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What actually triggers an account review (a catalogue, not a theory)

Reviews are usually caused by a small cluster of inconsistencies. Here is the catalogue sellers report most often, ordered by how much you can control.

2026-10-28 applied #review#platforms#checklist
What actually triggers an account review (a catalogue, not a theory)

The controllable ones

  1. Network type. Registering from a hosting ASN is the most common day-one trigger.
  2. Country mismatch. IP country vs phone country vs payment country vs warehouse.
  3. Device reuse. The same fingerprint on a second account — the platform sees it regardless of IP.
  4. Payment reuse. One card or bank account across several stores.
  5. Rushed profile changes. Many edits in one session.

The half-controllable ones

  1. Behaviour. Sudden volume on a new account, abnormal hours, automated-looking actions.
  2. Listing quality. Copied images or text from another store.
  3. Address quality. A residential address in a city where the platform has no traffic.

The ones you cannot control

  1. Platform policy changes — new verification steps rolled out by market.
  2. Neighbour risk — a shared CGNAT address used by someone else for abuse.

What to do with this list

Go through items 1–5 before registering; they are cheap to fix and cover most cases. Keep a record: date, IP, verdict, ASN. If a review happens, that record is what turns "I don't know" into a specific answer.

Our platform notes break this down per marketplace, and the checker covers the network part in one paste.

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