hi one of my relatives in the same house has been suspended for something daft

they reckon they take out anyone to do with that acount in the same household if they wish.

someones told me they go of your IP address but surely they cant do that

what happens if innocent accounts use the same computer

just wondering if Its Chinese whispers or whether I can simply Hide my IP if so



thanks chris

It would be difficult to hide your IP address from ebay especially if you wanted to bid- this is assuming you're on broadband of course (where you'll mostly have a static IP address, dial-up IPs generally change each time you log on). You could use something like Torpark to become anonymous for normal surfing but not sure it would work with a secure connection (ie after the Ebay login) and you'ld be sending your secure connection via the various nodes in the Torpark system... not sure how I'd feel about that....

Are you sure he hasn't had one of thoose spoof emails?
You know, You account has been suspended, follow this link to log in.........
If it was a spoof and he used the link, then his account would probably have been raided by now



[Edited on 8/2/2007 by nitram38]

hi no we know to go through ebay

I would be surprised to find that they used IP addresses for this purpose, most IP's are still dynamically assigned i.e. all the cable telcos use dhcp and a lot of BT resellers are the same, so it would be a pointless exercise (although that possibly wouldn't matter to ebay )

Cheers

Alex

Virtaully all broadband connections use dynamic IP on a weekly basis.

so cant see that they can use that.

If they do log into the router as relase its ip and then request a fresh one.

They could use the Mac address but thats another issue

regards

Agriv8

Just use an anonymizing proxy.
I doubt they'd ban per IP address as some ISPs use caching proxy servers which is where your visit will appear to come from.