When you  say the number of people in the office accessing the account from
a single IP address, I'm confused, is this an employee using eBay from work?
Why would other people at the same company be accessing the same account?
Or is this actually the company itself (seems likely with 30K items listed),
and multiple employees logging into the account?

If it's just some employee using his employer's Internet for eBay, not
seeing why this is the ISP's responsibility to fix.  Seems like employee
should learn to use a VPN or proxy service or something like that.

If it's the company itself selling on eBay, it sounds like eBay is trying to
block robot bidding or sniping services with the captcha, although not sure
why that would apply to sellers.

The other thing that comes to  mind when changing their public IP fixes the
problem, is that evidently there are blacklists to block VPN and proxy
server IP addresses.  And Mikrotiks that got hacked with a SOCKS proxy can
put an ISP dynamic pool address permanently on these blacklists.  In which
case the next customer who gets that pool address will have the same
problem.  I'm not sure if you are saying this customer has a dynamic IP
address, or a reservation that you modify.

-----Original Message-----
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 10:33 AM
To: Animal Farm <[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] Ebay Captcha

One of my Customers does a lot of selling on Ebay (they currently have 
30k+ items listed).  Starting about 2 months ago, at random periods,
between 1-10 days, Ebay starts sending them through a captcha at every page
move.  And not just 1 captcha, they have to enter a captcha 3 times every
time they move between pages, and they have to change pages 3 times to
complete an order.  Changing their WAN ip address resolves the issue, until
it happens again.  Calling Ebay, Ebay will open a ticket, but nothing ever
happens, after going through the usual Reboot your Computer, reboot your
Router script. I'm guessing it has to do with the number of people in the
office accessing the account from the single IP Address, but I can't figure
out any pattern to when it happens.  Has anyone had luck contacting the
security department at Ebay?

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