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Can someone explain Webproxy servers?
 

I'm curious about using these Proxy servers but have a few questions hopefully someone can answer. Are you given a different IP address every time you use these servers or are you assigned a specific IP when you join? Also if anyone could suggest a site w/ a low cost, I would really appreciate it. You have all been very helpful w/ past issues. Thanks.

Well...
 

I'm not sure how proxys works...but I was using my Australian eBay account while I was living in France for 3 years. I opened up various ebay accounts in France that got suspended and they never linked my french account back to my Australian account so I never got suspended on my Australian account! I was using Wireless DSL Modem.

I came back to Australia though and I was still using another French account, and they suspended my french account and all my Australian accounts.

There must be different laws in the EU on how they look up your IP address and proxys, ect...

nice thread on proxies... well ive been dabbling into proxies and yes its hard to find good services even paid ones that work well, some proxies dont wont very well when it comes to certain websites.

ive been trialing TOR services with privoxy installed and running.

has anyone else had any experience with it ?

ive managed to do a IPLOCATOR check that modee thankfully gave and yes it does come up with a FALSE in PROXY ? however it still gives a location like country, origin, state, etc..etc...

Another program i was considering using was PROXY SWITCHER mentioned before, im not fussed if i have to pay for it, im well aware that using a proxy from another country can get you banned eg. proxy is for GERMANY but your in AUSTRALIA, however i believe PROXY SWITCHER allows you to choose a proxy and keep changing to a proxy in your country.

wouldnt this not give red flags on ebay if your ip changes, BUT its always located in the same country ?

cheers.

About VPN.
 

When I read ebay stealth and search in this forum, I see people talking about VPN. And I want to know is there anyone using VPN to hide IP ? And your account is running good?

VPN Sounds Clever, but I don't understand it fully...
 

I know it is for security purposes like a proxy. EBAY is down on proxies and have figured them out. Any account coming in on most of the free or cheap proxies out there are taken down on EBAY. They no like.

Now, if a VPN could vary the IP like dial-up so that EBAY could not pin it down, that could work, especially if the IP could be moved about the country, so people could be from wherever they want to be.

This is an excellent question, and a great new thread/idea. Would love to hear more.

Would using AOL give a different ip each time you use the pc, so be o.k to use for fresh a/c?

HELP! I am new here.
Earlier this evening I was reading some post (from today?) about AOL no longer being proxy. I went away to check mine, and YES the AOL IS GIVING THE TRUE IP AT IPBURGER!.
Now I can't find that thread.

Can someone guide me to it?
Thanks, Steve

They give you a same IP everytime?

hingwhh, I checked just now and got a proxy IP, but uring the day it was always the real one.
What to think?

Proxies is a bad idea for ebay, why? Because you need elite proxies (anonymous proxies) and all proxies have the port address which is generally "80/8080/3128/8888" eBay can see this and also the proxy Header and then redflag the account. If you can remove these (which it is possible) then eBay/Paypal cannot tell if you are from a proxy or not :P

example would be:
24.118.182.97:9656
81.155.146.78:33056

you can do a whois check on both of these and they are from REAL ISP in the UK, the beauty of these proxies is that they dont use common ports as I mentioned.

Check this out if you use a proxy...
 

even AOL.com broadband.

Check IP address. IP check. Find IP address. IP finder. Java IP Test. Static IP address. Hide ip address. Change IP address. Changing IP address. Anonymous IP address.

It sees right through the proxy.

Great Joke.
 

Oh Well Done! I have had my Friday laugh. Your post has made me crack up
laughing. Errr, have you read the forum thoroughly? One or two threads &
posts about this fact already.:p

Really? OK...
 

Can you point me to a useful response for avoiding it?

ebayaintstupid, That is a good website. I put it on my bookmarks. Thanks. It did not see through my aol. But I noticed if I don't sign into aol desktop it does see my real ip address. I have made that mistake.

It sees right through AOLs Desktop for me
 

Disabling it involves a couple of steps. But it doesn't appear to always block it.

Totally uninstalling Java makes it not work, but then all sites that depend on Java don't work.

What disturbed me about this was that Sun is not typically the type of company to support spying on people and this seems to have that and only that purpose.

I, also checked it out using AOL browser and it did not detect. The weird thing is that when I checked it using real IP without AOL, the IP was correct but my location was not even close.

Proxy Problems
 

This entire thread really answers you. In that the use of a proxy is not so
recommended because of its variables. Basically the forum likes to present
HARD DATA to allow users to beat ebay. At this point, I do not feel that a
strong enough case for using proxies is presented.
I really would not like to read of any user coming back to the forum and saying
'I used xxstupid's suggestion of this proxy. But my ebay account is now Naru'd.'

Not a personal attack on you as I fight quite differently. A comment that this is
an area where any user must WATCH OUT. cheers

But, GreenBean, some of us have circumstances that require it. I live in a little town in northern Mexico - probably the only eBay seller here. I have to mask where I am or they can easily catch me.

The AOL seemed a great idea - but we only have broadband here as far as I know.

Now I am to understand that BROADBAND AOL DOESN'T WORK?

There is An Answer
 

:D No, there is a solution for you even using AOL Broadband. Here's what I think

You are in Northern Mexico? So you are within say 200 miles of a USA town?
(just over the border....oops side track). Subject to getting this checked by
aspkin or Modee, why can you not manually set your IP to one in the USA?

Really I am not so great at the logistics here but I think you can work it.

Yes, GreenBean, I may have to do that. But I have a static IP on this computer, and the technology to change it seems very challenging. Thanks for your input.

No. That is only in your mind that it is hard: you can change IP from static to dynamic. Look at it this way, 99.9% of your/mine IP problems can be answered by someone here.
As I said, aspkin & Modee will help. Just think YOU can do this.

GreenBean, and ebayaintstupid, there seems to be a way around this problem with AOL broadband.

I have my administrator account in Windows XP where I do things I don't want ebay/pp to know about, and have created various secondary user accounts for my fictitious ebay/PP accounts. And I have a separate AOL 7 account in each of these user accounts. When I use one of the secondary accounts I use ccleaner when closing it.

By going into the internet security preferences in these separate AOL 7 accounts, disabling java script, and choosing the maximum security setting, I have the Privacy software. Free Internet privacy software. Privacy protection software. Free privacy security software. Computer privacy software review. PC privacy software Online privacy software. Anonymous internet privacy software surfing. Anonymous surfi test showing "test failed because java is not enabled" and it only gives the AOL proxy IP.

Since these AOL 7 accounts are used only in the fictitious ebay/PP accounts in XP, which I use only for ebay/pp and auctiva, I hope it won't be a problem not having java enabled.

Or am I missing something? (Quite possible).

Proxy Servers - Do they really Work
 

Can anyone advice if the proxy servers work - I have tried changing IP address so many different times and different ways - even called comcast 5 times - they say it can't be done. So, is there anyone out there who has successfully used a proxy server to get back onto e-bay and keep there account going????

Yes to the proxy. I am feeling your frustration in your post and know just how you feel.

I use a cable modem w/router and the router makes it very difficult to change ips on the fly. With several eb accounts, I absolutely refuse to unplug, restart, etc. etc. to have the ability to sign-on each separate account. So...I have been using smarhide (freeware) successfully and have downloaded AOL desktop version, got a screen name and also successfully log-in w/eb using different ips. Have been using smarthide for 6-weeks now w/no problems and more recently started using aol.

AOL Proxy is the only proxy that works well. All the others are worthless for eBay.

But if you use AOL Proxy, uninatall the JRE...
 

or you appear to be able to see right through the proxy and AOL won't let you disable it.

Check IP address. IP check. Find IP address. IP finder. Java IP Test. Static IP address. Hide ip address. Change IP address. Changing IP address. Anonymous IP address.

Although I have not been able to get an answer as to whether the java client can feed this information back to the server.

Since you use Comcast, check out this thread.

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-tr...p-address.html

For one, I don't use comcast...
 

for two, the description only half works. You cannot dependably get an address back once you release it. And if you have more than one EBAY account, constantly fiddling with your Cable Modem/Router each time you want to log in gets kind of crazy.

Tracking Via Old IP - without proxy server - how long to track???
 

I just got a new account set up and everything I thought straightened out. However, stupid me, I forgot to go into the proxy server (anonymizer) before signing onto ebay. I was signed on for all of about as long as it took to sign on -realize it- and sign off - (maybe 2-3 seconds).

Is this long enough for ebay to track my old ip and suspend my new account???:confused:

Thanks

Using a VPN and paying for it... is it worth it???
 

I am ready to start new accoutns on ebay. i read the full 35 page manual

but i have a question or two....

i noticed "smartVPN.com" has been removed from your list in your latest updates
why so???

and seeing as i want maximum protection from ebay seeing my IP address and linking accounts. is paying for a VPN still the best thing to do? along with deleting cookies with firefox?

i think its worth it to pay for the piece of mind if you are a serious ebayer

anyone know a way around this PLEASE share :D

If you're unable to change your IP address any other way, VPN works. It's optional though, just as in Dialup. And of course deleting cookies along with changing your IP is a must.

About smartVPN.com, Mik3 must have removed that; I didn't touch the VPN section that much.

I just bought strong vpn, but my question is that if it assigns you only one ip address and says it allows for anonymous surfing, when you go to ebay or paypal, does it show the same static ip address every time that you log in. If that is the case, what is the point of the vpn if you are opening one account. I have never understood this one and have now purchased both witopia and strong vpn. Any help or comments would be appreciated to clear up my confusion.

noip.com
 

If I use something like no-ip.com would that stop ebay from linking accounts? TIA

No .

you can always use one of my proxy's, Im sure they will say "no proxy detected" therefore they cannot be detected by ebay or paypal :D

ebay never bans me because of ip...

Hey Guys found a method thats been working so far for me.
 

Hello peepz,
Ive also been in a similar situation.. got linked to my assholish friend.. I started using aniscartujo.com/webproxy/ .. I saw that it showed isproxy = false, so Im hoping this works.. I started using it 2 days ago put up 2 items.. havent been banned yet. Still new to this proxy thing but read that this one in particular is good for eBay proxies.. get back to me or post.. thanks guys for all the help. Good website. Whoever made this is a genyus.

Paypal and AOL proxy useing aol browser
 

Yeah well sence i was forced to use paypal in order to keep selling i had to verfiey my paypal account and i had a bunch of idiot buyers pay me useing paypal even though in my listing i said i cant do paypal so i said what the hell and did a w/d for $238 to my meta bank up side card which i figerd i would be limted with in hours but to my surpize the money went from pending to complete and i got the money today on my card and funny thing is i did it all through aol and i was sure i was going to get limted w/d that much at first and useing aol and being a new paypal user i was shocked


so dose any one else use aol with paypal and have any problems? i know its a problem with ebay but not sure about paypal.


this was the first time i used paypal in sence launch date of google checkout. and i made the account under ⊗⊗⊗⊗ info

Was your Paypal account verified and or confirmed?

Paypal doesn't like proxies so much, but AOL might be an exception like it is for eBay. Also your transactions were for less then $500, so it's wasn't a cause for alarm.

Paypal works with eBay, many people on this forum use Paypal and eBay successfully together.

Anyone Using TOR ? Does it help w/ IP addresses?
 

What exactly does TOR do?
And does it help hide your IP address?

any help (pros/cons) would be greatly appreciated!