Hey everyone,
Been through the
stealth guide thoroughly and have been gleaning as much info off the boards as I can. I think I am ready to put this to work.
I planned a multi-pronged approach that will be on going of course.
First, I attempted to buy a couple of aged accounts from one of our respected board members, but unfortunately she has had a family hardship and my money is held up there until she is able to work again. So, aged accounts are out for now unless someone else out there has ages US accounts.
Next, I am planning to set up my own accounts asap, but still unclear on a few things.
My understanding is that I need a VBA and a VCC, which I can purchase here from authorized sellers. I am a bit confused whether I should buy a VCC or a AVS VCC. Do I need an AVS VCC so that Paypal can verify my address? Then the address will be pre-set by the seller of the AVS VCC and I will need to follow suit with the address that I use on the paypal/ebay accounts? is that how that works?
This what I was planning to do. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
1) I purchased several tracfones. I will activate one using the zip code that I plan to use on the Stealth account. ( I have never used tracfone, so my understanding is that this is all the info I need to be concerned about when activating)
2) Buy a VBA and VCC ( or AVS VCC not sure which I am supposed to get )
3) Create user account on my PC
4) Connect through a
VPN. I currently have HMA (Hide My Ass)
VPN service. I can change my IP for each Stealth account; however, it only gives me an option to change IP location. So, for example, I can choose Ashburn, VA as the location and it will connect through a certain IP address, but next time I connect it will give me a slightly different IP. Still same location, but not same IP. Will this cause issues in the beginning?
5) Create a Paypal account using Stealth info and connect the VCC ( or AVS VCC ) and VBA.
6) Create ebay account with same info as Paypal.
7) Connect ebay to Paypal.
I know that people say to establish some sort of history before selling, so I plan to browse and put things on my watch list etc. Maybe even send some questions to sellers. What I am unsure about is that some people on the boards say to buy some things. My question is, how do I buy some things if I am using an address that I don't have access to?
I am really in need of starting to sell asap. I know you must have patience when setting these things up, thus why I wanted to do a multi-pronged approach by buying some aged accounts too, but that seems to not be working out.
I was also thinking about not connecting a real bank account right away until I make sure everything is running okay. I am selling products that tend to get MC999, so I want to protect real bank accounts as much as possible.
I applied for a 2checkout merchant account. I know enough html to get a simple site up for them to see. Still looking into the details. Was thinking that I would make purchases with my Paypal balance from my web-site using 2checkout for a while before adding a real bank account to Paypal. Like I said, still looking into that option. If anyone has other ways that they get their Paypal funds out using merchant accts, etc.... I'm all ears. I've sen elance as an option but have not researched that yet.
Anyway, looking for some feedback on how I am proceeding. I really need to get the accounts up asap so any suggestions are very much appreciated. And thanks so much for all of you experienced people sharing on here. I intend to do the same as I learn more.