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Long term IP changes on mobile hotspot
 

I have been successfully running accounts for a few years now. My items now do not get removed so eBay may be not targeting them anymore, but there is alway a risk so I want to continue with this.
I have been running 1 account for >12months now with no item removed. Whilst I log into other old 'cooling' accounts using a new IP address. I will have hundreds and hundreds of single use IPs against each account. My excellent sheet now has 1,852 IP addresses across 4 accounts.

My question is, do I still need to ensure IP address is a new one?

I understand I need to build up a lot of IP's to remove any link between accounts but with these numbers I cannot see there ever being a link?

Would eBay not see these accounts as mobile based so therefor not under scrutiny of static IPs?

It sometimes takes multiple times to access account due to duplicating IPs.
My ideal situation would be, cycle flight mode on phone, then start hot spot and connect to laptop and log into account, without worrying about IP logging.

Interested to hear other long termers.

Thanks

Re: Long term IP changes on mobile hotspot
 

Welcome to the forum - all the best as you master stealth :thumb:

What IP Provider are you using is the first step to analyzing the need to ensure IP address is a new one.


1852 IP addresses over 4 accounts wow...that is very good diligence. I would think some overlap here and there would be fine as long as cookies are in place.

Re: Long term IP changes on mobile hotspot
 

thank you for your reply. Yes cookies are in place and I'm using Tesco Mobile.

I don't mind recording as its part of my routing, but I'm now having to reset IP more and more now due to IP being a repeat.

I'm not sure what to do for the best. I may relax it a little. My thought being, there is nothing to say other stealth users in my area could be using the same IPs so there is nothing to differentiate between me and them so I cannot see eBay banning an account when its had 100s of IPs, and tends to be new every time it connects.

Main thing is possible just ensuring I don't connect to 2 account on same IP as this is clearly same person/address.

Like this;
xxx.xxx.xx1 account 1
xxx.xxx.xx1 account 2
xxx.xxx.xx1 account 1

Thanks

Re: Long term IP changes on mobile hotspot
 

^ That's actually the best thing to do. But what i do now is have a separate device in each account - for extra safety purposes :thumb: