How many selling accounts under one name do you have?

[starengine]

You have a stealth ID ready: how many accounts do you have under this ID?

My experience: you register 3 and then if you try to register a 4th one, ebay goes funny and the system just stops responding - no meaningful errors or anything.

There is a 'hidden' ebay rule: you are ONLY allowed 3 accounts for the same phone number. It's so hidden that ebay support don't even know. Many times they will tell you there is no limit.

Could I have 10 selling accounts (all selling different products) for one ID?

Thanks.

[rsot]

Not sure about this "hidden" ebay rule - I personally would not have more than 1 account with this ID.

I have made (mind you this was US-based) up to 8 eb accounts with 1 ID - all attached to one pp (experimentation in the past) and have had limits lowered then limits spread out over the 8 accounts - it was not a fun time

[starengine]

@rsot thanks for the reply.
limits i am not really worried about.
i plan to build up all accounts.

this is my thinking (and knowledge from past experience)...
assume you don't get caught out for connection to another banned account...

for any one account you are allowed 10 strikes. (i just made that up. some strikes are different and carry different weight of course). say you get 10 selling accounts under one name. one day you get 5 strikes on one account. stop selling on this one and carry on selling on the other accounts. my guess is that every account has a 10 strike limit. so instead of getting wiped out... you could just go on jumping from one account to another?

[yankee]

You need to work on your stealth practices. Everything you are saying is 100% linked accounts. This is not stealth, it is financial suicide.

Also, stop getting strikes. If you are always having issues, learn to operate in a manner that doesn't. I dont ever get "strikes" or warnings or items removed etc... You are doing something wrong or selling something disliked by ebay.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by starengine

for any one account you are allowed 10 strikes. (i just made that up. some strikes are different and carry different weight of course). say you get 10 selling accounts under one name. one day you get 5 strikes on one account. stop selling on this one and carry on selling on the other accounts. my guess is that every account has a 10 strike limit. so instead of getting wiped out... you could just go on jumping from one account to another?

Don't play with this model - 1 strike could wipe out the WHOLE linked combination. Aim to avoid strikes and to keep accounts unlinked.

The way we were talking about above = heavily linked accounts

[dallis]

One account per ID.

Anything else is a ticking time bomb.

[johnwick1]

Look into ways to gain easy access to starting multiple ebay accounts in bulk under different names.

You'll find an easy way to do it if you research the forum.

[dallis]

Of all the things you need to do, new accounts are the easiest.

[starengine]

guys thanks for all replies.
happy to follow advice from experienced sellers.