Eagerbeader
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posted on January 28, 2001 08:38:55 PM
Hi all,
I was trying to create a new Ebay account today (don't want to give up the old one just yet..my name is unique). All righty..I went through the form, got the confirmation email and tried to use my email address as the user ID and it said that you can't use the @ symbol as part of your user name, unless that is your Ebay email address. Well..it was [email protected]
Does anyone know of a work around to this? I see folks with their email addresses as their user IDs so it can be done..help!!
Dawn
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bkmunroe
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posted on January 28, 2001 10:39:53 PM
You have to have a seperate email address for each account. Is [email protected] the email address for your old account?
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Eagerbeader
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posted on January 29, 2001 04:20:16 AM
No..its not. It is strange.
Dawn
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BlondeSense
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posted on January 29, 2001 11:17:05 AM
You don't have to do anything, you are already there.
If you signed up with the email address [email protected] and got confirmation, you should be set. My understanding is your email address will be your userID by default unless you go in and change it.
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avaloncourt
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posted on January 29, 2001 11:55:25 AM
eagerbeader is onto something. It appears that ebay isn't allowing the use of any punctuation in user ID's now. I've been wanting to set up a second ID with a name that reflects the kind of item sold. Since I have a domain name which does that well, I figured I would use my email address at that domain for that. Nope.
Ebay no longer allows new user IDs to be [email protected] or even just wherever.com. The period and @ symbol are now disallowed characters. I'm sure they would claim that they are saving us all from spam but we all know the truth is that if you can't have an email address as a user name, someone can't write to you directly without doing a lookup. Same goes for using domain names as user names. Now they can't go to a website directly.
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BlondeSense
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posted on January 29, 2001 12:27:15 PM
you can't have an email address as a user name.
You can, if that's the one you signed up with. If your email address you use to sign up at ebay is [email protected], that will be your default userID. You can not, however, sign up with [email protected] and change it to [email protected].
Edited to add: the userID [email protected] exists on ebay (as opposed to being an invalid userID), it just isn't confirmed yet.
[ edited by BlondeSense on Jan 29, 2001 12:33 PM ]
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Eagerbeader
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posted on January 29, 2001 02:10:47 PM
Well..I sent a customer support question to ebay..but they are absolutely no help.
Got a canned response back that says, "yes you are registered, but now you need to confirm your account..go here..here and here." Well that is where it won't let me use my email as my user ID.
I hate their support..they never answer your question straight..just waltz around the issue.
See in the confirmation screen they ask you to pick a user ID..I picked my email address and it says, "illegal characters" so I leave the userid blank, hoping it will use the default..but then it says, "you must pick a user id"
I definitely think this is their way of not letting users use their email address.
Any other help??
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dejavu
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posted on January 29, 2001 02:13:07 PM
..that's weird I just changed mine to blah blah blah @ juno.com
works fine.
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Eagerbeader
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posted on January 29, 2001 02:21:14 PM
Okay..I made up a user id..then went and changed it to my email address and it worked fine. Too strange..but that is Ebay for you.
Thanks to all who assisted.
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zeenza
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posted on January 29, 2001 04:50:28 PM
I just gave an old ebay account of mine to a couple. We switched most things manually on my end first including the email address. (personal data etc) Then they went in to change the password.
Their user id reads [email protected]. So, unless they go in to change it (after 30 days) it will remain as shown above.
EAGER
I want to change my main ID as well to an email address. But loosing a unique name is a tough one. I would sell my name if it was not against the law at Ebay.
I guess an option would be to list it for sale on a different auction site, just like domain names. But even then you expose yourself to the Ebay Police.
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Eagerbeader
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posted on January 29, 2001 05:22:55 PM
That is why I did it this way..I didn't want to give up the name EagerBeader..but I wanted to have a back up account in case they decide to start blocking email addresses.
So now I am "EagerBeader" and "[email protected]" on Ebay.
Kind of my safety net.
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gc2
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posted on January 29, 2001 07:59:23 PM
My user ID is the same as the name in my email address, e.g. the email address for "abc" is "[email protected]".
I have always had my email address in my repetitive text. Will eBay disallow this?
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