Auction coming to an end how do I play this?

dj9928 · #1 10-16-2011

I've sold bits and pieces of rubbish to show I am a good enough seller all building up to selling a mobile phone. I've had the phone on a week and its due to end tonight, I have a stealth account, Paypal is verified etc but my plan is to use the fund from this auction to buy a different mobile phone.

I don't think its gonna work to be honest, I am gonna get the 21 day hold which wouldn't be so bad if it was released when positive feedback is received but I've items sold 3 weeks ago which are still on hold even though positive feedback has been received.

I could get the person to pay via an invoice which will mean no hold but it might look suspicious,

Then when it comes to buying another phone on my stealth account I am using an address of a Chinese in town, so if I change the delivery address to my own they could link and suspend/reverse and hit me with a 180 day hold.

How do I proceed?

meVebay · #2 10-16-2011

Rewind 12 months, and I used a banned (numerous times) address as my default shipping and return address on eBay and PayPal.

Nowadays however, it seems the auto-bots are checking all address's.

Use a suspended address at your peril!

Withdraw the money, and if you have to buy a phone on eBay, create a stealth buyers account (Semi Stealth, using your real address but not linking your selling account to it)

RedShootingStar · #3 10-16-2011

You have way to much going on here. Keep it simple. You have an account in good standing, so why are you trying to screw it up. Who cares about the 21 day hold. Just like 99% of all the others on here, dont abuse the system, dont try to cut corners. If you want to stay you need to play their game.

dj9928 · #4 10-17-2011

Ok right well the auction ended, a guy with 200+ positive feedback won however he hasn't paid. After a search on what he's bought he is either very rich or someone has hacked his eBay account as I see 10 high value mobile phones won in the past 5 days, and whats more this 1 item has taken me over my £350 monthly spending limit so I don't think I can list anything again even though he hasn't paid.

So what do I do now?