Tracking Through Delivery Confirmation Number

[dallis]

I have had several separate unlinked E & P stealth accounts with different names/user accounts/phone, etc running without problems for about 90 days now.

Sometimes due to 21 day fund holds, there isn't enough money in the P account where the item was purchased and paid for to ship without using a credit/debit/gift card.

If I ship from another unlinked P account, manually entering the name and address, (minus customer email) and generating a shipping label and DC #, and then insert the DC tracking number into the original P account so that the hold will be released shortly after delivery instead of waiting the entire 21 days, will P link the two accounts together through the DC #?

In the days before stealth, I had several accounts linked together by name/ip/phone, etc, and I sometimes noticed that one P would pick up the mailing details and DC# from another.

I wondered if apparently unconnected P accounts search each other for common data such as DC#'s, and use them to link accounts or if this only happens in previously connected/linked accounts.

I would think that the volume of data points involved would make the needed processing time cost prohibitive for just a random 'fishing expedition'.

Have any of you seen separate E or P accounts linked through DC#?

[jeffweico]

There is nothing in a delivery confirmation number that will trace specifically to you (there is no shipper number or account number for a mailer in the DCN).

However, the way you are doing it is playing with fire.

I wouldn't count on a lack of processing power to keep me safe here. I don't know how much processing power eBay has, but it gets cheaper every day. And with good database software like Oracle you don't necessarily NEED a ton of processing power to find stuff like this.

I am NOT an IT expert, but in my last job the IT Director always said that Jeff is not an IT person, but he knows enogh about it to be DANGEROUS to the IT Department

In other words, I don't know how to set up or run Oracle, but I know what it is capable of.

Others may have a different view, but my stealth methodology has always been to eliminate ANY possible way of linking accounts. So, maybe you will be OK doing this, but I am just saying that I wouldn't do it.

Good Luck!

[madmuppet303]

I didn't know you could manually generate a shipping label with Paypal. That's news to me. Does anyone know the steps to generating a label.

Thanks

[dallis]

This is the link:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now

Log into your account and past it into your browser bar, it'll come up, and you input address, etc. I've used it to send packages to family, certified letters, etc.

You can use P (at least for now) to generate any kind of a shipping label. Far better than going to the Post Office. :D

[madmuppet303]

I never knew that. That's awesome. I had a return just a couple of days ago and this would have been useful.

Thanks dallis.

[FandangoKango]

I have inputed many tracking numbers over the course of the year in different accounts with only the last 4 numbers being different and had no problems up till now that make me think I was linked due to tracking numbers.