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All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Every new eBay account I make gets suspended 30 minutes after converting it into a seller account, even when I haven't listed on it or even added payment details yet.

I register the account and do some browsing for a week before converting it into a seller account, and once that's done a ban will come in 30 minutes.

I've tried Firefox through Sandboxie and Firefox portable and the same thing happens.

I use a Three dongle for IPs, a new SIM card for each account. Since I don't even get to add a payment method the VCC can't be a factor.

I'd appreciate any assistance.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

When I go on live chat asking what the problem is they tell me some crap about being high risk and refuse to reinstate the account. I've had enough at this point; it wasn't like this a few weeks ago.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

When you say you are using a 3 dongle, are you using a 3 UK sim with free roaming in Greece?

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

That's right. It should look like I'm still in the UK to eBay.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Try making business accounts from the outset perhaps. If you make ten accounts and three account surimvive then that's not bad.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

I tried and business accounts just get suspended straight away, which I guess is because they are immediately set up as seller accounts.

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Do you have other IP options? Another 3G/4G option for example?

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

I could try EE instead (I will try that now), but I'm 99% sure that the same crap will just happen again.

EDIT: I'm going to try EE and Linken Sphere, just to make sure it's not my computer. I've been losing my mind over this.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Three is well abused in uk, try with ee more likely they will suspend but reinstate after you contact them,

Seems like ebay now getting fingerprint or something about machine where account created

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

It still didn't work! WTF is wrong with eBay?

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Are you using vmware? Or different user account? Try different machine

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

What message you receive from eBay when you are suspended?

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

I explained in the opening post that I used Sandboxie and portable Firefox, but I did try VMware and it made no difference at all.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Hello [user],

Your eBay account was suspended because recent account activity has raised serious security concerns. We've taken this precaution to protect our members while we make sure that the activity doesn't cause harm -- however unintentionally -- to the eBay Community.

You won't be able to use eBay in any way. This includes using another existing account or registering a new account.

Any outstanding selling fees are due immediately, and any amounts that you haven't previously disputed will be charged to the billing method currently on file.

Regards,

eBay Customer Service

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Try different machine altogether

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

You may have the chance to call them for reinstate it
depending by the answers you give

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

There's a method to find out what's causing your accounts to get suspended.
See this post

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Read op post none of this applies to him, ebay recently changed their technology and getting more strict maybe getting ready for their own payment method

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Nothing wrong with 3 UK for making accounts, I've made plenty of successful accounts with 3

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

Recently ? Even mail.co.uk does not allow to signup from three now for email account

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EE is dreadful for IPs most the time

Three is very very good.

I would stick to Three - Unless because your overseas your IP pool is being really limited (which I dont think is the case) then I dont expect your ISP is the issue here.

Re: All new accounts suspended in 30 minutes
 

My last batch of accounts was made a month ago, I used a mixture of emails; gmail, gmx, outlook