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Did I just open myself to be linked?
 

I have two computers in my home. And I made a point not to log into my former suspended account. As a matter of fact, I logged out of my former eBay account.

I turned my modem off for the night and in the morning I had a fresh, clean, unused IP address.

I turned Computer #1 on, downloaded a new browser, and signed into my new stealth eBay account. I watched the video "How to sell on eBay" to make like I'm a new user. And I stayed logged in as I know it registered that cookie.

I went to Computer #2 and noticed that there was an eBay bookmark. Knowing that i had logged off last night, I clicked on it, just to see if I could log on to it it with my new stealth account. To my surprise, my OLD eBay account came up, ALREADY SIGNED IN, and I immediately thought that maybe that was a bookmark that had a "save password" on it. So my old eBay account was on with Computer #2 while my stealth eBay account was logged onto Computer #1. I quickly logged out of my old account (was on for maybe 30 seconds), but still it was there.

Have I doomed myself to getting linked?

On Computer #2, I have NEVER logged onto it with my stealth.

Does eBay link accounts due to cookies (which would not be a match) or due to logins (which would not be a match) or due to a matched IP address (which IS a match)?

Re: Did I just open myself to be linked?
 

It's possible through IP address that the accounts are familiar with each other now but I doubt the accounts are linked. I'm sure everything else with the account is completely different so it should be okay.

Just be more careful next time.

Re: Did I just open myself to be linked?
 

Thanks, I'm never going to log on to my other computer with eBay. So far so good. No suspension or linked accounts so far. I'll just continue to lurk and not do any activity. Maybe Ebay will think the IP is a public IP..