stealth account linked through accidental site visit?

[geerdt]

I used an Ipad to shill bid on my own ebay auctions with a stealth account. I did this at public IP's only. However, while at my regular fixed IP, I accidentally stumbled into the ebay site through google. I did NOT login. The site DID show the greeting "hello mr X" even though it wasn't logged in any more.

Is this stealth account now linked with my real account? Much more importantly, does the accompanying paypal account get linked to the other one as well?

[GreenBean]

Shill bidding?

[geerdt]

yeah I know. But anyway, I want to re-use this account, because it is a year old. Can it be used or is it linked?

I just visited ebay, I did not log in on my home IP.

[rsot]

1 time is unlikely to cause you problems - just dont repeat.

And, seriously - shill bidding? You need to operate extra clean doing those shenanigans.

Stop shill bidding - that will get you into trouble

[geerdt]

thanks for your advice. I learned from these errors and will create a new one.