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IP addressing, is it really that important?
 

This is why I ask, assume I am an ISP and my IP is 127.0.0.1 and you are my clients... IP addressing of 127.0.0.2-254. Thats without SUPERNETING!!!!! Even in such a simplistic enviornment there are 253 possibilities (255 being a marker ofcourse) if ebay bans one ip, they ban all ips, such is a "gateway" and there could be thousands of IP's and legitimate accounts behind one IP.

As such it would be impossible for ebay to ban an ip address with their "algorithmic" bots without banning tens of thousands if not hurdreds of thousands of ebay accounts. My point: They cannot by ip alone ban 10/20 or even 100 accounts without putting themselves out of business via loss of revenue, or requiring such a large telecom network to confirm these accounts that their bottom line would be devastated and discourage investors/share holders.

Just a thought.

-Quamz0

Yeah I was thinking the same since I've logged in to the same accounts by mistake without resetting ip and nothing happened, I even log in and out of my limited paypals from same ip and nothing happens of course they're already limited but only partially, it makes sense since people login on public computers all the time I'm sure and not to mention the 1000's of large family homes and office buildings with many ebay members logging in from the same ip.

Same here :)

Lol I had the same thing going in my mind about 6 months ago. I was blocked on eBay and created a new account using same ip address and nothing happened besides verifying my "personal information." I eventually rebanned myself by winning and not paying .06 bids for feedback while selling 10x Monster beats.

The problem is if they were to auto ban multiple accounts behind the same router or firewall they would literally ban tens of thousands if not millions of accounts every day lol