Major Stealth Failure!

wired · #1 10-08-2014

So, been trading fine on multiple accounts for months, selling well.

However this morning, I logged in and processed todays sales....but instead of my computer seeing the dongle, it fired up the Wifi (on its own!) and I didnt notice until after replying to messages and processing the items.

So I have just logged in to my new account with the IP of my banned account.

Is this account soon to be done for? Anyone ever managed to do the same and are still up and running?

What a muppet I am.

Bunneh · #2 10-08-2014

If you were on the correct windows user account, then doing this once should be fine, is it is not a definite link

If you do it more than once, that is a different story.

oompaloompa · #3 10-08-2014

it has happened to most of us, time will tell, but more than likely it will be ok...

wired · #4 10-08-2014

Thanks Bunneh, thanks Oompa..thats some comfort!

I was on the correct Mac account.

It did happen once when I first got the account about three months ago, i opened a link, but other than that no other cock ups...

Guess time will tell. Better get started on a new one ready

Has anyone actually been stung from 1-2 time accidental log in on a banned IP?

Bunneh · #5 10-08-2014

3 months ago? you may be lucky with that as your ISP i am sure would have changed IP since then with all the updates they do.

IP alone wont get you banned (unless its a VPN)

wired · #6 10-08-2014

but i still use my banned ebay account to buy stuff with so I had logged on yesterday on the IP my wfi gives out

Callidus · #7 10-08-2014

Usually once is fine but dont make a habit. Trying and be wary from now on

Univerzal · #8 10-08-2014

Shouldnt a wifi give you a random ip from the routers ip pool?

wired · #9 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by Univerzal

Shouldnt a wifi give you a random ip from the routers ip pool?

I am no expert but i dont think it works like that, the IP address is the same, bar potentially one digit when on wifi, which eBay class as the same address

ricketty · #10 10-08-2014

Ip addresses issued by the router only exist within the network. EBay, PayPal and the rest of the world only see the ip address of the router, which is assigned by the isp

GreenBean · #11 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by wired

Has anyone actually been stung from 1-2 time accidental log in on a banned IP?

You logged onto the IP of a banned account? Has you been buying using that IP?

You may now have made a link.

wired · #12 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

You logged onto the IP of a banned account? Has you been buying using that IP?

You may now have made a link.

Yes, I was on my stealth account that clicked on to wifi, therefore using the same IP as my banned account that I buy things on to process some sales.

Fatal error I guess :( only time will tell...

GreenBean · #13 10-08-2014

I do hope you are OK.

Aye, time will tell.

Fingers crossed for you, wired.

Bunneh · #14 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

You logged onto the IP of a banned account? Has you been buying using that IP?

You may now have made a link.

He didnt log onto a banned account, he just used the same IP as a banned one.

wired · #15 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by Bunneh

He didnt log onto a banned account, he just used the same IP as a banned one.

yes thats what I did!

bjammin · #16 10-08-2014

Same here, I have done it before, and all was fine

GhostWhoWalks · #17 10-08-2014

I had this happen twice this week. As I was connecting with the phone data someone calls me and I forgot to turn off the wifi on my laptop and silly me for the first time I didn't use IP check on google.

PESMO · #18 10-08-2014

You will be fine. We all have done this at least once. You start to run into problems when a banned ebay account was just using that ip address a few min ago.

jjohnson777 · #19 10-08-2014

This why use notebook to connect to PayPal and keep it on airplane mode. Only use notebook to get on PayPal daily. Rest what do use desktop. Major life savor.

plumsake2 · #20 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by GhostWhoWalks

I had this happen twice this week. As I was connecting with the phone data someone calls me and I forgot to turn off the wifi on my laptop and silly me for the first time I didn't use IP check on google.

That sounds exactly like something I would do. So whenever I'm creating a new stealth, one of the first things I do is set IP Burger as my homepage. That way whenever I open my browser I'll instantly see if I am accidentally connected to my home network.

GhostWhoWalks · #21 10-08-2014

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Originally Posted by plumsake2

That sounds exactly like something I would do. So whenever I'm creating a new stealth, one of the first things I do is set IP Burger as my homepage. That way whenever I open my browser I'll instantly see if I am accidentally connected to my home network.

It was to log in to relist for me.

oompaloompa · #22 10-09-2014

OP you are assuming your IP is static, very few home networks are, they are normally dynamic, test it and see, you may have a new IP upon start-up anyway...

you are talking about a banned IP from a while back? unless you are static there is less of an issue or no issue. If your IP rotates by just 1 digit then the odds are bit worse suppose....

If you have a very low rotation dynamic IP or a static one, I would consider changing your wifi internet provider, instead of dreading it happen again...it would also gain you some new IPs.