The appeal email thing is hit or miss depending on the platform. KDP usually just sends back a form letter if it's a content policy block, but Draft2Digital actually has a real person reading those emails and I got a travel guide restored in India and Turkey after about 9 days by replying to the original notice instead of the generic appeals address. The part nobody tells you is that the ban list often comes from a third party distributor, so if you went wide through Smashwords or Ingram, that's the email you actually want to hit up. Either way, keep all the paperwork from Manila reader, dates, screenshots of the block messages, because they sometimes ask for proof the book is real and not scraped AI junk.

Huh, 11 days is rough but honestly that's kind of how brokers work, they don't have their own trucks so they gotta find someone. The cracked mirror sucks though, that part's on them. Not sure I'd call it hostage situation, more like you paid for the cheap route and got the cheap service lol.