{"id":6502,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"ebay-proxies-to-avoid-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/ebay-proxies-to-avoid-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping and Selling on eBay with Proxies to Avoid Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the world of online sales and resales, eBay is king. You can find pretty much anything on the site, and many people make entire careers out of the money gleaned from small business sales. Of course, you don\u2019t have to actually produce something to sell it\u2014you just have to own that thing.<\/p>\n

Over the years a large community has grown on eBay built entirely around buying items below what they\u2019re worth, then selling them at a higher price. If this sounds like your typical yard sale, estate sale, or flea market, then you know what I\u2019m talking about. That\u2019s exactly what this is, but because these sales are conducted over the internet, there\u2019s a bit more tech running the show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The most typical way that tech is used in the above scenario is through auction sniping<\/strong><\/a> . This is the process in which an automated service or program automatically bids in the very final seconds of an auction. There are plenty of services<\/strong><\/a> that you can pay to do this, or individual software programs you can download<\/strong><\/a> . For the most part, this is allowed<\/strong> (and encouraged in a way) by eBay. It doesn\u2019t thwart their rules and many members do it.<\/p>\n

But the lenience and good will stops there. eBay is known as one of the more ruthless companies when it comes to suspending or banning accounts. These bans can last a very long time (as in, forever), and can happen for a number of reasons, as defined in its long list of rule violations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re here because you want to avoid these bans<\/span>, and I\u2019m here to tell you how to do that with proxies<\/a>, specifically. I\u2019ll get into that below, but first a word of warning.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>eBay Proxy Warning<\/span><\/h2>\n

If I wasn\u2019t clear a moment ago with the word \u201cruthless\u201c you need to be paying better attention. The reality is that eBay, which is owned by PayPal<\/a>, is one of the strictest and most unforgiving companies out there when it comes to bans.<\/p>\n

The service is inherently built around exchanging goods for money, so it is imperative to eBay that you are a real person or business with real goods, or a real buyer of those goods.<\/p>\n

This warning is, therefore, more important than other proxy warnings and is actually more complicated, too. Sometimes you don\u2019t even have to be using proxies to get an account suspended or banned\u2014the red flags will go up if you try to buy or sell too many items at once, or if you break some other part of the rules.<\/p>\n

Doing this often elicits gasps of pain and confusion from legitimate sellers who then have to spend days or weeks working with eBay to undo an error, or pay for their misuse.<\/p>\n

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When eBay bans or suspends your account, it bases the ban on IP the computer and account is associated with, your email address on the account, the physical address on the account, and the name on the account. This means that if you\u2019re in a shared household and get your account banned, everyone in that house will also be banned, because you share an IP. It also means all those legitimate identifiers you used are now not available.<\/p>\n

Often this sort of blanket banning leads to overt frustration, which you might be feeling at this very moment.<\/p>\n

The complex part of this is that the best way to go about getting back into eBay is using proxies, because proxies by nature change your IP address. However, when using proxies to get around an eBay suspension or ban:<\/p>\n