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Originally Posted by applepbc (Post 935030)

did you ever funnel money between the accounts

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 934835)

Let me start with the fact that I have been doing this for 6 years. I have read the Stealth book 2x (back in the day when it was a pdf and just last year in the new version).

I just received emails for all of my 16 eBay accounts that each is suspended. Message read that recent activity raised serious security concerns. Some accounts have had a lot activity , ones with a bank acct linked. Others, I sold small used household items almost 6 months ago and have occasionally logged in but did not sell anything since.

Each account had different information, separate prepaid t-mobile phone number, all IP's were tracked and never used the same one. I was using the method of a cable modem and separate router, changing MAC to get new IP on xfinity. Each had a separate gmail account. Never any transfers between PayPal etc. Each PayPal had a separate Visa vanilla, address with matching zip codes.

I have no idea why and how each account was suddenly linked and suspended. Did something change in the eBay process? I did not use any third party services for shipping. I had all email addresses on my iPhone with the images disabled.

Any ideas please????

Originally Posted by Hercules (Post 935157)

I see no mention of separate user accts above. I didn't read everyone's imput here but an open logged in ebay acct forgotten then logging in to other ebay accts at the same time would implode everything as it happened to you...that might do it.

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 934862)

It's a Mac computer. Each account has separate computer user. IP's always tracked.

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 934845)

Could it have been gmail? (I have the email for each account on my iPhone, always have)

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 934855)

Bank accounts were spread between Suntrust, Chase, and Discover.
I have never moved funds between the accounts.
Addresses were all within 20 miles of each other.

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 934858)

Some accounts had similar items sold, although I took different pictures and cleared data on each via exifPurge. That, however, doesn't explain all other accounts that have barely been used and never had anything similar sold.
Process I use for images: take with iPhone > upload to dropbox > download from Dropbox to the corresponding computer user > rename photos > use exifPurge to remove data

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 935187)

Q: how long were all these accts up n running for???
A: Since December of last year. I had all my accounts closed down before Christmas, that time because I had the same return addresses (learned my lesson). I got away with it for 2 years until Christmas time came and I tried to sell more merchandise last year. That triggered a manual review I assume, as I had an eBay rep contact me on my private cell phone number that was on my personal ebay account (with my info).

Originally Posted by nodeal (Post 935355)

I had something similar happen to me the beginning of this year. All in all I lost around 50 accounts.

I ultimately narrowed down the reasons to the types of items I was selling in specific categories. There was a certain consistency in the accounts that got shut down in regards to this. The accounts had different items, but there were similarities in categories. When I really analyzed it, I found consistencies in certain categories that triggered these limitations. There really was no other variables.

Do you sell brand name? I know you mentioned you sell different items but is there any similarities in the categories of the accounts that got shut down?

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 935185)

Play:
For the gmail, I use iPhone’s default ‘Mail’ app in which I have each e-mail account added (including personal yahoo email).

I suspect it may have been a vero or an upset buyer that lost a case against me with eBay. Nonetheless, the reason is not as relevant as the link to other accounts. Most of them did not have vero or any other negative marks/violations.

exifPurge is something recommended on here by a user once. It is a batch purifier. I am not sure how I’d check if data was cleared?

I did have ipv6 (supported by my internet connection) but never tracked it. Just now based on a answers by nate in this thread (https://www.aspkin.com/forums/ip-add...tml#post934990) did I disable it on my computer. So far from all the input I’m thinking this may be the reason for the link (tracking of ipv6 by eBay).

Thanks for the browser info. It’s I don’t think there was any signing in as far as Safari goes but I did once ina while use chrome on some user accounts. That may have cause a link but between some but again, not for all 16 accounts ( I did not use chrome on most on the computer user accounts).

I did not use any images or links within my description window.

Here is an example of the ips I was recording (without the last 2-3 digits):
76.16.213. 8/6/18
76.16.214. 2/2/18
73.209.246. 12/26/18
76.16.212. 01/29/18
73.50.124. 01/30/18
73.209.246. 01/30/18
73.209.246. 02/01/18
73.72.45. 2/5/18
76.16.211. 2/6/18
71.201.221. 2/11/18
71.201.218. 2/19/18

Originally Posted by prodigyace (Post 989541)

@Play, if you're using entirely different user accounts on different computers with IP's in different states, is it possible to link accounts through browser history/syncs?

Originally Posted by yankee (Post 934860)

using window users? VMware?

My guess if all got closed down at the same time, it is a very solid link such as repetitive same IP used or all accounts on one computer user.

Originally Posted by joanna4051 (Post 934985)

To answer all of the above:

Q: IP6 or IP4? Question, did you have big IPv6 IP addresses when you were logging?
A: I always used ipburger to check ips, hence recording IP4. In a previous post I inquired about the difference and which one is ‘seen’ by ebay. When I tried tethering via my phone (t-mobile), ipburger showed me the IP6 and I couold only see IP4 on whatmyip.com. Either way, I never used this method (tethering).

Q: IP - I strongly advise you to record these within excel. The fact you're using a word document for 6 years make me feel you're not too experienced with IT, and may have made a mistake somewhere, perhaps unknowingly
A: I highly doubt that, as long as tracking IP4 only (not IP6) is ok. I use a mac computer and Word has a lot less glitches than Excel for MAC, and does not crash as much. In my word document I have each account listed with a list of ips and a date each ip was used for the past 6 years. Using the CMD+F (command find) option I can wuickly scan the whole document for repeat ip’s. Very rarely do I get the same ip’s ac from several years ago, more often I get repeat ip’s from the same day or few days prior. Of course I don’t log in on those, I repeat the process of mac change and router reset.


Q: Are you positive EXIF data is purged? Did you use the same item descriptions? Any similar wording? Or was it all unique? That can easily link you.
A: Again, yes. And even if some descriptions etc were similar to other accounts, at least 7 accounts did not have any images, items, categories or descriptions in common with other accounts and yet were suspended as well (all at the same time).

Q: One upset buyer buy from multiple accounts and make a formal complaint?
A: Yes, there was an upset buyer but again, 7 of the accounts had no similarities in items sold etc.

Q: What are you doing for return addresses?
A: I have had all accounts suspended 2 years ago for having the same return address so I learned that lesson. This time around, only few of the accounts had a return and on those I sent the customers a PDF file of return label via email from the USPS website.

Q: shared Icloud account?
A: No iCloud. I did use the same dropbox account for all, but the images were cleaned via exifPurge.

Q:Were you using portable browsers?, I'm assuming you weren't, and were just using browsers within each user account. Which browser where you using? Safari? Chrome / Firefox? Did you sign into the browsers (and thus sync browsing data together)?
A: I used Safari within each user account. I’m not sure what you mean by signing into the browser? I had the same gmail account signed into from the browser on each user.

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Q: Internet - Is anyone else using your internet connection whilst you're using ebay? and perhaps even logging into their own ebay account(s)?
A: No.

Q: The listings - were you selling same item across accounts? were you using the same images? were you removing exif data from images? did you're listings contain any html content that were the same across all listings?
A: As explained above. I’m not sure what the html content is but I hope the exifPurge took care of those?

Q: Did all 16 accounts go down same time, or over some period of time?
A: Yes, down to the minute according to the timestamp on the email messages.

Q: OP, in your GMAIL accounts. Did you disable IMAGES? if you didnt, and opened an email to read, you basically spread a virus to ALL of your accounts :(
A: Yes, images were disabled.

Originally Posted by agent006140 (Post 992898)

I put my money on hardware,she is using the same device Mac for all 16 accounts,with modem and router.
Some of these are hardly used ,and some do no have bank account linked.
To take all 16 accounts down at the same time,the common link is the hardware.
question-what about Ebay cookie?

Originally Posted by tinsoldier (Post 993513)

I've been using 33mail.com for my email addresses for years now with all security settings in place routed to a non-ebay gmail address with images etc disabled which is in turn handled by MS Outlook with all the security features possible enabled.

The only way they could link me would be a pattern in my 33mail.com account format, but at the end of the day its no different to the way other mail providers handle their customer base.

For example, my email addresses could be

john@tinsoldier.33mail.com
albert@tinsoldier.33mail.com
jack@tinsoldier.33mail.com
stealthysod@tinsoldier.33mail.com

It is very easy to manage, with endless instant email addresses.

Will they catch on and block my active accounts....who knows? :attention: