Using brothers address

[calb99]

Can anyone let me know if it's a good idea to use my brothers address for a new stealth account? He has an ebay/pp account at that address in his own real name and his last name as the same as mine. I was thinking of using my real middle name and real last name... Will ebay suspect anything?

Thanks in advance

[JamesNorth101]

No it would not be a good idea. You could get your brothers account limited.

You need a fresh address. Look at mail forwarding and rentable mail boxes

[GreenBean]

You need to be a totally new you.

Includes, name and address.

ebay suspect everything.

[calb99]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

No it would not be a good idea. You could get your brothers account limited.

You need a fresh address. Look at mail forwarding and rentable mail boxes

I've looked at some mail forwarding companies, and they use shared addresses. Won't someone have already used the address and got suspended? The other option is P.O box but that is far too expensive for me right now.

[RosieTosie]

Originally Posted by calb99

I've looked at some mail forwarding companies, and they use shared addresses. Won't someone have already used the address and got suspended? The other option is P.O box but that is far too expensive for me right now.

PO box prices vary, some are very reasonable, they don't all have sky high prices calb99, if you are successful with setting up your ebay/paypal account after the initial slow cautious building up of it you will soon start earning on it and have no problem paying your PO box fee's after the first month to six weeks.

[calb99]

Originally Posted by RosieTosie

PO box prices vary, some are very reasonable, they don't all have sky high prices calb99, if you are successful with setting up your ebay/paypal account after the initial slow cautious building up of it you will soon start earning on it and have no problem paying your PO box fee's after the first month to six weeks.

Are you talking about with Royal Mail? The cheapest I can see here - to help manage your business mail address professionally | Royal Mail Group Ltd - is £142.90 for 6 months or £250 for the year. I know this is probably nothing to a lot of people, but it's a lot for me.

[RosieTosie]

Originally Posted by calb99

Are you talking about with Royal Mail? The cheapest I can see here - to help manage your business mail address professionally | Royal Mail Group Ltd - is £142.90 for 6 months or £250 for the year. I know this is probably nothing to a lot of people, but it's a lot for me.

Have a look in google at mail forwarding services and see what you can find there, there are monthly pay options rather than paying for 6 months up front.

[calb99]

Originally Posted by RosieTosie

Have a look in google at mail forwarding services and see what you can find there, there are monthly pay options rather than paying for 6 months up front.

Thanks, I've looked at some, and they are very reasonable, but they are using shared addresses. Won't other ebayers have used them who have got suspended?

[RosieTosie]

Originally Posted by calb99

Thanks, I've looked at some, and they are very reasonable, but they are using shared addresses. Won't other ebayers have used them who have got suspended?

You have to be a bit picky and look around a bit, you can also put po box numbers into Google and compare them see which looks the best option to you, you might find something that you only have to pay for when and if you actually get post through, you could even put that's into Google, mail forwarding that only pay for when post comes through it.

[joffieJaffa]

Originally Posted by calb99

Thanks, I've looked at some, and they are very reasonable, but they are using shared addresses. Won't other ebayers have used them who have got suspended?

Don't use royal mail!!

you could add your bros address as a returns address so all your returns go there.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by joffieJaffa

Don't use royal mail!!

you could add your bros address as a returns address so all your returns go there.

That would cause a link as well - don't use as an "added address"

[joffieJaffa]

Originally Posted by rsot

That would cause a link as well - don't use as an "added address"

too true , didn't read the first post correctly