Some have multi accounts on eBay. Multi eBay accounts are connected to a PayPal account. Is it safe? Do anyone have experience it?
Why would you need more than one ebay account? Only things I can think of are scamming and if you planned on selling many types of things so have one for each category but even then...
There are various reasons why one would have multiple eBay accounts. One reason would be to use one account to purchase items and a separate account to sell items. But of course, there are also a lot of negative reasons why people have multiple eBay accounts.
I had multiple accounts, one for personal and one for more store. I started selling phones, which I had brand new in boxes, and an ebay glitch caused the products I was selling not to show up. Therefore I listed 20, I had 50 phones but wanted to only sell 3 a night. Therefore I finally saw a listing and was like wow that took like 20 tries before it listed. Then out of no where the other 19 showed. I was like ZOMFG!?!?! So I went crap and had a few people I knew on bid on them and then I had about 5 left that were still under so my brother logged in on my personal account and placed 5 bids to get the bids to reserve so I wasn't out of pocket. Then the auctions finished and I was rejoicing going thank god I' not out of pocket and the payments started coming through. After the 6th payment I received a suspension email from ebay for 'shill' bidding, even though they went hundreds of dollar over the bids my brother made from my personal account. Ebay then didn't let me log on and customers were calling me a scam artist and I couldn't contact them through ebay, and ebay didn't bother to help or respond to my hundreds of emails I sent them saying WTF? Anyway I ended up refunding all my customers, plus $10 for the inconvenience and I felt bad, even though it wan't my fault, and apologising for ebays mistake, even though they probably thought I was trying to rip them off. Then I said screw ebay and have never dealt with them again. So now they are still trying to get $500 odd dollars from me for the store and the final sales 'tax' even though they were in the wrong by not contacting me. I will not pay this money as I ended up with nothing but hairloss, extra aging, and anger from the situation. And this is not the sort of person I wanted to be at age 20, plus as you can see I'm extremely generous and feel bad about things I had no control over. Therefore I say 1) Stay away from ebay 2) Consider changing to alertpay 3) if you want paypal and ebay make ONE account and make sure you print off all their terms and conditions so you can fight their debt collection agency when they come chasing you, like my situation......ongoing....but I have documents that prove they were legally in the wrong, plus I like to think I'm a smart kinda guy. Hope this helps mate...
Yes, having your brother bid on the items (probably no intention to buy them) is a violation of e-bays terms of service. Basically it's like this, you were trying to protect yourself and not do any wrong. However e-bay thinks you were trying to inflate the prices which has nothing to do with having a second account. You should have contacted e-bay rather than have your brother bid. E-bay should work with people rather than blindly try to dictate punishments. My suggestion would be to try and call e-bay's fraud department (or whoever shut you down), explain what happened, and see if they will work with you. If they don't, hang up, call a rep from the busniess/store customer services department & see if they will refund your fees. Be sure to be reasonable and polite (at least to start with). ---If you are doing business (50 phones * hundreds each= >$10,000) with any firm you NEED to know their rules. Especially something as structured as e-bay, they are well known for being difficult and policing their rules well. You have other options for selling your stuff besides on e-bay. If it makes you feel better they run their affiliate program about the same. I don't exactly approve of eBay in General.
I use to buy playstation with games and then resell everything seperately obviously i am not going to use the same account.