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[onceuponatime]

What an interesting thread here. Prior to my purchasing a STEALTH account, when I was still a novice in trying to get back on ebay using a friends account, we too used Capital One Bank with a new account that my friend set up. After 1 month the ebay account was suspended and my friend got an email saying that she was indefinately suspended and they didn't want her back. After numerous calls to ebay to find out why, one idiot said "you've been connected financially to XXXXXXX via the bank". Nothing I could say would convince them differently and the rep hung up on me. I immediately called the bank because of all the reasons in the world that ebay could think of, saying she was "financially connected" to me was ludicrous. SOMETHING MUST BE UP with Capital One Bank because the only connection between this person and myself is that we bank in the same bank and I was there when she opened the account.

Who knows, maybe Ebay/Paypal have some sort of connection with Capitol One. I think Chase is going to get all my business from now on.

Very weird.

PS...I just ran this by a friend who came up with a simple and logical explanation. Capitol One Bank must be sharing IP links with ebay/paypal. If you check Capitol One online under your stealth account, or any account they probably capture your IP. If you check ANY OTHER ACCOUNT at Capitol One online they probably capture your IP as well and then, if the online log in for different accounts share the same IP, it's quite possible that they "link" these accounts as coming from the same user/household etc since it's from the same computer even if different account numbers and names. Who knows, with the new provisions of the PATRIOT ACT it's quite possible that all banks are doing this. How Ebay/Paypal would have access to this information, I don't know. Yet, based on what happened to me personally and what I've read here, seems that they do. Maybe the CEO's of the companies count their money together?

I can tell you I'll be using Firefox with dial up from NOW ON to check any bank account on line.