Residential proxy service for registering on Amazon and Etsy from outside US

[wilsonwilson]

Looking to create new accounts for Amazon (and Etsy) but I'm located outside of the US at the moment.

From what I understand, a Residential IP proxy is the best way to go about this in order to reduce the chance of getting flagged/suspended upon signup.

Can anyone recommend a solid, hassle-free, Residential IP proxy provider?

I know about IPBurger, but I'm curious about what others are recommended here.

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[degsey69]

I think IP Burger has reasonable rates and works so may do not shop around.

[rsot]

Welcome to the forum OP - all the best as you master stealth

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[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

Looking to create new accounts for Amazon (and Etsy) but I'm located outside of the US at the moment.

From what I understand, a Residential IP proxy is the best way to go about this in order to reduce the chance of getting flagged/suspended upon signup.

Can anyone recommend a solid, hassle-free, Residential IP proxy provider?

I know about IPBurger, but I'm curious about what others are recommended here.

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IPBurger is made for stealth specifically and it's the only one ,

I don't cut corners when it comes to my business so I use it

[csproo]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

Looking to create new accounts for Amazon (and Etsy) but I'm located outside of the US at the moment.

From what I understand, a residential IP proxy is the best way to go about this in order to reduce the chance of getting flagged/suspended upon signup.

Can anyone recommend a solid, hassle-free, residential IP proxy provider?

I know about IPBurger, but I'm curious about what others are recommended here.

🍻

The best proxies are 4G, 5G proxies. They never get blocked. It's best to use a service with the openvpn protocol as it supports UDP

[wilsonwilson]

Originally Posted by csproo

The best proxies are 4G, 5G proxies. They never get blocked. It's best to use a service with the openvpn protocol as it supports UDP

Thanks for the post! From the research I've been doing as well, seems like mobile proxies are definitely the best. But could you elaborate more on this?

"It's best to use a service with the openvpn protocol as it supports UDP"

Why is it the best?

[rsot]

if located outside the USA, whereabouts wilsonwilson?

[BigLad]

Originally Posted by csproo

The best proxies are 4G, 5G proxies. They never get blocked. It's best to use a service with the openvpn protocol as it supports UDP

I was looking at mobile proxies and they seem mega expensive.

Ip address is only (possibly) important for account creation, after that they don't seem to care where you log in from

[wilsonwilson]

Originally Posted by BigLad

after that they don't seem to care where you log in from

if true, this is a good point.

i havent used them but just while on the topic of mobile proxy prices, hydraproxy sells them for only 3 bucks a day or 15 bucks for 15 days which isnt expensive and seems reasonable to get a new account up and seasoned a bit with a good ip

still really curious as to why openvpn/UDP is preferred. what does it provide vs a traditional proxy setup?

[soheil]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

Looking to create new accounts for Amazon (and Etsy) but I'm located outside of the US at the moment.

From what I understand, a residential IP proxy is the best way to go about this in order to reduce the chance of getting flagged/suspended upon signup.

Can anyone recommend a solid, hassle-free, residential IP proxy provider?

I know about ipburger, but I'm curious about what others are recommended here.

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Why not using VPS which has all the network security in your desire country. You could have access on your mobile phone as well with affordable price.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

still really curious as to why openvpn/UDP is preferred. what does it provide vs a traditional proxy setup?

openvpn is not preferred - avoid cheap/overused VPN services

[SaiJin]

Well, I guess some people just want to hear what they want to hear and have to run through some BS problems before listening to a solid advice.

So have at it.

[amzrocket]

I just created a bunch of accounts using IPs linked to hosting services.

I got hit with video verification on all except 1 account, and half the accounts require a postcard before they'll activate the account.
Maybe a residential IP wouldn't get you hit with these requirements up front, but I consider getting all the mandatory verification done on account creation a huge positive. If you're video verified off the bat the odds of getting a random video verification check later on are lower. The postcard thing is also mandatory once you hit 5K in sales because of the INFORM act, so again, having that happen before your account is activated is great since it gets it out of the way. The important thing here is the accounts were approved after all the verification was passed.

What's important is you use IP addresses that aren't linked to abuse or shared. The way a VPN service is it funnels a ton of users' network data all through 1 IP, which is what you want for privacy (it's impossible to tell which user made the connection thru that server if there's no logs), but it's the opposite of what you want when you don't want your Amazon account linked to some scammer's account.

If you want to use a proxy, ipburger has a lot of vouches here. I personally use (and would recommend) VPSes because it cuts the risk of you logging into the wrong account with the wrong IP address down to zero

[wilsonwilson]

Originally Posted by amzrocket

I just created a bunch of accounts using IPs linked to hosting services.

I got hit with video verification on all except 1 account, and half the accounts require a postcard before they'll activate the account.
Maybe a residential IP wouldn't get you hit with these requirements up front, but I consider getting all the mandatory verification done on account creation a huge positive. If you're video verified off the bat the odds of getting a random video verification check later on are lower. The postcard thing is also mandatory once you hit 5K in sales because of the INFORM act, so again, having that happen before your account is activated is great since it gets it out of the way. The important thing here is the accounts were approved after all the verification was passed.

What's important is you use IP addresses that aren't linked to abuse or shared. The way a VPN service is it funnels a ton of users' network data all through 1 IP, which is what you want for privacy (it's impossible to tell which user made the connection thru that server if there's no logs), but it's the opposite of what you want when you don't want your Amazon account linked to some scammer's account.

If you want to use a proxy, ipburger has a lot of vouches here. I personally use (and would recommend) VPSes because it cuts the risk of you logging into the wrong account with the wrong IP address down to zero

What an awesome and helpful response. Thanks so much for posting this!

Can you give some more details about using a VPS here and how it adds that extra layer of assuring that you don't use the wrong IP on an account? If I'm imagining this correctly, do you dedicate a VPS entirely to one account? Is this a cloud desktop environment or Linux box/shell?

Sorry for all the q's, but this is really interesting and appreciate the knowledge.

[amzrocket]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

What an awesome and helpful response. Thanks so much for posting this!

Can you give some more details about using a VPS here and how it adds that extra layer of assuring that you don't use the wrong IP on an account? If I'm imagining this correctly, do you dedicate a VPS entirely to one account? Is this a cloud desktop environment or Linux box/shell?

Sorry for all the q's, but this is really interesting and appreciate the knowledge.

1 VPS = 1 account, save login credentials on the browser. This way you don't log into the wrong account by mistake.
You remote desktop into the VPS to use a web browser on it. I use windows but you can use whatever OS you're comfortable with.

My recommendation is to not cheap out on the VPS. You're using this to run a business, cheap VPSes often have connection/performance issues.

[amzrocket]

Since I believe aspkin has some kind of stake in IP Burger, I'll leave this suggestion here.

If they had a residential IP VPS offering, that would probably garner a decent amount of interest. While I haven't had any issue so far with random datacenter IP addresses, I would definitely consider renting a VPS from a service that doesn't have an IP in a range that's likely been used abusively if the price/quality is comparable to other VPS services.

[wilsonwilson]

Originally Posted by amzrocket

Since I believe aspkin has some kind of stake in IP Burger, I'll leave this suggestion here.

If they had a residential IP VPS offering, that would probably garner a decent amount of interest. While I haven't had any issue so far with random datacenter IP addresses, I would definitely consider renting a VPS from a service that doesn't have an IP in a range that's likely been used abusively if the price/quality is comparable to other VPS services.

Yeah, there certainly seems to be an affiliation here as well as a bias that seems to steer away from other practical, effective concepts.

And for the record, I actually did go with IP burger's static residential IP to create the account because I only needed one account and it worked well. I checked the IP for residential status, abuse, etc. and it all checked out.

But moving on...

I couldn't agree more re: datacenter IPs with a VPS... this would definitely be ideal. I guess you could technically accomplish this with a VPS desktop and then plug in a Residential Proxy to that, heh.

So two q's..

1. Do you know of any residential VPSes?
2. Regardless of datacenter/residential.. can you recommend a service?

Most of this is all for futureproofing. I definitely don't see myself leasing a Static IP from IPB for long.

Cheers

[amzrocket]

You have to keep in mind the majority of this site is about eBay Stealth, and I believe IP burger is a solution tailored to that. I don't think think ebay does things like video/postcard verification, so they have more stringent security checks in other areas. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't like datacenter IPs.

So just curious, did you get hit with video verification when you registered w/ the IP Burger IP?

And again, from my experience with Amazon, I would be less concerned about the IP categorization, and just make sure you're not using an IP that's highly likely to be linked to abuse like a VPN IP.

[wilsonwilson]

Had to verify identity with the webcam for Amazon, yeah. Not sure if that's what you mean by video verification though.

Can you recommend a decent VPS desktop host?

[amzrocket]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

Had to verify identity with the webcam for Amazon, yeah. Not sure if that's what you mean by video verification though.

Can you recommend a decent VPS desktop host?

That's what I mean by video verification. It gives you 2 options, to take a picture of your ID and your face w/ some identity verification service, or to join a video call with an amazon associate.

For some reason when I tried the automated thing it bugged out and said it couldn't find my camera for taking a picture of my face (though it worked fine for taking pictures of the ID) so I just do the video call w/ the amazon associate option.

As for a VPS provider.. pick any large reliable hosting company except for AWS.

[wilsonwilson]

Originally Posted by amzrocket

That's what I mean by video verification. It gives you 2 options, to take a picture of your ID and your face w/ some identity verification service, or to join a video call with an amazon associate.

For some reason when I tried the automated thing it bugged out and said it couldn't find my camera for taking a picture of my face (though it worked fine for taking pictures of the ID) so I just do the video call w/ the amazon associate option.

As for a VPS provider.. pick any large reliable hosting company except for AWS.

Lol.. I'm asking for a recommendation that you have personal experience with. I guess that wasn't clear. Kind of the whole point of this thread 🙃

Yeah, for the verification, it was not a video call. It was the ID and facial verification with webcam. I've had those things bug out on me before too with other KYC services. Frustrating.

Are you running multiple Amazon accounts under a single ID? I'm wondering if this is possible as well somehow with all of these verification hurdles

[amzrocket]

Originally Posted by wilsonwilson

Lol.. I'm asking for a recommendation that you have personal experience with. I guess that wasn't clear. Kind of the whole point of this thread 🙃

Yeah, for the verification, it was not a video call. It was the ID and facial verification with webcam. I've had those things bug out on me before too with other KYC services. Frustrating.

Are you running multiple Amazon accounts under a single ID? I'm wondering if this is possible as well somehow with all of these verification hurdles

I've used liquidweb, they're expensive but they're good.

And no, 1 ID = 1 account. I'm 99% sure that submitting the same ID for multiple accounts will lead to a problem if not outright rejected right away.