Mail box addresses and other eb sellers

[JomJarr]

Just a quick question really.

I've found a Mail Box company who are fairly local, have good reviews, good address..

However, I did a quick google of their address and postcode with various other terms and found at least one other seller on eB / Amazon selling using the same company.

Does this matter? Can I be brought down by them or will manual review show it as a kind of business park thing (that's how the address reads)?

Is it a bad idea to set up separate stealths using the same company too?

Thanks in advance!

[SimpleX]

I was wondering about this too, as who knows the history of an address we all decide to use for stealth?

[rsot]

I would say a manual review would cause problems. But if you not operating in a high risk manner, you could get away with it. I am a huge fan of postal boxes but I admit my knowledge of UK is weaker. I would still jump on the opportunity to experiment

[JomJarr]

Originally Posted by SimpleX

I was wondering about this too, as who knows the history of an address we all decide to use for stealth?

yeah, in the long run, a large proportion of physical addresses and IP addresses will have multiple ebay accounts associated with them.

eb / pp will have to change their system or at least lower the importance of some data in working out who's who. Or they'll eventually ban far too many people. PP's reputation is already effecting their business away from eb as some business press report linked to on here was describing.

But we unfortunately have to live with the here and now, how they handle things today. I guess it's always a gamble once you've been banned - nothing is certain so might as well make a few accounts in different ways.

[JomJarr]

Originally Posted by rsot

I would say a manual review would cause problems. But if you not operating in a high risk manner, you could get away with it. I am a huge fan of postal boxes but I admit my knowledge of UK is weaker. I would still jump on the opportunity to experiment

Or perhaps even the manual review would show that they were separate entities and clear things. Unless you mean when giving an address that is obviously a mail box whilst pretending it is your home address?

I guess the thing is to be as real as possible - e.g. if you're going to use a Mail Box like a small business would then you act like a small business. In that scenario, having an address in the same building as other businesses would make perfect sense.

I'll give it a go and take up the opportunity as you suggest..

[Ebayorbust]

Originally Posted by JomJarr

Or perhaps even the manual review would show that they were separate entities and clear things. Unless you mean when giving an address that is obviously a mail box whilst pretending it is your home address?

I guess the thing is to be as real as possible - e.g. if you're going to use a Mail Box like a small business would then you act like a small business. In that scenario, having an address in the same building as other businesses would make perfect sense.

I'll give it a go and take up the opportunity as you suggest..

Your best way to set up is to use the mail forwarding address as the "business" address and not a home address. Makes more sense when it comes to sending in documents to remove limits etc.

Maybe consider more than one address associated with a Paypal and ebay account.

[JomJarr]

With that idea i guess that means that you don't have to use your ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name for payments to bank or post (use your business name instead), whilst still having a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name registered with eb / pp on your personal address.

will that mean less of a weighting on your ⊗⊗⊗⊗ personal deatils, almost a deflection from the soft underbelly of stealth?