IP address on ebay different than ipchicken
I first noticed this last summer so this is nothing new, but I've discovered that my IP number that shows up on ipchicken, whatsmyip, ect is different from ebay. How I found this out is, whenever I've changed account information (i.e. password, user name, ect) I would get a notifacation email from ebay confirming the change and at the bottom of the email would be my IP address. Example: on the same computer ipchicken would tell me my ip is 71.55.xxx.xxx but ebay would tell me my ip is 10.3.xx.xx or something of that nature. Other sites, like emusic, do the same thing if I fill out a support ticket or change account info.
Does anyone know why this is? I've made exhaustive searches for info on this and have never found an answer. I switch modems when I'm using different accounts so my ip address at ipchicken is never the same on different accounts but I have no idea what kind of numbers my computer is sending ebay. This is really weird because I never no what my ip address with ebay because it never shows up as "71.55.xxx.xxx" even though every ip checking site does.
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