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Comment by mrpigeonpants | Hacker News Reader

I was just on Seller Central yesterday and the only current barrier to committing fraud or selling dangerous goods on the worlds largest marketplace is a $40 monthly fee, a bank account, and enough creativity to make up a company name.

I hope this will help crack down on fraudulent product listings as well. There are a lot of bad actors. Youtube and facebook aren't the only major players with moderation issues

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Don’t know about that. My wife just created an individual account to sell some things around the house. She had to jump through so many more hoops than I thought.

She needed to upload her passport to prove who she was. She had to have a credit card with her name on it. Plus she needed to prove she had access to the bank account (needed to have it show her name on the account). As well as the usual social security number being used at sign up.

Way more than I thought, but she had some identity theft issues. So that may have impacted or triggered something.

Every new account requires proof of identity to be verified.

So what happens once you identify as Chinese national/ Chinese business, sent some counterfeits for a bit and eventually get kicked off?

The penalty is just no longer being able to sell, nothing will happen with the products you have already sold unless a customer complains.

And you can just pay another Chinese person to use their identity to sign up again and keep sending in more counterfeits.

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