a little something something about aol and paypal (bed partners)

[doughboykilla]

Well i can tell u this that this is not a coincidence. I made a ebay sellers id for personal use a few weeks ago and i made a paypal account and i forgot to verfiy my email it was some off the wall email that included alot of numbers. So any way i had like 20 items sell then all the buyers paid and now the payments are pending so i log in paypal and say s**t!!! hopeing and praying the email i used wasnt used by another on aol. i go to aol and make the new email then it asked me to create a user name so i put in the email i used for paypal and check avablity and it says its avablie! im like woo hoo so i go through all rest the steps and click create then i get this message from aol that i can not use that email im like WTF its never been used and it said i could use it but now i cant! so now i have wait till all the buyers money is refunded cause i cant make the email to get in there and verfiy it to paypal. and i know for a fact it was cause i had pending payments is why aol wont let me make the email to accept the payments so they have to be working with ebay/pp to know this info cause what are the odds. I had this happen in the past as well be never thought of it like this. It makes me wonder what else aol is shareing with ebay/pp

[aspkin]

Use Gmail.

Lesson learned.

[doughboykilla]

yeah but gmail is hard to get working in my outlook express. it works at first then after a couple day it dosent work no more. I use aol cause i never had any problems useing it through outlook.

[GreenBean]

Outlook Express is outdated. Get with the program

[oge]

Lol GB. What's wrong with being old school?

[aking]

outlook express?? Wow i didnt think anyone used that anymore.

Go with gmail, it works great with ebay.

[captainjack1980]

Nothing wrong with outlook express!

CaptainJack

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by oge

Lol GB. What's wrong with being old school?

Nothing at all. I still have carrier pigeons

Realistically OE is not that good for stealth if the user is challenged computer-wise

[captainjack1980]

Carrier pigeons lol.

CaptainJack

[oompaloompa]

another thing though, do you trust gmail not to share with ebay?? I mean they have all your ips and email account details , plus now they want a cellphone verification, and most people will use same phone for multi accounts, right? Plus you get linked cos they ask you for another email as password support and usually you give another ebay email youve made in past - is all this safe??

[aspkin]

Gmail is fine, trust me. They do the verification thing for people that they think are abusing (mostly spammers), they don't share your information.

[Hottest_eBay_Goddess]

I think he's using OE because regular Outlook doesnt let you use multiple emails (or thats how it was last time I checked).

-HeG

[doughboykilla]

Well its called Windows Live now but i just called it Outlook express cause its what i always used. Its a PITA to log in and out of 15 emails when i can use windows live has a sub page that puts all your messages in one page as well as its own page for quick view access its like having 15 emails in one. I never had no problems begin linked or stelth isses using OE.

Also with making mutliple gmails i found it to be effected by putting a 2nd email (where it ask to) I read this on another fourm and so far i havent been ask to do SMS verfiy sence then. Im not sure how gmail is linking i figerd its eather ip or cookies but who knows.

[oge]

Lol I make as many gmail accounts as I want. Never had to use the phone verification. As far as the email goes I always put a dummy email address in like g@mail.com something quick and easy.