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3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

after my Etsy shop got deactivated.

I was selling shirts.

I have tried to open many stealth accounts,
my first stealth account: I tried new designs new templates all ⊗⊗⊗⊗ information new user, new email for PayPal new card, clearing image exifs..., I used a private proxy (Israel) from this website proxy-n-VPN
the account stayed for about 10 days and it got deactivated after 5 sales.


my second stealth Etsy account got deactivated after one sale and it stayed for about 3 days. I used new designs and some designs of my old deactivated account but in new templates. and I used the same steps from the new stealth account to create this second account.

all of those 2 Etsy accounts when I tried to upload my first listing, my show were not indexed on Etsy search anymore and even my listings but after 1 day the shop was indexed like any normal store, and I think this is not normal because Etsy doesn't do that unless your account is suspicious.

now I'm tired of creating new stores and Etsy keeps deactivating them.

5 days ago i opened my laptop without a VPN or proxies. I installed opera on my laptop and I have opened a new Etsy store with all ⊗⊗⊗⊗ information, but this time with my normal IP I live in morocco. the shop still working until today and it was indexed from the first day in Etsy search. I tried to search for my shop name and my listings they are active and indexed from the first day, I haven't made any sale yet on this store I have now 10 listings on this store I have views. but still waiting for a sale to see if this store will stay or Etsy will close it again.

i will keep you updated

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Changing the email address on your PP account is not enough. Changing the email address does not change your PP account ID #. There's a high chance your account got shut down after a few sales because etsy noticed there were payments going to the same Paypal account as a previously banned etsy shop was using.

:noidea:

Good luck with new acccount.

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

I thought seller cannot accept Paypal payments ,buyer can use Paypal via Etsy managed payment,

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

i heard from some members here thats etsy is not like ebay on paypal because its not linked to paypal. but maybe you are right we nee dto keep testing :/

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

in morocco we don't support Etsy payments, i can use only paypal

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

so opera vpn works fine ?

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

no i'm not using opera VPN, i'm using opera in normal mode

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

etsy closed my account after 4 sales

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

only VPN is ok

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

should i use a vpn ?

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

all forum is about ip and vpn so? use it

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Sorry to hear that - in what category are your sales?

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

i was selling tshirts

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

I recommend that you use something like ip burger or express vpn, if using windows create a user account and use that as you browser history will only be for this account, create a new paypal account. When uploading images put them through a Online Exif Viewer and delete the meta data, or you can download paint.net for free and load the image into it and save it the metadata is wiped, remember there can be GPS location on the images. Last thing is to change the title of the listing so it is not the same as before.

Good luck

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

well i guess the problem on paypal, its ok to create a second paypal ?

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

1. First shop was on you normal IP?
you can still login to your old (first one) account go to security section and see from which IP you was login. - https://www.etsy.com/your/account/security
now all this IP are banned

2. For what reason first shop was banned?


3. You can use old PP with adding new email, if you paid Etsy fee by VCC not by PP

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Hi. Is this new? I do not pay the etsy fees with paypal. I use gift cards.
Is there a way around this?

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Nah, Etsy doesnt see your PP account info when you RECEIVE payments there.
However you can get linked and suspended if you try to pay your fee's with your paypal account.
This is 100% info as i am using same PP with several acc's with different e-mails. some of them got deactivated but not others.

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Thank you.
My stealths acct are being deactivated after a couple of sales. Dont know why

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Are you receiving an email from them stating you are banned? Or is there zero correspondence? If there’s no email, from my experience you’ve made a mistake at some point by using bad IP, VPN or other info that has been caught by a bot. I had a shop going for over a year until I accidentally logged on to the wrong WiFi.
:faint:

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

Sorry just saw your repsonse. I am using vanilla visas and express vpn. They shut me down after 5 sales

I open stealth in south america.

Re: 3 stealth etsy accounts. 2 are closed and one still acive
 

But did you receive an email from them?