Recognizing your computer via cookies? IP? Flash Objects? - New proposed EBAY policy

[oscar_98]

"After our data collection phase, sometime in June eBay will begin verifying our sellers when they list an item to ensure they are logging in from the same machines they have successfully used previously – usually a home or business computer."

They are saying they will be checking your identity at the time of the listing. If they will be using cookies to track this, how would it effect people who use auctiva for all their listings? I NEVER list an item directly through eBay. I assume they will be using IP to track this and if you always use auctiva then you will always have their IP associated with your listings, correct?
If that is correct then it would not matter what computer or IP you list from, so long as you always use auctiva, or something like it, to list.

[Modee]

You're talking IP and cookies two different things.

I don't use Auctiva so I don't know how using that affects IP or cookies. I think that question should be posted in the Auctiva thread.
http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-tr...se-any-ip.html

[Fiev]

Originally Posted by aspkin

And this doesn't share cookies between profiles?

This does not. Profiles are absolutely isolated (cookies, bookmarks, cache, stored passwords, authenticated sessions, history). Each profile stores all info in separate folder. You can make a "template" profile and after that just clone it by copying template profile folder to new folder and adding info about new profile in Profiles.ini of your FireFox:
===
...
[Profile09]
Name=09
IsRelative=0
Path=C:\ffprofiles\09

[Profile10]
Name=10
IsRelative=0
Path=C:\ffprofiles\10
===

For example here we have 10 profiles 01..10 and they content is located in folders C:\ffprofiles \01 \02 \03 ... \10

[becca073]

I don't normally use Firefox cause I seem to have problems when using dial up. But I just looked around the browser and cannot seem to locate where you would create a new user. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[craigoaus]

I use Equinux iSale to list this is Apple/Mac software. When you register the software it grabs your computer serial number which can be read on the iSale web site.
Is it possible that ebay has adopted similar technology?
If they have it could make things difficult a separate computer for each ebay account.

[ebay-sucks]

Control Panel / User Accounts

[Modee]

Originally Posted by craigoaus

I use Equinux iSale to list this is Apple/Mac software. When you register the software it grabs your computer serial number which can be read on the iSale web site.
Is it possible that ebay has adopted similar technology?
If they have it could make things difficult a separate computer for each ebay account.

Did you read what is posted above in this thread? Come on now - what's this you say got to do with this thread?

Equinux iSale uses the serial number of your computer to make sure you install it on one computer only. This has absolutely no bearing to what is being discussed here. EBAY can no more read your computer serial number via the internet than I could from 20 miles away with a pair of binoculars.

But...it's good that you're using your head and thinking outside the box.

[craigoaus]

I think this has a lot to do with the thread, assuming the thread discusses the new eBay policy. What I am wondering is perhaps eBay is not going to relate a computer to an account not by ip address or cookies but by a computers serial number. I mention Equinax iSale as it is proof that it is possible for a third party to obtain a computers serial number. Even using a different user account on the computer does not change the serial number. I hope I am dead wrong and it (referencing to a particular computer) will be as said earlier here based on cookies etc...but if I was running eBay I'd be going for the computer serial number (which is obviously very easy to do) pretty hard to get around that other than having a different computer.

[thelizardking]

It won't be the serial number, most likely just changing users on your PC should suffice, or using Auctiva...but we'll have to wait and see...we can tell more when it starts happening...shouldn't worry too much cause we will find a way around it

[craigoaus]

Hope you're right, I have been following the advice from you guys here for some time now with no problems so as you say its a matter of wait and see...

[Modee]

You guys can spin in any direction you like, but all the proposed policy has to do with is...cookies.

[craigoaus]

Well Modee if you are right and I hope you are I owe you a beer...:-)

[aspkin]

Modee is right most of the time; it'll be interesting to see what eBay plans to do next. Anticipation ignites… You guys should probably start hording new eBay accounts before eBay becomes even more radical.

[Modee]

True, because usually these new rules are either not applied to older accounts, or applied with less severity.

[anotherguy]

Concerning creating multiple users on Firefox, I don't see the Control Panel anywhere on Firefox, am I using the right browser:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

Originally Posted by ebay-sucks

Control Panel / User Accounts

[ebayaintstupid]

every time I used Auctiva, that account got suspended.

[ebay-sucks]

Sorry, I do not use firefox.

[mantisinc]

Download it then!

[NowWhat]

On this tracking question: how does it work that on my laptop I run ccleaner on turning off and on opening - yet I go to this forum and am recognized (don't have to sign in)? Is it the IP address?

[GreenBean]

WOW. Maybe it is the bribe money you are paying aspkin. Man, I am sooo jealous, I gotta
sign in every time. ROFLOL.

Arh, actually I hope aspkin will give you a correct answer.