topic Re: Multiple personalities! in Buying

Multiple personalities!

neilonlyneil — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:40:45 GMT

I have been looking at buying a brand of sunglasses.

I've noticed that the brand I am looking at buying is being sold via a seller who appears to have a number of different eBay accounts.

The advertisements are all exactly the same in appearance and wording, the accounts are all in Melbourne, but they're all fairly recent accounts with feedback of 20 or less or thereabouts. There's lots of them so it can't be a situation where one person has copied another's listing. The photographs are even the same in layout despite the sunglasses being different designs.

I cannot think of a reason anyone would do that.

Is there a motive I am not aware of? Do I need to be wary of buying from one of these sellers?

Re: Multiple personalities!

xxstuckonstickersxx — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:59:58 GMT

alot of people have multiple accounts for various reasons, not sure why they need multis to sell identical products though, their store fees would be through the roof.

Unless they're doing it for the 30 free listings per ID. Hmmm

Re: Multiple personalities!

patchoo78 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:01:13 GMT

The sunglasses are probably fakes, but if you want them that badly just make sure you pay with PayPal and whatever you do, don't let the seller string you along until your 45 day window for opening a dispute has run out..

It woudl also help to pay with a credit/debit card if you have one, that way if you need to open a dispute and for some reason it isn't successful, you can always do a chargeback through your bank.

Re: Multiple personalities!

***super_nova*** — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:07:52 GMT

alot of people have multiple accounts for various reasons, not sure why they need multis to sell identical products though, their store fees would be through the roof.

Unless they're doing it for the 30 free listings per ID. Hmmm

Yes, 30 free listing per month is one possibility, or because they would not be able to list the same item twice on one ID.

Re: Multiple personalities!

digital*ghost — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:59:58 GMT

AFAIK, seller's aren't allowed to use multiple IDs to circumvent the duplicate listing policy - are they designer brand? Often there are selling limits placed on new sellers and they're restricted to very few brand-name products until they build up a history of good feedback for them, so that's another reason why one person would do that.

Re: Multiple personalities!

digital*ghost — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:06:22 GMT

Do I need to be wary of buying from one of these sellers?

BTW, seller's with multiple accounts is common, and that in itself isn't an immediate cause for concern - sometimes what they do with them is, though.

The circumstantial evidence isn't particularly favourable here, but not necessarily damning. On the one hand, they may welll be a genuine seller, unaware of (and/or frustrated with) certain listing policies that seem to be restricting their activities unecessarily (to them). Personally, I think there's a good, maybe better, chance that the sunglasses are fake and they're selling what they can while they can.

Don't forget the old adage - if it looks too good to be true, it probably is (especially if the price is well below average value).

Re: Multiple personalities!

neilonlyneil — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:35:01 GMT

Yes, they're designer brand and selling for $200 below retail value so the old adage is probably true in this case.

Thanks

Re: Multiple personalities!

koalablue12 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:05:20 GMT

I have noticed some funny going's on in Toongabbie?..but I think that's in Sydney, not Melbourne, 😉

Re: Multiple personalities!

t0psales — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:57:47 GMT

yes I have also Koala, but he seems to be above ebay rules.

And if you question him you get abusive emails.

Re: Multiple personalities!

davewil1964 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:50:22 GMT

Throwing mud is not the best way of building a house.

Why do it then?

Re: Multiple personalities!

koalablue12 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:15:55 GMT

:^O :^O :^O :^O :^O :^O

Re: Multiple personalities!

annies_fancy_dress — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:59:21 GMT

What's with TOONGABBBIE koalablue?

I post there though I'm "in" the next suburb.

Toonie has the best P.O. 🙂

but no Fruit/vege shop anymore 😞

Re: Multiple personalities!

letscleanupmycupboards — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 03:09:29 GMT

What about multiple sellers using the one PayPal account? Dealt with several sellers from different areas in Europe and it always comes up with the same PayPal email address even though they don't seem to be associated with each other as sellers (different terms pricing and postage for the same types of items.

Re: Multiple personalities!

lyndal1838 — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:13:33 GMT

FIVE YEARS Cupboards..................you should knowbetter by now.

Just to set your mind at rest.....you can link up to 8 ebay accounts to the same paypal account.

The sellers must be associated in some way.....just because they are in different areas does not mean they are not connected.

Re: Multiple personalities!

letscleanupmycupboards — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:22:35 GMT

Lyndal I do know better. I just wanted to dredge up the oldest post I could find and comment on it.

Been a very stressful day today and caffeine is broken.

Re: Multiple personalities!

digital*ghost — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 07:47:59 GMT

@letscleanupmycupboards wrote:
What about multiple sellers using the one PayPal account? Dealt with several sellers from different areas in Europe and it always comes up with the same PayPal email address even though they don't seem to be associated with each other as sellers (different terms pricing and postage for the same types of items.

I know there was a big thing elsewhere a while back where PayPal ceased services in one European country as they couldn't reach a resolution with some financial body over there, which then left hundreds, probably thousands, of sellers on the site in question with no way to receive payment for their goods.

I am pretty sure that a solution such as a PayPal account registered in a country where it is acceptable, possibly being used by multiple sellers, was one of the options discussed on their forums. It's possible it could be a service provided by someone, anyway, if access to a PayPal account is not possible, they may just transfer funds over to individual bank accounts.