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eBay is now calling new account holders??
Not surprise, i got a call from ebay.co.uk last December when i opened a new account then, i use SKYPE softphone to answer, and i thought i passed. But shortly after phone conversation, account got suspended for "abusing ebay"....did fax work some times, still no sign of reinstatement.

pumbaa3736, because you used skype.

what are you guys selling if you need to open 3 or moreaccounts in 1 day?

it doesn't matter what you sell if you can list it for free ;-) 100 accounts wont be enough ;-)

i found a toll free fowarding and used it to verfiy the 3rd account i made and listed so far no phone calls from ebay! and 1 out of 8 items shows up when i search by seller.

I don't know what you guys are doing wrong. I'm creating accounts every day and never get a phone call.

i havent tried a 2nd pc yet to see if that has something to do with it

what i do is
1. buy a prepaid visa card
2. clear cookies and use firefox
3. get a new wireless ip by driveing around and picking up on ones wireless internet
4. use a aol email
5. get a address from whitepages.com

this is all i do and it ask to verfiy my phone every time no matter what i try to sale

what method do u use to make new accounts?

now all new accounts will need to verify paypal once you list your 3rd auction on that account.

i registered.
verified phone number online.
listed 3 auctions.
then it gave me this msg, saying can't post more until get verified.
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i went to live chat and was told to open and verify a paypal account.
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and she sad
I can't find the address you gavein the system.
this happened sance yesterday. I dont think it is random so you better chek it out.

seems eGay is trying to force new american user to use there gay paypal system just like aussie's

still dosent solve the phone verfiy problem cause i did open and verfied a paypal and still had to verfiy my phone but after words i got phone verfiy i was able to list 8 listings.

I think now would be the good time for google to lauch a auction severice cause ebay is getting weaker and weaker with all these new bulls**t rules

Preach. Ebay is a trying a little to hard to make buyers happy when majority of them was satisfied with eBay's service to begin with. What really sucks is that eBay decided to move forward and left smaller buyers/sellers who made the web auction ever so popular behind. I wouldn't be surprised if another corporation (Google) makes another auction site to rival eBay, a company who has a better sense of what a community is all about.

ebay is getting so strict soon even legit people will be penalized for stupid reasons.

legit people will be penalized. They don't understand that they cannot stop us. They don't understand the more innocent people they suspend the more people will get mad and want to revenge and the more $ they lose. Soon people will be collecting paypal $ and abandoning paypal accounts. why should they send products if paypal can take the $ back. they have brot this on them self with their way of dealing with sellers. so many innesent people have been suspended probably more then scammers.

Dude that's what they want. They want to get rid of the small sellers on ebay.

This occurred last night. I had a 1 month old account. Added a CC to create a seller account. I turned off checkout, PP preferred, etc. in ebay preferences. In the listing I included a valid email addy that was not registered on PP. When I went to list 1st item, I was forced through the phone verification routine. After phone verified (I used Toll Free and Local City Phone Numbers - Worldwide) I was allowed to list the item. I then listed 4 more items at .99 each, total of 5. I list 5 items on new accounts so I can build feedback to 5 so I can list fixed price listings. I did not have to link a verified PP account. I don't know what I did different, but I didn't have to jump through that hurdle.

Still no phone verification here. I feel left out.

imjustme - you should be happy, im guessing your located somewhere in asia, and ebay is not going to pay for long distance calls.

I use US accounts to sell, too. I even log into them with Japanese IPs and use ⊗⊗⊗⊗ US phone numbers. No calls on there either, I just listed about 10 items on a new account yesterday and another 5 on yet another new one today. Nothing.

imjustme - then theres only one explanation...
YOUR LUCKY =)
lol

You guys think it might be because of last name used on account as ebayhateluv once stated maybe he's register in San Jose with a Wong last name might give that a try.:D

What i think it is is your ip. I think programmer took all risky non payers and looked from what range ip they came from. then put dots on these risky areas. so in these risky areas they will be looking in very closely. Mostly these areas are in usa. What i suggest is to change your ip range for example by dialing to different area code that may fix the problem.. Let me know if anything changes because it is important to stay together on this one.

lol your saying if you use a last name like "wong" they assume your chinese and can't speak english so they don't even bother to call you?

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This may be a coincidence, but I regularly use Japanese names for US accounts and never get a call :D