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Using ebay from foreign location
 

Guys,

Any posts talking about using VPN in a country to sell items in the US? If I have a bank account and everything in US, can I do it? What about an issue with the item location??

Anyone? Please HELP!

Here's the problem. You are accessing THIS forum with a detectable IP. Your flag is USA but in fact you are in Thailand.

That is something ebay/paypal will pick up quickly. If you want to go the right way, it's very complex. VPN is not workable, imo.

Tell us what you have as regards to looking as if you are in the USA... :spy:

oh yea...I just noticed that my flag is USA. I have used ibVPN service to watch TV show from USA. I do not login right now but why does it locate me there??....

That's why my Thai account is limited. T_T HELPPP

Do you a better way to get ebay and paypal up again in Thailand? I just lost mine 2 days ago T_T

you can check if a proxy is detected via various software or online ip checkers....so check yourself and then you will know for sure.

I did check with whatismyipaddress.com. It locates me in Bangkok, Thailand, which is correct but in here....I have the US flag.

how good is selling in Thailand ebay with pp ??

You have US flag because that is the one you picked? you can change your flag under user CP....

vpn is tough, people here do not share companies with good unique working vpn as they are hard to find. VPS are bit more expensive and they are cutting way down on amount of unique IPs they are giving out nowadays.....

a good unique IP should show as in the country you want to be in and no proxies detected...

Selling things on eBay from Thailand is slow...I still don't know the best way to pass the new seller limitation, 10 items a month. Anyone know faster ways?

oompaloompa - Yes. I moved from NY to Bangkok and didn't change the flag lol

I was selling ****, ahem, quality items :) from China using my UK account and another one I made when I arrived. I had no problems, I occasionally used a VPN but that was only to speed things up when my normal connection was being ****.

I had no problems at all with the original account. The second one (set up with a UK address, but made when in China) needed documents, id etc sending but that was no problem.

About the item location - I used to lie. I left the location as the UK and then mentioned in the listing that I was sending from China. You can get busted by ebay for this - but I never had any problems with it.

Then I got a **** load of vero warnings and suspensions and that crap so I changed my location to China just incase someone reported me for lying about the item location. It made little difference to be honest, I was still selling a fair amount of stuff.

So basically avoid VPN's, they are not necessary. What is necessary is the documentation to send to them to back up who you are and what your permanent address is.

That's my experience anyway.

Oh and about the 10 item limit - there's no way around it apart from opening multiple accounts.

Have you tried opening a legit thai account? I have tried and failed miserably trying to get a legit Chinese account. I have Chinese friends who also can't get accounts.

Thanks for the great info, FizzyFish!!!

That's exactly what I am looking for.
So...You are using UK account with local IP address in China and you never had problems with it. Then you edited the item location to China and it has worked so far. Now all of accounts, VCC and stuff are based in China. Am I right???

No probs man - that's what this place is for right!?

You are right on the first two, not the last.

I have only just got up and running with stealth - but I have based my new account in the UK again. The main reason is, if you go to the China or HK ebay to set up an account then you get a Chinese page that can't be translated easily with any software. So my plan (actually advice from an ebay employee!) was to set up an UK account and then change the address lock stock to my/a Chinese address.

I haven't done that yet. I am sticking with the UK address for my 1st stealth cos I have documentation for that.

I will probably make my next account using my/a China address. I have no experience of actually doing that and selling.

I know that it is possible to change the address to any other country you like - cos I did it to several other accounts that I was (unsuccessfully) trying to get up and running before I found this site.

Should item location same ebay country account

No. I don't think so. Item location and the country where the account is located can be different.

Loads of people do drop shipping - Account based in the UK, items shipped from China etc.

yeh when i used to sell on ebay, had an account originally opened in UK and was shipping from china.

Although when listing the item i did put the location down as Hong kong and changed my ebay address as mainland china...had no issues with this..