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Asking for SSN/ITIN
 

I have hit a wall on both my good standing eBay accounts. eBay is asking for my real name, phone, address, and SSN/ITIN.

My last sale was in 2015, I just logged in to see if I can maybe get things rolling again. Is there anyway around this?




account info:

-Personal account
-at least 100 sales
-created 2014
-all good feedback

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add your personal details and you are good to go , the only way around this is adding someone else's details but the person should know about this and should agree as you will have to do tax returns in their name

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do you plan to sell with this account?then you need to apply for MP payment and it would need SSN

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What country is your account from, is it a stealth account?
You have access to that phone number and email registered on eBay

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Yes. What is MP payment? Sorry been out of the game for years.




To Yobar:

This is a US stealth account. I still have the email but not the phone #. Name and address is ⊗⊗⊗⊗.

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MP Managed payment.
Ebay has replaced Paypal with an outfit called Adyen,it will accept your buyer payment and deposit the proceeds into your bank account.

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oh, Manage payments, so it's no longer Paypal.
They use a 3rd party credit card processor.

You may wanna update your phone number asap.

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The glory days are over my friend. You will need to apply your SSN for now on. Stealth accounts are pretty much dead now.

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you better recommend him to read the forums , in his case there is a lot of useful info and multiple promising ways to continue selling as a US resident

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good recommendation - OP, you have a lot of reading to about MP and the changes with eb since you have been away for quite some time

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Sad times.



So if I use my own SSN and name am I good to go? I will have to change the full name/DOB/address on eBay to the real thing, which was banned back in 2013. Is this a dumb idea? My goal is not to evade taxes, I just want to get back to selling this inventory that has been taking up a bedroom in my house

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That's 10 years ago, I'd say go make a new account.

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new account with my real info?

i've read that eBay bans for life. I'm willing to give it a shot though..

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Yes, thats correct. When you start selling, you'll have to enter your real SSN, address, DOB, etc...

You should be fine.

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But he said his account was suspended in 2013,does Ebay have his SSN then?

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That's right no SS# back then

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old suspensions do not matter anymore

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i never gave ebay my SSN.


I don't even think I gave Paypal my SSN back in the day, so that number is clean.



Ok, sounds like I will enter my real name/SSN into my old account that is still in good standing and report back. Thanks everybody

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If you have received a 1099K from Paypal,then you must have given Paypal your SSN

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Yep, your real info. Still follow part of the stealth guide but you should be good.

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Good stuff - seems like you're set

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Welp tried to enter my real name and bank account and all it says is "Your account is limited. Please contact us."



oh well...

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I have not heard anything about limited ebay accounts so far , was it even on ebay?

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good luck with this friend, keep us informed

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Wow, this is so dumb. You should’ve created a new account. If I saw this thread earlier I would’ve warned you. You can’t change the name & bday of your old account because it’ll look like an ATO (account takeover) especially it’s been dormant for so long. It looks like someone stole the credential and tried to take over the account to eBay.

To add insult to injury, eBay previously did not have your SSN. You can easily create a new real account since the last suspended one is a decade ago. They might link it to your new account if they do a thorough check, but that would only happen if you appeal a restriction of MC011. If you use a different address in a different city, you’d be good for a long time provided you don’t sell too much too fast.

I can’t believe the Japanese mod told you to go ahead. You’ve now ruined your
working account because they’re think it’s being taken over by someone unauthorized, they normally just suspend those dormant accounts since you hadn’t used it in a while. Meanwhile, your SSN is tied to it.

You majorly F’ed up.

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Lol this is 100% false.

My aged account was stealth over 10 years ago which had a different name. I’m so thankful I have it, and upgraded to MP with it. Making a new account poses much more risk and you are subject to many more audits by security. Majority of what you said is complete nonsense.

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You changed the name on your stealth account to your own information?

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Some time ago I bought a real account from 2011, and last year I took it for myself with my real personal information... it's an old account and like 1987 FB.
changing information will generally not create problems

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This stuff gave me anxiety from 2019-2021. In the back of my mind I always thought once I had to upgrade it was over with my account. I cannot speak on what happens now, but when I did it in 2021 all that happened was my personal name section was removed, my real name was then shown at the top welcome area.

Without going into detail my account had some issues in 2022, I did get it restored this year thankfully. When I say issues that includes eBay legal team removing a specific restriction. If internally it showed anywhere my old name I highly doubt they would have helped me.

At the end of the day, eBay was not facilitating payments so it was not illegal to operate under a different name. I still have some emails that show my old stealth name, but for all the information eBay would be seeing that matters reflects my personal name now.

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be careful with changing all info though...

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The difference is you’ve been actively using the account but OP was not. So when he logged in and changed personal info on a dormant account, that’s a big red flag for eBay.