Using different web browers

[jamblix]

Alright so this is crazy, I'm at my brothers house right now and he currently has 3 eBay accounts on one computer running at the same time. He has never read the stealth guide and all he does is use a different web browser for each account and they are from this point not linking. He's selling clothing on one account using Firefox, body jewelry on Internet Explorer and shoes on Google Chrome. All three are different accounts with different PayPal and the IP address is the same. How is this possible?

I asked him and his only response was yeah we just use different browsers and they don't get linked...

[aspkin]

They're linked, no worries.

One goes down they'll all go down.

Tell him to be good.

[jbluntz]

So much for that idea, it might be good to use different browsers with different users though.

[First Edition]

Linking them doesn't mean they will all be shut down. It just means ebay knows it's the same person.

So when one goes down, as Aspkin says, they all go down.

[bmwsouthside]

These guys are right! I had this same scenario going on for a few months..then wham! all of them were gone and have had trouble since then.
I dont even log in from home anymore because I know it would be linked to all the old suspended accounts I had on mozilla and internet explorer that I thought were not linked. But they were!

[jamblix]

Yeah I thought it might be too good to be true. Oh well back to the drawing boards.

[DogFacedBoy]

I agree. Apparently the only way that he'll know they are linked is when one goes down and takes the others with them.

Right now I have run up to three accounts from the same computer at the same time. I am using different Windows user accounts for each, 2 running through AOL proxy the other straight off of the real IP address. So I have 3 different IP addresses and each has its own cookie


So far, so good.

[First Edition]

Originally Posted by bmwsouthside

These guys are right!

Yep, we're pretty good at this, contrary to popular belief.