amazon API key keeps expiring

i got my API key (had some friends buy a few things) but now they've turned it off again. Seems like unless you're actively selling thousands of their products they randomly shut the key down. I get throttle errors whenever I do anything as the keys keep expiring.  I tried making new keys, but if all access is shut down by amazon, it doesn't help. I'm not selling yet, still trying to build and configure, which I can't test as the API key keeps failing. Is there a way to completely bypass the amazon api key in all the plugins so I can at least do my build and test?