This post is for a friend - please help her out if you can. Below are the steps she takes to get a new ID but for some reason she keeps getting linked to the same old account from last year.
Any ideas to help her out would be greatly appreciated.
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Steps taken each time ...
1. Clean all cookies using clceaner AND privacy mantra
2. Sign up for dial up account with peoplepc
3. Go thru all steps to "create new me" - simon giftcard, a free forwarding phone number, etc.
4. Clean all cookies and shut computer down before signing into ebay to create account
5. Create ebay account with that info, without adding a bank account, just bill balance to credit card.
Due to financial CRUNCH/CRISIS, I immediately set up this same account as a seller account.
6. Go to auctiva, create an auctiva account with the same info I set up the ebay account with
7. Begin listing. I use the same items I sold before, but change the title and by reuploading them
to a new auctiva account, the images are also renamed.
I sell the same type of items each time. Prior to November of '06, I never had a problem creating
a new account and moving on. Now, everytime I create a new account, it gets linked to my accounts
that were suspended last November.
The computer I was using most recently was a new computer, never
directly logged into either of the accounts from last November. I had recently moved also, so I had a new IP, and thought it was safe, so I had created two accounts prior to this one that I just
described that had been suspended. Those were the only suspended accounts on this particular computer.
Here's the funky part.. At the same time as creating those two accounts, I created one to sell household items. I logged in with the same IP as those suspended accounts, and don't even bother
with auctiva, I just go directly into ebay and list items. That particular account STILL exists. I figure, it's days are numbered, and if I were to list any quantity of items, that would be enough to grab the attention
of the ebay powers that be.
Now.. I have a rented computer and two different dial up accounts. I have two simon cards waiting for new accounts.
However, I want to know what it is that I am doing wrong before I attempt it again. I hate to sound desperate, but I actually am.
I've always used ebay to support myself without a problem, but I recently had a baby, and now it's not
just me that I worry about. I can't end up in the streets with a new baby! I have got to get this right and I absolutely
REFUSE to let ebay beat me!
If someone could please be so kind as to let me know what it is that I'm doing wrong.. I really thought I had followed every single step that you have to the letter, yet they always seem to find me. I always use
ccleaner, and recently added privacy mantra and have one more to add, which is evidence-eraser, just waiting for the serial number
for registration.
Since I'm using a new computer - have dial up now so it's a new IP each time -- use auctiva and never sign into ebay after setting up the account -- how do they keep linking me to an ID that was never on this computer?
Please help if you can - Thank you!