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Default IP Linking to different accounts - How screwed am I?

I searched around a bit but only found basic newb questions about how to change their ips.

I've been up and running on 4 stealth accounts selling around $3000k a month each for almost 2 years. Its safe to say these accounts are VERY established with feedback ratings well over 1000, power seller and top rated seller statuses.

The dreaded inevitable happened. One of my newer employees forgot to change the ip when moving between paypal accounts for the last 3 days. Each day was a new ip however she logged into the four accounts on that same IP.

How screwed are we? We're rarely dinged for VERO or trademark violations or anything like that but we do sell about 5 - 10% questionable items to put it lightly. We're currently pulling listings down that we have been flagged for anytime in the past 2 years on any of our accounts to try and ride under the radar.

Will ebay suspend or cancel any of our accounts off the bat because of being linked to accounts with varying names?
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If the only thing you linked is ip, I think you will be fine. Public wifi places broadcast one ip usually, with many people logging on. Ebay wouldn't be able to suspend everyone who logged onto ebay via Starbucks wifi.
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What if the products we sell are very similar? For example different size things on different accounts but basically the same products?
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If one gets suspended, then yes it's possible to get the others suspended - By selling the same products and having had the ip link.


But if none of them get suspended, I highly doubt they will suspend you just for selling the same products on multiple accounts.
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Might be screwed, but the more time that passes the better off you'll be...as mentioned above they don't necessarily ban everyone at the same IP address for that reason alone.

Also the only way that the other will go down is if the first one goes down. From the sounds of things they have all been up and running well for some time, so just keep them healthy and put some distance between you and the incident
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