AS 68: Suspended on Amazon and what to do. Advice with CJ Rosenbaum

Today I’ve got CJ Rosenbaum on the show. He is the founder of AmazonSellersLawyer.com, a law firm focused on Amazon sellers.  Cj wrote the book: the Amazon Law Library.  There firm spends the majority of their timing helping suspended sellers obtain reinstatement of their selling privileges.

In this episode, you'll learn:

* How to get suspended on Amazon

* Common reasons why sellers get suspension

* Get to know CJ

* How to fight against IP issues related to suspension

* Brand competition trying to shut you down

* How CJ became a lawyer

* Diversifying your Amazon business

* Multiple accounts on Amazon, and whether it's a good or bad thing...

* What the difference is between suspensions and bans

* Who handles seller suspensions now

* The multiple levels of seller suspension

* Combatting IP Claims

* Combatting seller suspensions

* What works and what doesn't work for seller suspension

* Trademarks, patents, seller suspensions

* Highs and lows of CJ's journey

And much more!

Get in touch with CJ

http://www.amazonsellerslawyer.com/

Also worthy must-watch related to Suspension from the AmzSecrets show:

See how I got suspended and then got unsuspended on Amazon, all in the same day.

DAVID ALADDIN:  Great to have on the show, CJ! Can you tell us where all begin?

CJ ROSENBAUM: Sure! Hey, Dave, great to be on the show! I love, love what you are doing! Powering people, powering people to be successful. You really could be the lion. I mean, there’s no opportunity ever in history of commerce that’s being provided like Amazon provided. Anybody with a cell phone and a credit card access to 80 million customers, it’s unheard of. I am really, I am really excited to be here!

What we do is we help seller when they get suspended. That’s probably 80% of our practice. We help people when they get suspended for what inauthentic, or you sold as new, or listing problems. That’s probably 40% of our time. Another 40% is spent dealing with intellectual property complaints. You know, a brand owner, or brand manager, or a big corporate America reaches out and they say you don’t have the right to sell their product. We deal with them. And we stay in toe-to-toe with the big firms and the big corporations, because the vast majority of those complaints are bullshit. And I hope my language is okay for your audience.

DAVID ALADDIN:  Perfectly fine!

CJ ROSENBAUM: The vast majority of these intellectual property right complaints that you get are nonsense. Most of you are not taking the Nike solutions sticking it on a hat, or coping someone else’s verbiage and therefore there’s no IP basis, no intellectual property infringement. And they use the Amazon system and the flaws in the system, to get people in listing suspended. So day in and day out we get those complaints retracted by these companies who are using trademark bulling to hit the small people.

DAVID ALADDIN:  And do you see a lot of these like major companies like take a… I mean, you are talking about Nike and… Did they have more leverage using their big brand presence versus smaller companies?

CJ ROSENBAUM: You know they don’t. In fact they have more liabilities actually, you know. Because let’s take a big brand, you know, like Cisco, or HP, or Samsung. And they make a complaint, and when you stand up to them, you say: hey, you know what? We know it is nonsense, and you know it is nonsense. They have lawyers on staff and those lawyers know they are going to have to withdraw, or they going to encore liability.