Door A — Marketplaces
The store is dark, the listings are gone, and the balance — sometimes five figures of it — is sitting behind a hold. Marketplace freezes run on appeals and clocks: a limited number of appeals, a disbursement track most sellers never hear about, and windows that can be as short as 12 hours. Start by naming your notice.
Section 3 shutdowns, IP and inauthentic complaints, related accounts, performance deactivations — and a 90-day balance hold with a separate disbursement appeal at 60 days.
Amazon account deactivated →
Amazon funds held →
The Plan of Action builder →
Health-rating deactivations, hold tiers of 45, 90, or 365 days, a correction path Amazon doesn't offer — and exactly two appeals. The first one is half your case.
TikTok Shop deactivated →
TikTok Shop funds withheld →
The two-appeal strategy →
Restrictions, payment reserves, and case-based suspensions. Less published clock data exists for these three — the page is honest about that, and gives you the working path anyway.
The trap every marketplace shares: opening a fresh account to "start over." Every platform here links accounts — by tax ID, bank account, device, address — and a linked account inherits the closure. Sellers lose two stores to this move every week. Appeal the account you have.