I've also made a discussion over at Slickdeals.net, a website I frequently visit. It seems like this is not new for amazon.com, as they directed me to many old archived threads about the issue. Some of them are 100+ pages long.
Here is one:
http://archive.slickdeals.net/f/9089...unts-by-Amazon
I'm trying to get the advice of people who have been through the banning process and eventually got their accounts reinstated to hopefully help my case as well.