of not doing all of $1k at once.

Yeppp, that's how it starts ;)
Yeah, we will see :D

Not an issue (even with ABC).

Cheers!

been using AP between 7 accounts since it's inception. I had random accounts go suspended and would open new ones over the years however yesterday all of my accounts were suspended. I opened one ones, charge #1 is pending, i hope it's not blacklisted.

Very sorry to hear; but appreciate the data point.

How long was your oldest account? I'm assuming you had one tied to a normal Amazon account. In relation to all of your accounts, when was it shut down?

Were the closures totally random, or do you have a suspicion (if you care to share)?

Did Amazon CSR say anything about whether they would reopen your suspended account? Mine is suspended too. I think its weird that they call it "suspended" rather than "closed" since, to me, suspended implies that it is temporary. I don't wanna get any more attention than I have already gotten, so I am reluctant to call them. But if you were already in contact with Amazon CSR regarding this issue, I was wondering if you could share any info you received about your suspension that might also apply to other people's suspensions.

There is no way to contact the department that can actually do anything, except by e-mail. If you call into the customer service they just tell you they'll forward an e-mail on to the other department "[email protected]" As a heads up, the verification people are slow to reply (if they reply at all, which I've found they rarely do, and never tell you anything useful. Don't even bother unless you are sure it's something benign.

Does anyone else get the feeling that they are cracking down on this AP game..??