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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

Virtual Private Network. Basically it gives you a fake IP address, but it's legal. People use them for security reasons, but also use them for unscrupulous reasons.

 

If you are permanently suspended from eBay AU, are you permanently banned from all eBay sites? I'm wondering whether John could start again (EEEK) on eBay Germany. Anyone can sign up with them without residing there.

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Sheep is right, VPN's are what CHOICE was promoting to get around the geo-blocks where Austalians were being blocked from buying software from the US such as Adobe; Australian "Tax" can cost an extra $2,000 plus for the same programs (cheaper to fly there and purchase from a shop!).

Also protects your privacy - no way to monitor who you are, what you buy, what you read etc...

Is that really true that ebay links your accounts by ISP or is there a range of checks they use?  Seems too easy to just go to the local library or something.

Does that also mean that the accounts I set up before I moved house will be totally seperate from any new ones if I'm careful about all the other info (paypal id, address and all the rest)?