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New Ebay account Suspended. What did I do Wrong?
 

Long story short, my ebay sellers account was suspended, created a new "Clean" account, new account was suspended.

recently set up an ebay account after a suspension. I used a prepaid Simon card with a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address, ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name, new IP address, a never used on ebay computer, changed my name, did not access my suspended account or open email from ebay. Pretty much everything to protect my new account. However I was again suspended within 24 hours of listing an auction.

I did not link the new account to my paypal account, and my auction was listed as "Paypal Accepted" and not "PayPal Preferred". Was I correct in assuming this means I was not linked to Paypal through Ebay?

I think my mistake was in making a few small purchases to gain feedback in which I DID pay through paypal through a "Pay Now" option.. Could this have caused my account to be caught and suspended?

I depend heavily on my Ebay income and need to get back on as soon as possible. I have even opened a new Bank account so I can create a new PayPal account. So will I still be able to accept Paypal as a payment option without fear of being suspended again? This is with my old Paypal account, I have not opened my new one yet.

Thanks in advance

Pay with paypal will possibly link you to your paypal. I didn't this and suspended within hours.

My suggestion: buy cheap items and do NOT pay. Those sellers are not likely interested in your payments. They'll leave feedback after you did.

Also, do NOT buy a lot cheap items if you are new. Open some accounts and wait a couple of weeks.

Did you pay using an email address connected to a suspended account? If so, next time try using the email you registered the new account under. I believe there is less chance for "linking". I wouldn't necessarily advise not paying. Even cheap items cost money to list and not everyone is Midas. But if it's a new account I guess you have not much to lose feedback-wise.

I was actually using a new email address that i created just for the new ebay account. But of course I had listed that new email address on my existing paypal account which was used and had been linked to the suspended account.

I am pretty certain that my new account became linked to my suspended account when I used "Pay Now" to make several purchases. I just haven't heard of any confirmed suspension being caused from that type of linking.

If this is true, it would confirm my earlier fears that this might happen as a result of registering for their last spring promotion. You may have to open a brand new account to work around this problem.

I am opening a new account as we speak. I will be listing only 1 small item to see how it goes. New IP, New Prepaid Debit Card, New Bank account number, New address, New name. The only differnce will be that I am not going to make any purchases prior to selling.

I will post my results. Wish me luck.

Good luck :)

So, JDarty6173 what was the result?
(Still wishing you luck:)

AndreasF

Yes, I tried, I bought items for $0.01-0.15 and didn't pay for any. Easily got 15 feedbacks. Then I sold 4 items and after that my account was suspended because one jerk sent a complaint about me to ebay saying that I was shill bidding. Yes, I was, but he had no way to know that. Well, ebay will lose my fees again :)

Old, but funny.

whenever ebay suspends it gives a reason.. did they say u r linked to previous suspended account? or something else

well modee.. this chap is confused if he got linked to previous account or if there was another cauze.. so its obvious if the account is linked to previous account u get a linked to previous suspended account message... isnt it???