Anecdotally, I have heard of several private "sales" of eBay IDs.
Some right here in Australia.
Phil
JR wrote:
Michael,
In theory, according to eBay guidelines, no you can't sell your
account to anyone else. In practice, how will they know if you do this
if you don't tell them? They don't check... and they really don't
care... whose name is on the account or whose name is on the credit
card they have on file for the account -- they have proven over and
over that by their inability to keep people they've banned from
creating new accounts. Also, many eBay accounts are set up as a
business, using a business name with multiple employees of the
business handling the account, so just the fact that a new email
address or new person was dealing with the public through the account
wouldn't cause eBay any concern. So, if you quietly sell your eBay
account to someone, unless you make the transaction pubic, no one is
going to know.
Or, let's take the example of a big company, like say, Heritage.
Heritage does a lot of business on eBay under the Heritage company
name. Now, does anyone seriously believe that if some other big
company comes along and buys Heritage from the current owners that
eBay is going to tell them they can no longer use the existing eBay
account for Heritage -- that they must start over on eBay with a new
name and zero feedback? I don't think so.
So, like so many other eBay rules, it is not enforceable. I know for a
fact that eBay accounts change owners all the time.
PS -- why did eBay just send you a boiler-plate notice as a bidder on
the COCONUTS cards meekly stating that the seller was not longer a
member of eBay and the auction was cancelled, with no more details
than that? Two reasons:
1) It's easy. Just have a standard, non-specific letter which covers
all situations and send that out automatically. You don't have to
get staff involved and worry about phrasing more specific details.
2) It covers their ass legally. If they gave specific details, then
the banned member could have grounds for filing a lawsuit, claiming
defamation of character and damage to their business. Even if the
details were true and eBay could prove it, they would still have the
expense and hassle of doing so in court. Easier just to say "this
person is no longer a member of eBay and the auction is cancelled." No
liability on something like that.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Michael B <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:43
*Subject:* [MOPO] CAN YOU BUY SOMEONE'S EBAY ACCOUNT ????
CAN YOU BUY SOMEONE'S EBAY ACCOUNT ???? thus giving the illusion that
you have a good feedback history?
similarly, if i change my ebay screen-name, does my feedback carry over???
mbb
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