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Did i get luck?
 

So yesterday i was on craigslist and saw someone selling their ebay account for 3K

i had nothing to do so i replied to him and offered 1.5k

he said ok, so at first i thought it was a scam, because he mentioned he owed 335 in fees

told me it was unlimited limts account, so then i got more suspicous.
asked him y he is selling it, told me he needs money for his illness.

at then end i was like if i dont take this risk, someone else will. and i know paypal has buyer protection, so i felt a little relived

got the account, it really did have unlimited limts and had 12000 feedback from 2001

only downside was to pay the ebay fees of 335

personally i think it was a great deal, wanted to know what you guys think?

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Just know that the account could get limited at any moment, even from the first listing and then you'd be out near 2k for nothing. So overall its a very risky transaction, but wish you luck.

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Not a good idea IMO

Do you plan on offering PayPal as payment? If so you will not be able to add a new PayPal to the eBay account.

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Yep i agree with James, you never know if his paypal account is limited etc.. which makes your account pretty worthless as there will always be a link :(

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listed and sold my first item as well, and i paid him with paypal too, but if his paypal was limited, y would he want to accept paypal as payment?

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could be a different paypal account ?

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His PayPal could also get limited at any time in the future.

Either way you still cannot link a new PayPal in with the eBay.

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sorry i just read that i said yesterday, i meant to say last week,

and i can understand , where you guys are coming from.
just going to hope for the best,

the account didnt look like he sold any vero items either. or have bad dsr

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do you guys mean linking the paypal, by going into account settings and then manually linking it? because i never really do it that way
i usually put the paypal address at payment option only

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That is enough to link

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well i still got my buddy paypal for another 40 days to contact, if anything happens down the road

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Good Luck.

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Good luck! You may have to establish this as a business account to benefit from the limit.

All accounts can be limited or suspended including those bought from the forum. Use your stealth knowledge and you should be fine.

Until you change the passwords and security questions, the account is still uncertain.

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thanks everyone.

is there a big diffrence from a business and personal ebay though?

i know for paypal, business and personal makes a diffrent, not to sure about ebasy side

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Do the math, if your monthly fees for the business account is less than the insertion fees, then it saves a lot.

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isnt that the same as applying for an ebay store? lower fees on personal account

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Best of luck OP - know stealth well - make backup accounts because this account could either go down...or be taken back...be careful

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good buy i think

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Until the account goes belly up or he doesn't make his investment back.....

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Never ask a leading quesion like that unless you can deal with the truth of the replies.

:nono:

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It is a very risky buy.

There is no guarantee the account will be restored after the fees are paid.

It may even have been a hacked account.

These types of accounts sometimes get the fees paid, allowed to trade, then pulled for not well defined reason later.

There's no guarantee of buyer protection with paypal even for the OP.

No, it is not a good buy.

It's an easy way out to get an account that has too high a risk of backfiring.

:peace:

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Risky... especially since it is not a reputable market place for accounts??
Honestly.. you could get good accounts with good limits here...

Ask some of the sellers here around.. They could probably help if you need an account with more than usual limits.

You should not have to be paying someone elses debt or even worrying that your funds at one point will get held.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes

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Did pay the fees and sold a couple of items, everything went smooth

I think if he really wanted to scam, he would of not even gave the password, or might of not even have an account,
After all not everyone can get to 12k feedback, without really taking care of an account.

It seems as almost everybody has pessimistic views, and thats great for managing risk.

But as long as you have something to cover you, i think risk should always be taken, thats where the new path starts

You never know whats at the end of the road, until you take it

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So , you created a new paypal account and are using that as payment, or is this a paypal account that you have been using for a little while

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Did you get any supplier info out of the deal, and I'm not asking specifics, just wondering

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I am using a business paypal account, that i created a year ago.
And i wasnt actually interested in what he was selling so i never asked about his supplier, he was selling speakers and other music related things.
Which im totally not intrested at all,
Mostly i think if your not selling personal stufff, everything in wholesale can be bought from alibaba or aliexpress

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did something similar to this way way back before finding this site... but actually bought the account off eby before eby banned selling accts on their site.
Its definitely risky but so are a lot of things. Got to take it slow and easy.

Ofcourse only risk what you don't mind losing. If 1500 was ur life savings then no its not a smart move.

Change info on the acct then add matching pp. And take things slow.
:ranger:

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Good luck.

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Hey, I hope you got lucky. Before buying, my concern would be if they had gotten a bunch of MC999's and suspensions on the account and wanted to sell while it was still alive. But, now that you are in, you can see that in the message history. It was definitely a risky proposition.

One thing though, I found out the hard way that Paypal won't protect you on something like that. They'll only give your money back on physical goods. If you paid from your credit card or bank through Paypal ( did not use Paypal funds to purchase ), then your credit card company or bank will protect you ). I learned that from being scammed by Sandy D. I was SOL for a "service" payment to her through Paypal's protection, but my bank gave me back the money.

Hope you do well with it.

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Yep I agree here, same situation happened with me

Hopefully when you purchased thru paypal u used a linked credit card and not your Debit card, but either way I think you will be covered

But with credit cards I find it much easier to do a charge back , no paper work just little info online and you will get your money back

So hopefully you used a credit card with paypal when purchasing and not available funds

I never had any luck with switching up paypal accounts but than again the couple times I tried this was because my paypal account was limited and not my eBay

So hopefully his paypal account is still good, and maybe that is why this may work, and If you backed urself up with the way u paid than I see it as a good risk, but if u paid cash that was in paypal and there was a issue with his account , than this could be too high risk


Just go slow, another issue is if your items are completely different than what was normally sold on this account , that could raise flags, but go slow, and good luck

Also, is there any paypal holds on funds or are you getting instant payments available right away??

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Thanks for all the info guys, really appreciate it.

I did use my credit card attached to the account.

And all payments are directly coming in, this is a paypal that that had been in use over a year ago

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You are being naive.

If you use paypal for anything, the account can be limited.

Avoid changing info as that flags the account as well.

I would be a lot happier if you asked before you got the account rather than after spending the money.

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Lets see where the future takes the account, il keep you guys posted

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The good thing is you used a credit card , so if something goes bad, you will be able to get the funds back

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Mostly i think if your not selling personal stufff, everything in wholesale can be bought from alibaba or aliexpress[/QUOTE]

Lot of risky goods there - be careful