Is having the same IP Address for multiple selling accounts a disadvantage ?

[Anonymous]

I have 3 selling accounts.
Is using the same IP Address is a disadvantage ?

[tazzieterror]

No, you're allowed to have multiple accounts, so there's no problem with them operating from the same IP address.

[south.coffee]

I have a fixed IP address and run 2 accounts. Even though most tracking is done by cookies, I suspect eBay can track me even with cookies cleared or using a different browser and not logged in. I suspect they use the IP address as a secondary means.

Firefox browser does a better job when it comes to privacy.

[kopenhagen5]

It would only become a problem if the accounts were bidding on each others listings. 

[Anonymous]

As ebay must by necessity give all sellers 'windows' of opportunity

it crossed my mind that several seller accounts on the same IP Address

may have to share the one window.

[Anonymous]

I did that once when I started with ebay ( 16 years ago) and boy did the stick come down hard.

My view at the time was to regard it as a 'vendor's bid' used at real estate auctions.

ebay did not agree 😞

[danieh_6]

As long as you arent banned its fine, Just note that if one gets restricted all 3 will. if you are worried use a VPN

[Anonymous]

Maybe my post seems to be about how to get away with shill bidding but it's not.

Who would shill bid in these times anyway. Your bid would most likely be the only one...lol

I am simply wondering if 3 selling accounts would have to share the visibility allocation of 1 account.

[tazzieterror]

I think only eBay could answer that, and I doubt they'd be willing to.

I doubt they would use IP address to gauge how long the sales window is open for each account, more likely you'd look at the details of the owner of the account, or the address recorded against each one.

It would be an interesting thing to investigate to try and determine how they do it, but would take quite a while to gather conclusive data.

EDIT: On further brief reflection, if you were paying for three seperate stores for example, I'd assume you'd be getting three different windows, too. 

[dontmissthese]

Great if ebay would tell us.