I have done extensive experimentation, old paypal accounts are dead!!
I tried every possible permutation of reusing my existing Paypal accounts. Every one results in suspension of any associated EBAY account.
Note, that Paypal will let you use the accounts all you want for anything BUT EBAY. You can use it for web sales from any other source just fine. Paypal will not interfere.
But any EBAY account associated with any Paypal account that was associated with a prior suspended EBAY account will be linked and suspended. The reasoning varies in the suspension notification depending on how you linked the account, but the result is always the same.
The Paypal accounts are cross linked in any way they can link them. Common bank accounts, common mailing addresses, common credit cards, etc. So, if you have multiple Paypal accounts, and Paypal makes a link (this happened to me), not only will your accounts in the first Paypal account come down, all EBAY accounts associated with all linked Paypal accounts will come down.
Don't give Paypal any grief. Any complaint and they will alert EBAY about your account. This is what happened to me. All my accounts came down after I asserted my dissatisfaction with a judgment against me on a Paypal complaint. Within one day of sending my complaint, all my accounts came down. All intertwined across those linked Paypal accounts. Accounts not associated with Paypal were untouched.
Do NOT use your paypal accounts for new EBAY accounts period if they have ever been linked to any suspended EBAY account.
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