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Will i get suspended?
 

Guys, brief story of what happened:

1) I bought two brand new netbooks for my future stealth accounts.
2) I started from 1 new amazon account on each netbook. Of course all details were different (credit cards, names, addresses, usb dongles etc). So in total i opened two accounts on two different computers and have listed absolutely different items. Clever i am! =)
3) Three days ago i forgot that my old mouse had its MAC address too and plugged it to one of my new netbooks (i used to plug that mouse into my old black-listed laptop). Stupid I am ((
4) I decided not to continue with that new account because of this mouse incident. I thought amazon would have linked it sooner or later. I activated "on vacation" status and shipped the rest of my orders.
5) Everything was fine with my second new account. But today I needed to check my first new account's email box. I did it from my 2nd new netbook. I logged off from my 2nd amazon account (just in case), logged into needed email box, found one customer request there and... I do understand i should never reply! Stupid i am again! ((( I replied automatically... just was quite tired and completely forgot about this rule.

SHOULD I EXPECT THAT ALL 2 ACCOUNTS WILL BE SUSPENDED SOON? First one because of the f..ing mouse and second one - because of the answered customer request? I use googlemail for my email boxes and i disabled downloading of external content long time ago, maybe this is a chance not to get linked by one f..ing email???

Please advise... And thanx to all

My opinion is that at this point, you have nothing to lose.
Just be careful from now and and see if they'll still link you or not within the first 2 weeks.

Does it usually happen within two weeks?
Thanx

Mice don't have MAC addresses. At least not in the network sense. Amazon is not scanning your computer and discovering every USB device hooked in there. Even a bluetooth mouse would reveal nothing to Amazon but the MAC address of your laptop bluetooth radio.

wouldn't a wireless mouse have a mac address. I wouldn't think so, but you never know. If they do, Im screwed!

Just an update. I think the wireless mouse, and keyboards are infered/laser, so they would not be wi-fi capable, and probably not be able to be read by Amazon. I hope.

On that day Play.com suspended my stealth account. It happened after 30 min I plugged that mouse into my new netbook. My Play.com account was opened under absolutely the same details as I used for my new Amazon account. New netbook, new Prime Master card, new name, new address, new telephone number, new usb internet dongle, absolutely different products listed. The only difference was that I had to provide Play.com with my bank account number from the 1st day but it was also new. Taking all this into consideration I am pretty sure they have linked me through that black-listed mouse. It means each mouse has MAC address and it can be seen by them easily. That's why I think my Amazon account will be blocked because of the same reason soon.

Any ideas about that email i sent to the customer? Any chance for my 2nd account or not? Just want to know if single email can kill.

A mouse cannot be configured to a wifi network, therfore, there will be no MAC address.

Go to a website that shows your network adapters and MAC addresses. These are the things that have network capability:

-Firewire
-Bluetooth
-Wifi
-Ethernet

Amazon can't access other things. A wireless mouse usually has a dongle plugged into the computer; the radio part should be seamless and not generally visible.