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Mercari Stealth Dead
 

I believe Mercari's stealth is no longer possible. They are now requiring an ID and picture through the app at the point of the first sale when you go to print the shipping label. I see no way to bypass this as they could detect the IMEI and AI detection of your face.

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But what if you don't use the app on your phone and register via desktop...?

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Is that their requirement nowdays and no exceptions?

When there's a problem, there's always a solution. Soon or later the solution will be found

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I always use desktop. They eventually force the user to download the app and go through it for verification.

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From what I have gathered it is their new "kyc" requirement. I thought it was triggered otherwise, but it is apparently new policy.

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Even though this won't help your situation, I think they're just shooting themselves in the foot.

They don't have the traffic like ebay or amazon....

They DO have scammers though and it's been increasing.

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Funny yet tragic is that Mercari is doing the scamming as well with the new fee system etc...:doh:

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I was making a fortune on there with solid and perfect accounts. You just had to know the niches. But you are correct, the company is going to crush their fanbase after the fees and now kyc.

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Oh yeah, the "buyer protection fee" that they still make the customer pay. Yet, they have zero customer service.

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You were making or are making currently...?

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I feel like Mercari is more like the old craigslist. Full of bottom feeders.
But I'm seeing more and more sellers selling higher end products and more inventory now.

So that demographic could change.

What do you reckon is the niches that you're talking about?

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Electronics, hair tools, skincare, pokemon.

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It was currently until the two stealth accounts I had for months got burned. I just don't see this KYC being bypassed. I tried to contact support and was ignored even with the excuse of not having a smartphone. They just don't care.

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Support for many of these net sales platforms just seem to be a wash these days - maybe try the social media venues - fb, ig, X...?

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Converted back to FB and currently experimenting with their cost-per-sale ads.

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There you go - hope it works out

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Pokemon didn't trigger a flag on your account?

I remember selling a scotty and it got immediately removed even though it was real and I just couldn't stomach Mercari so I said what ever

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They have been requiring selfie and ID since I can remember. What makes you think they keep this on file? They outsource receipt verifications with another company. Mercari has no internal structure to properly manage these things.

I have reused the same information numerous times and never had a problem. I've also had the 1099k threshold passed every time as well. I've done this from 2019-2025, with my current active account working. However this time I only want to push around 20k sales a year. This is only a backup account for some extra money. Using Mercari for any other means I think at this point is 100% foolish.

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This is really good info my man!

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Thanks, and for the record each time I've had my accounts Mercari had to manually approve my business docs to satisfy the 20k limit. Whenever I input my information it never accepts, so they have to do it manually.

This is with a different EIN, different business, different address, keeping all things stealth maintained, but same SSN each time.

So they technically have had the same SSN each time, same ID, same selfie of me, and never once was I subject to a connection between accounts.

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Wow that's amazing to read

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oddly enough, their pokemon market is on absolute fire right now. Zero issues with it. Tons of buyers.

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I've been banned before. Would that not flag my ID and IMEI? I take it your id has never been banned or your device number.

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at this point you're goanna be the go to guy for more obscure platforms like tikotok and mercari heh.

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Morning chuckles :lol:

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I use a T-mobile phone and each time just reset to factory settings. I don't think they track either of these things you mentioned because my ID has been used numerous times. Each time I submit docs for manual review to pass the soft 20k limit, I input same SSN, and these things are manually reviewed.

If there was a button for them to input my data then cross check for a link it would have happened.

Maybe if you sell in a particular category they treat your account differently than mine. Never had an account suspended due to linkage. Actually the last account was suspended because of shipping, even though I had perfect feedback, and no returns.

They claimed customers were complaining so without warning I was just automatically suspended. However, my funds were not held. After about 2 months I got my $1,000+ back. If there was any way of them to link me I almost guarantee it was checked with my account before they released the funds.

But thats just me.

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Interesting. Is your phone Android or Apple? I know they have my IMEI number. I don't know how I would spoof that on my personal iPhone with downloading from the app store. It seems the information would not cross over. I was creating accounts with flip phones, which of course don't hold the tech for verification.

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The more I think about this, I wonder if you could back up your personal phone and keep resetting it. Or, just investing a burner smartphone. I am going to test the latter of a burner smartphone through tracphone. I've had a horrible time, having number recycled that have signed up for the app before. We'll see how it goes.

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I hope the burner smartphone option works well - it's the easiest of the options it would seem...

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YOu run more than 1 account?

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I like using my work phones with Android, and personal is iPhone. Sometimes there are things you can do on the apps that differ between the device, it's helpful.

When I have had an account suspended, I do take about 2-3 months of time before opening another, and try to move them slowly. I just reset the phone to factory settings and change the phone number. T-mobile allows you I think 2 times a year due to "spam related". Otherwise its like $10 or something to change.

The last two times I've been suspended was out of the blue, and I've had perfect feedback each time. So now I just prefer to push 20k at most each year, and i'll be happy with that. Basically just pays off my office space, along with some other things.

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Always have had one Mercari account running at a time. Never more than one. When they have gotten suspended before I change every detail I can in the settings too.

I still respect stealth, each time its a different business I use, different EIN, different bank account etc, but for the personal details thats always been the one constant.

Side note: the phones I paid for are like $150+ so its expensive, with a $20 bill. But if you know you'll make $20k off the account, its worth the fee. Just have to accept it as price of doing business...

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I was bypassing that by using ship on your own. But as of last week, they got rid of that.

For me, wasn't worth the headaches with dealing with all their crap for the amount of low sales and user base.

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Oh so you do use 1 phone per 1 mercari account?

I'm assuming a cheap android phone? Or old iphone?

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I’ve used different phones but the current one has been used for 3 different accounts since 2023. I lost two accounts since then, both out of the blue suspensions, which now I know they do.

I had perfect feedback on both accounts, doesn’t matter. Even had no returns. Didn’t matter. Customers complained about shipping.

The android is about $150 with a sim card

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I mean you run 1 mercari account on 1 phone right? Not all 3 at the same time.?

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Yes I only operate one account at one time, so it's always one account with one phone.

I have had my current account for 3 months now, hardly listed anything. Made about $600 bucks. Once I list more I plan to average around $2k at most per month. Once I get near 20k I'll just clip the sales. Rather have 18-19k a year then have to go through the process of making a new account every year, facing the same bs from their support. Anything passing 20k just puts you on their radar, and they ban accounts without warning, regardless of feedback or return ratio.

The don't like business sellers. Every time I got suspended was when I had about $2k+ pending.

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Mercari does sound more like amazon ....

just to share........... I listed an item worth $300 for $90 since it's used (even though is mint condition) and I got bottom feeders begging me to sell to them for $60.

Their reasoning? They said they only have $60.

Bottom feeders.

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Haha, yeah whenever I list a sale on Depop, I always get MORE offers after the sale. It's like putting something for sale to the newer generation of consumers at least for what I sell, in their minds is an invitation to ask for lower, not take the discount already presented.

I do accept offers on platforms that hide what I accept, but like on eBay you have to select "open to offers". If I include that in all my listings then to me I'm telling my customers everything I sell can be bought at a lower price.

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I don't think you can take off the offer option on mercari though.

This generation is so entitled and lazy.