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Anybody use 1 Shipstation account for all Stealth Accounts?
 

I am curious if anyone has successfully had luck using one shipstation account with Multiple Ebay Stealth Accounts?

I saw a few discussions on it in the forums, but didn't see whether anyone decided to give it a try yet.

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I have. And it does seem to work - HOWEVER:

All of my important accounts have only 1 eBay and 1 Amazon hooked to 1 ShipStation.

7 months ago, I tried setting it up with 3 new eBay accounts and 3 new Amazon accounts. All of the accounts are currently fine. THE TRUE TEST, HOWEVER, WILL COME WHEN ONE OF THE ACCOUNTS GOES DOWN! The thing is, often someone will cut corners or do something they shouldn't and nothing bad immediately happens, so they have a false sense of security. Because when accounts are running fine, eBay usually leaves them alone. It is only after an account goes down that we find out whether the method REALLY WORKS or not.

So, on balance, I would have to say I DON'T KNOW if it will work. It CAN be set up, but until an account gets suspended and the other 2 keep running, I won't know for sure.

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Thanks for the feedback. That is a good point. I probably wouldn't have thought about it like that. It does make you wonder. I am not really sure what info shipstation sends to ebay when they do their third party tokens or whatever.

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Each token would have to go through the stealth account setup. Doing them all from the same computer/IP would DEFINITELY link the accounts.

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I agree with you on that.

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No, the ban doesnt link any of the accounts. I have unintentionally tested this with numerous amazon.com, amazon.ca, ebay accounts.

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Good to know. That is kind of what I thought too.

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i have numerous accounts on one SS and have had accounts go down with no link to the others. 100% ok

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I use one shipstation account with around 7 stand alone stealth ebay accounts, 2 amazon accounts, 2 amazon.ca accounts. Never had one issue. I set up the initial link with a VMware setup. Had quite a few Amazon accounts get suspended but it never affected any of the other accounts.

It works.

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so what separates this token-grabbing program from others that do similar functions?

like: http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-tr...-can-link.html

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Id like to know exactly what you mean by this.....do you mean switch into each stealth account and updated your shipstation account from within your stealth computer user account? ie: dont go to one user account/one ip and add all of your stealth ebay accounts at once, split up and do it from within each stealth?

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my last question sounded really dumb....i have yet to set up an account thats why i asked...now i realize they send you a token within your ebay account and you verify on ebay and revert back to shipstation website.....hahaha very sorry for that dumb sounding question!!!

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Oh. So do you access ship station from each individual machine and print those orders from there? Or did you access from on MEGA MAIN FRAME COMPUTER where you do all your printing?

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Keep in mind that it takes one software malfunction, or change from their tech team and it could EASILY link accounts.

So to actually back up Jeff, its best to only keep 1 strong account on 1 shipstation. I mean, if an account is making you at least 2K, you'd be stupid not to make everything you do on that account separate from the rest.

Its a business expense anyways...

But generally speaking, as it stands right now, you can add as many as you want without linkage, but your relying on Shipstation's api and all the tech stuff to never glitch or malfunction. I think we should all know that websites, especially sites like Shipstation can be prone to glitches, and change in software from their tech team (i.e updates)

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Been 2 years since you wrote this jeffweico, shipsation still working out for you?

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I have a couple of my smaller accounts on one shipstation account for over a year now and haven't had any issues. But just to be precautious I put my big accounts on a separate shipstation account

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Separate SS accounts was a wise choice. It seems that SS sneaky shares the IP/cookies to AZ (possible with eB, Etsy, etc.). Here is some proof:

http://i.imgur.com/Bhx812L.png

From their privacy page:

If they were registered in Europe - Luxembourg - they would be required by the law to provide a FULL LIST and with EXACT DETAILS that are disclosed and shared to all of the 3rd party companies. But that's not the case with all of the Non-EU firms… generallly they can share the info with anyone and none of the sellers well know this.

:juggle:

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So now you're saying ship station isn't safe?

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I'm not saying this. Someone else from Facebook said this when his acc was banned just because he have just logged in into a shipstation acc that was used on a banned AZ acc.

So I link InkFrog - it's definitely safer to keep separately those kind of logins even when those tools (Shipstation, IF, etc.) provides "multi-accounts" (eB/AZ/Etsy) options.

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Can't believe everything said on facebook - delusional sometimes

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Once you've setup the tokens from the respective stealth accounts, logging into shipstation from any random computer at any time should be no concern right?

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correct... they all use tokens. i still have a outright account that i use to help combine all my fees to coincide with my quickbooks. I've had stealth paypals,m ebay accounts etc.. all go down and none of the other accounts were linked i'm talking 25+ accounts. Same with inkfrog , Just follow same stealth rules when linking it to shipstation. Add token with new ip in that user account etc.. same ****, different story. Just don't do anything stupid like... forget to disconnect from wifi before switching accounts. etc.. etc..

And then sometimes you get lucky if you don't do it often.

If you follow stealth rules you'll be fine with inkfrog/shipstation/outright etc..

I've had inkfrog for years and no issues and that includes all types of suspensions from ebay.

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Been using shipstation for 2.5 years. Have used over 100 accounts including ebay/amazon and none were linked together.

Even in this amazon and shipstation linking theory non of the accounts were ever affected.

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I have my own website and I stealthily want people to visit my website via my stealth accounts.

I was thinking of using a branded tracking page and also the shipment confirmation email that links to my website. This is sent directly to the users email, not to any of the selling platforms.

I'm sure there is some risk here, but it's a valuable marketing tool.

What do you guys think?

Lastly, is it safe to use Ship Station's automatic feedback?

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1) Put packing slip with your site info and perhaps offer a discount coupon
2) Yes, shipstation can send different messages. I send the one where it states their tracking info, address etc and at the end I put down my site info as well as logo and a discount code

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So you do marketing across your different stealth accounts via the shipping confirmation email?

I usually add a business card to the package, but if you've never had a problem putting it on the packing slip I might go there too.

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That and in shipstation you can modify packing slip with html code. I have requested some people to do it for me, so it looks more than professional. I also print on my coupon code for the site.

So, some of my sales are just break even sales to get more sales for sell-through rate for ebay as well as to gain potential customers for the website.

I personally throw away all flyers and rarely look at them but the thing is coupon and site are on the packing slip, so you cant get rid of it.

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Based on this thread I am thinking about a new plan for my eBay account creation and I am curious to hear whether you think it is safe.

What I am currently doing: Using one ship station account and manually creating orders for each item that sells and linking none of my eBay accounts to it (I had one account on it but it was banned 3 months ago). This is of course horribly inefficient.

New eBay accounts would be created and all linked to the same shipstation account. Once they reach a certain point (i.e. 90 days old or 2,000 items per month limit or something like that) they will graduate up to having their own shipstation account and be removed from the shared one.

Would be okay to have all of my accounts switch to different shipstations once they get big enough or would that be a red flag for eBay?

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They don't want to lose customers and get a bad reputation. I doubt they would intentionally get you linked. They are not dummies...

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You are still importing orders from your ebay accounts to 1 shipstation account, which is linking according to your logic.

You dont think that once you link to 1 shared shipstation account and you suddenly change each ebay account to each shipstation account would case a link?

I am still running about 15 accounts on my shipstation and all are pretty big sellers and havent had a problem for 2-3 years now.

Of course it is your choice to do so but shipstation is not just a tool for pushing orders or notifying customers, it is more functional than you think.

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Hi there, I just posted a question regarding linkage with 3rd party software. I wanted to get your insight since it sounds like you have had a lot of experience with these :)
https://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-d...tml#post975968