Accidentaly clicked eBay email

[christianmend]

Hi.

First of all thanks for the help.

I was on my iPhone checking an eBay email (I use Gmail) received into my stealth account and I accidentally clicked something... However I quickly closed Safari and deleted history and cookies. Will this cause a flag?

I was also wondering... Is it fine to reply to messages that ussers send me through the email directly?

Thanks in advance.

[rsot]

Gmail works ok if you disable all images and beacons.

[GhostOfAmazon]

You people crack me up. When you do something like this, you post hysterically like you just opened an envelope full of anthrax.

Typically a one-time mistake will NOT doom your account. Don't do it again though.

[rsot]

That's a reference not heard in awhile haha anthrax...

[dallis]

Yeah, everyone thinks there's some sort of an EB or PP center with huge world maps on big screens on the walls, and there's some kind of a red alert that goes off similar to a nuclear missile launch warning, and that suddenly everybody at EB or PP goes to Defcon 5 when this happens.

The truth is these little errors like logging in from a previously used IP from a different account once, or clicking on a link in an email, or something else minor are ignored, or maybe they slowly aggregate over time, and maybe someday they reach some unknown threshold where a bot takes notice of a 'pattern'.

Stay out of trouble, keep customers happy, follow EB's rules, and chances are good you'll be okay.

I have stealth accounts that are five years old, and they're doing just fine.

[stressed08]

My case is different but similar. I wish to start using an old inactive account now that ebay screwed me, but realized I logged into it 5 times from the same computer as my newly restricted account. It was before I was restricted. If 1 IP mistake isn't bad.. what about 5? Are IPs even logged when both accounts are in good standing, at the time neither account was in "poor" standing?

[realdeals]

Originally Posted by rsot

That's a reference not heard in awhile haha anthrax...

Anthrax is just soooooooo Noughties.

[access0ner]

ahaha WEB BACONS! <toasty>