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how can i check the avs on my new cards?
 

anyone know how to do the avs check on a new card without having a merchant account?

Excuse my ingorance

what does avs mean?

avs is the address verifaction system. it's usually your name and residential billing address listed on a credit card.

An AVS check is primarily a numeral verification. that is..the numbers attached to your street address, your zip code and naturally the credit card numbers. the name is rarely ever checked.

What new cards are you talking about? If you talking gift cards there is no AVS

cards that are coming with a new dba bank account. i had to go to a couple of banks before i could get one that would not put my actual name on the debit card, just the dba name. i am not sure what address they are going to use though. i also did order a prepay from western union, they asked for my ssn# though. not sure if that would be a problem.

When doing a DBA account, banks should not put your name on debit card. It should only be your DBA name. I would have another talk with them banks.

they kept saying as a sole proprietor my name has to be on the card. if i had used an "inc." it would have worked easier.

thats weird. Everyone I know has their dba on it

well who knows, maybe i was acting suspicious, lol

Well I take that back. they had their dba on their checks

yeah, see. my checks are coming with the dba on it too. luckily i found a bank that would play ball and use the dba on card with my initials on the second line. i also ordered one with the initials right after the dba, on the same line

Which bank was that?

****************. you have to sign up for 4 accounts and put $100 in each one. savings and checking business and savings and checking personal. after 24 hours you can take the $400 back out. plan to spend a good hour there. go to an actual branch not the supermarket kiosk ones. they also have a feature that "unlinks" the business accounts from the personal account. that way you can transfer the money from paypal to the business account then transfer it all to your personal account and they can never touch it. short of a court order of course.

i hope i am not giving up too much info here

nah your fine..

Good I already bank with them
now I just need to set up three more accounts

hehe can the extra 3 all be DBAs for three different PPs :D

you're going to need 2 (1 checking + 1 savings) per dba. since you already have a personal account with them the rest should be easy for you.

Did they ask for business id?

yes. you have to get a dba certificate from your local county clerk's office. cost me $25. then you have a month to run an add in the local paper or the clerk will cancel your dba. they will give you a paper explaining all the in's and out's. dba might be the way to go. i think i am going to try to open a paypal account with the dba info. have not yet received the debit cards from the bank. i will let you know how it goes.

the dba name i picked sounds like it could be a person's name or a business name. i mixed some vietnamise with a little spanish and came up with something similar to: "Jun Expeda" something like that should work out fine.

Does the dba name has to do with your buisness?

does not have to i don't think. hell i got away with a weird one! has nothing to do with anything! on the dba request form you fill out at the clerk's office just put that you are trying to open a mail order business. the bank didn't really care. they were just happy to sell four new accounts to one person. i think it is a bad idea to use a name that can only be a name. for example: "john smith". that would be hard to explain. try to combine words from different languages to make a two word dba. for example "pho ngyuen" that would be a name for an asian noodle house or someone's actual name.

hey modee,


if i were to buy an ebay account from someone how would i pay the fees? vcc different from the one used to set up the seller's account?

Opps sorry, I meant gift cards

But basically you just use another VCC or even your own credit card and do a 1 time payment.

I have used my own credit card with my real name on it to pay my Ebay fees for 3 different accounts and my Ebay accounts is still good. Ebay is so stupid. This miss the most obvious stuff sometimes.

Well my credit cards i use for payment is not registered with any account. I just use my real real credit with my real name on it to pay for the fees.

do you use that one real credit card to pay for different ebay accounts?

seems like using my real one would be dangerous.

Well, I don't have a CC and don't expect to anytime soon:(

Could I run and get a gift card each month and and do the "one-time-pay" that way?

I would think that EB would get suspicious, but they see smoke where there is no fire all of the time and then be in the middle of an inferno and ask to put a sweater on:p

yes as I already stated, i do use the 1 real credit card to pay for my fees on all 3 of my ebay accounts

update:

seller's account is open and i am selling one item. paypal account is open (personal not premier) they did their two deposits so i am verified. eb has somehow linked to the paypal account i opened as it shows in the listing i accept paypal. maybe i am wrong but the paypal sign is in my listing.

once i sell this first item i will list 2-3 more before i start selling items similar to what i was on my suspended account.

let's see how it goes.

Spike you shouldn't get linked. There are too many people on Ebay selling the same products as you..

It will be a cool breeze for you to stay on ebay

yeah i do agree chris hanson (you handsome *******). normally i would never link them. but this is the account i am experimenting with. got all the dba info set up to where i might slip by. i plan not to really sell much for 30 days.

Good Luck. I'm confident you should be able to stay on with your products

thanks!

no ⊗⊗⊗⊗ on this one. just the overstock crap i have sitting in storage.