posted on June 10, 2002 12:34:16 AM new
Can somebody who has been NARU'ed re-register on ebay with a different credit card? I've been getting a whole lot of deadbeats lately and they don't seem very concerned about getting NARU'ed.
[ edited by saddamhussien on Jun 10, 2002 12:35 AM ]
posted on June 10, 2002 08:27:11 AM new
was not aware buyers needed a credit card to register - only sellers. Thought all one needed for buying was an e-mail address and name and home address and possibly a tel.#.
buyhigh
posted on June 10, 2002 08:34:45 AM new
depends on what kind of email address you use to register with. if its a free web based email like hotmail then you neef a cc to register.
posted on June 10, 2002 08:39:20 AM new
Only sellers need a credit card at eBay ( both buyers and sellers need a credit card at Yahoo Auctions ).
To be registered at eBay you do need a real ISP email address and not Hotmail type of freebies unless you use a credit card. It is very difficult to register at eBay with any of the several hundred free ISPs emails as they reject 99% of them.
The average American has several different credit cards and I do not think that eBay has the ability to reject mutiple credit cards from a single user.
posted on June 10, 2002 08:46:10 AM new"was not aware buyers needed a credit card to register - only sellers"
I just opened another eBay account for buying only and used a Yahoo email address. The message I received during registration stated that since I was using an "anonymous" email address I would have to put a cc on file to complete the registration.
So, if you register using Yahoo or Hotmail (don't know about any others) you will need a cc to complete the registration.
[ edited by sulyn1950 on Jun 10, 2002 08:48 AM ]
posted on June 10, 2002 09:04:16 AM new
It wasn't always that way at eBay. Shill bidding was very easy to do. People also used the free AOL accounts that now require a credit card or checking account info. Since it was so very easy to set up a bunch of new eBay accounts in those days many eBays took their revengence on eBay sellers that had ripped them off. A cheated eBay would often setup a few new eBay accounts and bid on everything the cheater seller had and make him pay for his sins. That is still possible today but it is very difficult to do.
posted on June 10, 2002 03:08:12 PM new
I knew a number of people with AOL who used their multiple e-Bay accounts to shill their own stuff and each others Some have since been NR. due to failure to pay e-Bay bills so do not know if they could do it again if they ever get back on. Anyone know if this is still possible.
buyhigh
posted on June 10, 2002 05:10:58 PM new
The computers that check out the validity of a credit card can check out hundreds of millions of cards in a few seconds but I do not think that they can check out the card holders name and address to any great extent.
The risk of using a credit card to shill bid or retaliate on a seller or whatever is that your other legit eBay account(s) may be suspended if you get caught. There are hunderds and hundreds of free email account companies out there and several do not get rejected by eBay. That is the safer way to create a bogus account, not that I'm advocating such an act mind you.
