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Listing patterns tracking
 

Haven't seen this before but when I thought about how I would start listing again, I thought it might be a problem.

I'm sure no bot would be able to track via this but if a human suddenly started comparing your old listing style to your new style, this could probably be used as another link.

Here is an example..

Say I was selling tshirts.. and I had 5 designs in 4 sizes so I want to list 20 a day.

I list 1 of each design in each size at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm.

eg. 12pm Red XL Blue L White S Green XXL Yellow M
2pm Red S Blue M White XL Green L Yellow XXL


if after suspension I started a new account and did similar (although links, pictures and the stealth info are all different), this would be a linking factor by human eyes right?

The reason I say this is because I had a pretty good system with mixing it up and having my items ending at (what I think) are good times to have them ending.

Comments?

Nah, you don't need to worry about that.

one thing i was thinking about was say for example you listed the shirts and get suspended. You make a new account, list shirts up again. Since your IP would be in one area, would that be a trigger for ebay to flag your account?

Agreed.

I'm somewhere not many other people do ebay so I'm a bit worried about that. Selling the same item should be easy for them to figure out if they start by looking at "what is being listed" even if I change everything else.. the item and area of the world are definitely triggers

The only time that would really matter is if it was your competitors that were the ones that were reporting you to Ebay.