It's safer and easier for them to just ban you rather than sending you an email a human has to read and evaluate your response.
It's a brave new world.
All the long-standing crappy MFA sites out there make it seem unlikely that Amazon is doing much crawling.
Why would someone spend so much cash on ads to get probably very little sales?
It's a weird egde case that is more likely as per their experience to result in chargebacks from the few sales they got. Traffic from HN is not the normal traffic the AI is trained on.
The sad truth is when you partner with a FAANG and their likes you need to think about what they have optimised for, not what is actually good for you or them. What is the easy money they want and how would they calibrate they systems so they get more of that and less 'noisy' or even 'expensive' money?
Go for that rather than something different that raises virtual eyebrows.
Interesting thought, in that case I'll just have to keep trying.
It's actually much better then anything else that's probably out there for bike tires.
Amazon was just not ready for the huge traffic spike. Either relaunch with a new ID or try the support. Whatever faces less resistance.