clubesquire
Community Member
In response to lyndal1838

on ‎01-08-2018 06:06 PM

Yes Lyndal, but the only way it can be done is to close the account, the one with the wanted name, completely. Apparently after 30 days all record of it is purged from the system.

 

I did double check. Gawd I hope that’s enough!

 

But thanks for the warning.

 

Melina.

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collect247
Community Member
In response to clubesquire

on ‎01-08-2018 06:13 PM

WOW really?

Because I wasn't able to reuse any of my previous IDs.

Might try again lol

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collect247
Community Member
In response to collect247

on ‎01-08-2018 06:21 PM

Well what do you know, it worked haha

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clubesquire
Community Member
In response to collect247

on ‎01-08-2018 06:23 PM

That’s good to know. Thanks for the feedback 🙂

 

Wine time .... hehe!!

 

Mel.

brerrabbit585
Community Member
In response to clubesquire

on ‎01-08-2018 09:15 PM

These days all usernames become available for general use 30 days after they were last used. I'd imagine with so many people now having multiple IDs there would have been a shortage of possible names if they didn't start recycling them.
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lyndal1838
Honored Contributor
In response to brerrabbit585

on ‎01-08-2018 09:41 PM

Thanks for the updated info brerrabbit......it is years since I started both of my IDs and I was knocked back on several choices because they had been used too recently.

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davewil1964
Community Member
In response to brerrabbit585

on ‎01-08-2018 10:49 PM

It must have changed, then.

 

When I changed my store ID to the current one, my preferred ID had been inactive for about 10 years, but I still couldn't get it.

 

Instead I had to pretend to be Chinese by including an Australian identifier in the name.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
In response to davewil1964

on ‎02-08-2018 11:51 AM

It changed at least three years ago. A friend of mine discovered that the ID they really wanted was available again and they snatched it up in August 2015.

At the time I was wishing I'd kept a lookout for brerrabbit being available because I found it was now owned by a different member to the person who originally had it. I know because the first one was in the US and the second one wasn't. I never thought of being a Chinese rabbit but just added numbers.
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