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Re: Stealth may be dead
 

I don't think it's dead, we just need to be more crafty ;)

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-No,a person can lose his buying privilege but not his selling privilege - a seller in rural MExico filed too many INR on cheap trinklets he bought on Ebay,they were sent with no tracking .
In his area,any package coming from USA must be valuable ,so theft is common !
Ebay suspended his buying privilege as he is a hazard to the Ebay seller community !! )

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

ebay have too many sellers , buyers are always welcome

they may suspend buyers too but that would be for suspicious buying activity , for example buying high risk items or using suspicious payment methods , especially cards from entities that are abused often , like payoneer for example

otherwise if it is a regular buying activity limited in size in terms of $$$ they do not mind

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

Buying with virtual VISA cards sold by scammers who steal our cc data to buy these cards and resell them at deep discount quickly before we find out.
There was a time AMZN would not accept its own virtual prepaid VISA cards !

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

I think it will no longer be possible to create many accounts and treat them lightly, as it was before. If you block them, nothing will open the next one, or like others, there were about 50 active accounts

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

you mean you lost 50?

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I have lost well over 50 accounts in the process of creating accounts. All of the lost accounts have been since January of this year.

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

I will say this forum helped me become very successful seller 20 years ago. The Stealth Book helped me personally tremendously, however I will say this was 15-20 years ago.

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I think the problem is no longer in the book, but in the AI ​​that eBay itself uses.

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Correct - and over time some tools and resources cited in the book have become dated and easily identifiable :(

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All about learning on the job these days, I'm always trying new methods and strategies until the code is cracked. 6 months later, there is a new code to crack haha, all part of the game.

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

interesting how you crack ebay’s AI

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

Trial and error and obsessive research.

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

have you cracked it recently?

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

It seems that way, I have made 5 personal accounts within the last 72 hours all have been able to list without the re-activate error, all have £38k/5k item monthly limits.

Just getting sales now and slowly building them up, so far so good!

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

any chance your willing to share what your doing differently?

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

Im with the above posters, its definitely harder than it was in pre-2022 years to easily create stealth accounts. And you definitely cant create then in the same volume you used to be able to (eg double digits per day).

It was giving me major issues a few months back, every new account I made was getting suspended. But I think I figured it out since the past handful of accounts Ive made have all had no issue.

All I can say is, take it slow, and be very deliberate. Focus on creating accounts that get 5k+ limits right off the bat. If you get some 15/month limit, most likely it'll either be suspended, or you'll have to call in to 'reactivate it' which is hit or miss (maybe 50% success rate).

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

Unfortunately I cannot. I hate to gatekeep. However it has taken me months on end, nobody was quick to assist me regarding this.

I'm sure many others veteran sellers are also clued in on how this works but didn't care to share either.

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I know many who have such limits specifically for UK accounts. A lot depends on the country where the account is opened. So it may seem like you are cracking something, but in reality it is different and those who read this from another country where it is more difficult to open an account think that you have a success story. I also had such accounts with such limits until the end of 2024 and in January 2025 everything changed. I think that there is a ratio of purchases and sales, if purchases are less than sales by some set coefficient then why do you need sellers? Another thing could be AI that sees parallels with similar accounts, including behavior. I don't believe that one person can crack a security system worth millions that has been created by countless IT specialists for years.

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I used to fully agree with you a few months back, thinking it was all down to eBay managing sellers to fit the demand or lack thereof of buyers. But honestly now I think that’s mostly BS.

There are ways to get high limit accounts without triggering reactivation or bans, it just comes down to figuring out the right strategy. I’ve been testing non stop and finally found something that works.

At this point, I only have experience working with eBay UK, and for a lot of people it's been proving quite hard to be successful there nowadays. However, I genuinely think I could make it work in any country, it's all about being persistent in testing new methods.

Re: Stealth may be dead
 

I posted a few comments above you about how I recently found some success in creating new accounts. Does your method allow you to create in large volumes (eg multi accounts per day)? Or are you moreso going about at a slower rate (for me, right now, 1 account/day is working without issue and I havent tried to push it since Im happy with my recent method)

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Since finding success with my new method, I’ve created five accounts over the past seven days. I wouldn’t consider that high volume but everyone's interpretation is different, although three were made just yesterday alone.

So far, it seems scalable. All accounts have active listings with no hiccups. The oldest ones already have completed sales and successful payouts with no issues at all. I plan to keep scaling in case eBay changes things again.