posted on December 29, 2003 09:07:30 AM new
I'm considering changing my eBay user name due to nosy friends and other dealers who like to compare notes. I know this sounds petty, but it seems like whenever I find something that is a hot seller that nobody else in this area even bothers to pick up at yard sales and I put it up for sale on eBay and it gets good money...then all of a sudden, dealers that I constantly see at yard sales and who snoop at my auctions seem to be walking away with this stuff that they would otherwise leave behind...the stuff I was selling. Also I'm just sick of them making comments about my auctions, although usually they are favorable. I also came up with a nice logo and a banner that some of them ripped off to put into their own auctions. I would just rather keep prying eyes away. And hopefully nobody will find out what my new user name is if I change it.
Therefore, I would like to know what the pros and cons (as far as eBay goes) to simply changing a user name. If I've read it right, your feedback goes along with the new name - right?
posted on December 29, 2003 11:11:18 AM new
Sounds like you have good reasons for changing your name. Don't forget to register your current name again in (i think) 30 days or it could go to a competitor.
posted on December 29, 2003 11:14:39 AM new
If you change your name and your snoops and competitors check on you within the 30 days they will see your new user ID anyways.
To avoid the nosy ones you are almost forced to start a whole new ID I think. Even if they missed checking on you for 30 days they could probably trace your new ID if they remembered anyone you dealt with because they could just check the feedback.
posted on December 29, 2003 11:16:34 AM new
If you do change your ID, , this time don't tell anyone what it is and save yourself a lot of hassles. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on December 29, 2003 11:30:10 AM new
I have 2 user names. One I use for my main selling and 1 I use to sell things I dont want
family members to know I'm selling. You could create a second one and switch over slowly while you build feedback and keep selling slow stuff on the old one so know one suspects you have a different one.
posted on December 29, 2003 11:34:51 AM new
Set up a new (separate) eBay selling account
with a different (separate) email address from your main User ID. Start selling with this new User ID and let your main account have no buying or selling activity for 90 days or more. I would change the old (main) account with a different
User ID after that time (90 days). You can
always resume selling on your main User ID
after that time frame if you want.
Pros: Throws nosy people off your selling activity.
What they don't know won't hurt them.
Cons: Potential bidders think you have no track record for selling even though you do (on another account).
I've changed my main User ID 3 times in 4 years
with no problems, sales-wise. I currently have 5
separate User IDs with 5 separate email addresses.
Also, where it says "location" on eBay:
State your location in vague terms like
'Midwest' (for example) so the nosy ones
won't spot you that way either. That goes
for ALL of your User IDs.
[ edited by beatnikera on Dec 29, 2003 11:43 AM ]
[ edited by beatnikera on Dec 29, 2003 11:44 AM ]
