email already taken

[5paceman007]

my new email address eBay say's is already in use, how do I find out how that happened ?

[padi*0409]

@papermoon.lady

It's been seen that at least one company "recycles" their email addresses (Yahoo) there may be others that do it as well. Possibly this has happened to the OP.

https://www.bespokecomputing.com/happens-old-email-addresses/

[papermoon.lady]

I think I have Yahoo email addresses I haven't used in a long time, but I could always log in, although they had been deactivated and all emails had gone. I don't know for sure for how long I had not logged in though. I will certainly try to log in more often, as I don't really like the idea of recycled email addresses...

[papermoon.lady]

Maybe I could log in even if my account had been deactivated because nobody had tried to create a new Yahoo account with my username...