I am concerned about a new account I am creating. After being suspended on my first eBay account recently I went ahead and created a new eBay account and new email address under a different IP on my laptop at home which was all fine.
Problem (I think) might be at work where I logged into my work computer to check my new email account.
I forgot that on that same computer at work I was checking my old email address (which was associated with the recently suspended account) and I'm afraid that eBay may have linked my old account with my new account because I checked my email on the same computer IP from work.
I cannot log into eBay from my work computer though because it's blocked by the company firewalls and security etc.
Although I can receive email from eBay in my yahoo and gmail inbox at work, I cannot access eBay even through the email they send (I tried clicking on the eBay email but all I get is "access denied").
On my new email account (gmail) I changed the settings to "do not display images" but only after I had already opened a couple of promotional emails from eBay in the new gmail inbox.
Since I cannot access eBay from my work computer, does this mean they cannot place the little "Web Beacons" through my email account or they can?
To make a long story short, I am thinking of opening a different eBay account now after I realized there might be a link created between this new account and the suspended account.
Is it going to be a problem if I open a different account with a slight variation of the new one? i.e. John Smith was the new one and now I will have to create Jon Smith because of the potential linking through my email?
Am I being overly paranoid about this? Remember, I cannot login to eBay from work at all but I CAN
receive eBay emails in my inbox at work.
Fact is I never logged in to either one of these ebay accounts from the same IP but I did check two different emails (one yahoo and the other gmail) from the same IP at work.
Does checking my emails on the same IP at work create a link between the old suspended account and the new one?
Do I really need to create yet another new account or am I ok leaving it just the way it is?
I hope this isn't too confusing, but I would really appreciate any help/advice on this. Thank you
Potential eBay account linking scenario?? 
