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I've been banned from selling on eBay and I get around it by having multiple Windows 10 VMs (running on proxmox) with 4G USB dongles passed through to each machine. It keeps everything tidy with no chance of me ever making a mistake and getting found out.

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This might be silly to mention, but wouldn’t a VPN suffice? Even a VPN set to “always on” in a VM? Another option would be to stand up a t2.micro on AWS and then dynamic port forward web traffic via “ssh -D 7777 $awshost” and use a browser proxy.

eBay isn't just looking at source IP addresses, they do other types of fingerprinting as well.

Do tell! I'll be terribly disappointed if you say something like "browser fingerprinting" though.

For example: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ebay-port-sca...

What exactly are you selling?

Thousands of different items that I import from China. I've got a lot of money invested in inventory so I can't risk having my business shutdown by eBay's algorithm or $2/h "service" team again. eBay stealth OPSEC is the only way to have any sort of job security in this game.

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