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IP Address question about logging in
 

HI,

Ebay obviously grabs your IP address when you log in. Does it capture it at any other point. Just say you login to ebay and then your IP address changes while logged in, can eBay catch that?

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

Most likely, why? If your worried about your IP changing during your login....it's not a problem.

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

I logged in thru my phone and for some reason the phone connection dropped after I logged in and started showing my routers address. I was only in eBay for about a minute when this happened. How would they know the IP address changed? I thought they only recorded it at login.

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

Just be sure the new IP is logged in and not a duplicate.

In the future, set your wifi settings to not connect automatically to any particular signal, and if it drops again you'll just lose signal and have the option to make a choice what to do instead of it searching for an IP you don't control.

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

They can caught you and for security they ask you some questions ( which you provide

them during registration ).

In order to prevent. You have to use Static IP try to avoid Proxy and VPN

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

Again with the stupid IP advice...

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

Its been an adventure, sometimes I login with my phone and everything is ok. Today it was dropping every couple of minutes, but like you said I turned off Wifi from the computer..... FYI, I think they the only way eBay checks for IP address is when you do something that requires a token, so simply browsing with a suspended IP address will not be caught.

Is it true that eBay will stop cross referencing a suspended IP after a few months? Also yes my phone logs the same IP address each time I login.

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

Please stop posting....Please, you keep giving awful advice and your really just saying random things. To anyone reading cool25's post, PLEASE IGNORE!

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I don't even understand what he was writing!

Re: IP Address question about logging in
 

That's because it didn't make sense...

I don't think it's safe to ever not check your IP. Don't ever reuse a bad IP.