No sale in 180 days = your account is deleted, not paused

No sale in 180 days = your account is deleted, not paused
The overlooked clock: a new Associates account that generates zero qualifying sales within 180 days is closed automatically. Many niche-site builders publish for 6 months pre-traffic and lose the account on day 181.
— Reapplying restarts the review and your prior tag history
— The fix costs nothing if you act before the deadline
Fix: drive at least 3 qualifying sales (the bar) before 180 days — even one personal-network referral counts. Track the date from approval, not first publish.
So what: the threshold is 3 sales in ~6 months, low, but it is a hard cutoff, not a warning.