Mission for selling! My Idea
My History
Had an ebay acount for six years buying things i personally needed and selling personal stuff i wanted to get rid of. The account is registered with all my personal details. Nothing previously was done for profit just a guy selling what he didnt want and getting stuff he wanted. You couldn't describe me as a proper for profit seller until recently.
Began selling my main item for around 4 months until i got VERO'd by sheer accident. No 3rd party is out to get me on this item just got vero'd by one of my bidders contacting ebay when he had a problem paying me, the ebay person fixed users issue saw my auction and deicded to VERO it.
So probably not going to get VERO'd in the future except in this one off kind of circumstance. I'm in a niche (but healthy) market but one where no other seller is selling my kind of item so no other sellers in a cuthroat market to dob me in either. Lucky me eh? But having got VERO'd I'm paranoid about loosing my 6 year old 100% feedback account. So enough of my history and onto my...
Account A refers to My original Account with all my details on
Account B refers to my new anaomous ⊗⊗⊗⊗ details account to do may main selling on
My Goals
To create a new ebay account purely for my main item sale and be completely anoyomous in my trading in the ebay domain.
To contine to use only the one pay pal account with both ebay accounts (preferable for me but is it possible?)
To stop using account B for my main item if i get a VERO on it and create another ⊗⊗⊗⊗ account (Account C and onwards) and move onto using that therefore never getting to the suspension stage which is far too much hastle to get out of.
Be able to port my ebay user ID over into the new account [Need citation (in wiki terminilolgy) from people here if this possible] thereby keeping a contiuned presence with the same name even though using different accounts to host this ebay name.
The Scenario to reach my goals
Sign up for a new ebay account (Account B) using a distintive ebay ID name which i intend to keep throughout my trading on a number of ⊗⊗⊗⊗ accounts (discussed further below). Using an address of a house nearby i don't live in and using ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name, phone no etc to set it up. (of course abiding by ip adress cookies all the usual ****e so as not to get detected)
Buy some stuff for the first month in (Account B) but pay for it by cheque or postal order if possible or if i have to buy using my one and only paypal account do it anonomusly. By that i mean before bidding on an item in account B so as to build up ⊗⊗⊗⊗ account feedback I contact seller of item i want to buy and say instead of Person B (the ⊗⊗⊗⊗ guy) who will actually bid, the payment will be done on a paypal account in Person A's details are you ok with that? and can you ship to account A's address if yes I bid. I Do not reveal the paypal account i will be paying with on the email sent from within ebay messages outgoing message to obtain right from seller to bid under this scenario.
My one and only paypal account which hasn't been associated with the new ebay account will pay for the item by me manually logging into paypal site not from link from within auction page on the won ebay listing but by manually inputting users email address and amount into paypal website. So ebay/paypal will not think accounts have a realtionship together unless they look through payment history in paypal account and see the email of people i paid and the amounts and manually by hand link them to my ebay history (some effort on there part and we know how little effort they like to spend getting to the bottom of things!).
After a month sign up for selling and choose verify identity by phone option to be able to start selling. Go to phone box near house i used to ⊗⊗⊗⊗ details of Account B take with me pocket PC phone. Using GPRS functionality of pocket pc phone and pocket internet explorer go to ebay website provoke website to call phonebox landline number get spoken verification code and input it into ebay website! Sorted!
List item for sale. Try and make it so that my auction listing shows paypal as an option. Find out if its possible to do this without suplying an email for paypal payment on listing page. If i cannot, have email as
donotpaymeUingthis@****ingemail.com. Setup outlook for plain text email so to avoid web beacons and other ebay crap and setup a rule so that when a message come in with the standard ebay item sold subject line one goes out immediatly to bidder. The Message sent out thanks bidder for buying my item has frequently asked questions page my mobile phone no for tech support (everything to show i'm legit) but also says make sure payments go to this paypal account instead! If outlook cannot do the reply use automate software and design script to run 24hrs a day on PC to grab the email address of bidder off ebay Auction won email.
Sit smug in the knowledge I'm getting paid on a paypal account therefore attracting most bidders. But no explicit easily seen link between my ebay account i'm using and the payypal account I'm accepting payments on.
If i get VERO'd i begin my exit strategy which is to mothball the ⊗⊗⊗⊗ account for a while. I change the ebay user ID to some other name (any other name dones't matter what) all this still possible on a non suspended account rember!! This free's up my distintive ebay name i was using on the VERO'd account. And i move it over onto Account C the 3rd ⊗⊗⊗⊗ account already setup in the wings with new email address etc and change its ebay ID name to my now available distintive name so i continue in the same vain and i have continuity of presence. Users can still find me with my old name (This possible anyone?)
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