No disclosed single-account price is on record for Amazon, so no price curve is drawn.
Public asking prices only · Normalized to USD from the published currency using stored reference rates · Single-account and bulk unit pricing kept separate · Median, P25 and P75 only — prices are never inferred · Asking price may not reflect a realized transaction.
Demand drivers
Why these accounts are bought
3 documented
Seller ban evasion using established accounts
An investigation documented established marketplace seller accounts changing hands, sometimes to evade seller bans.
Every entry restates the abuse or fraud objective described in one named public source — press reporting, court filings, law-enforcement announcements, platform disclosures, security-vendor research or academic studies — and links straight to it. Nothing is inferred from other platforms, and no method, tooling or access route is described. Objectives documented in evidence are not a measure of how often they succeed.
Transparent scoring
Market Pressure Components
v0.1
Observed premiums
Commonly valued attributes
Account ageVerificationReputation / social graphPurchase historyGeographySubscription tierPayment history
Attributes describe themes in evidence, not product recommendations.
Sanitized record
Evidence
3 shown
Security Vendor Research
Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts
“Researchers examining more than 64,000 unique cloud access keys exposed publicly between 2022 and 2026 found that around 88% of a retested sample still authenticated, and 768 granted full administrative control of a corporate cloud account.”
Random people are being bombarded with unwanted Amazon packages after having their identities stolen by fraudulent Amazon merchants
“A companion investigation documented cases in which sellers registered new marketplace seller accounts using stolen personal identities, bypassing identity-verification checks.”
There is an underground market where secondhand Amazon merchant accounts are bought and sold for thousands of dollars
“An investigation documented a grey market in secondhand marketplace seller accounts traded through chat channels and account-swapping forums, with established accounts reportedly changing hands for thousands of dollars and sometimes used to evade seller bans.”