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Hi. I have heard about people buying/selling ebay accounts and wondered how ownership was transfered and if eBay even allow you to transfer your account to someone.
I am not selling but want to transfer my account to a friend for free as I have a lot of good feedback but can no longer afford the time to run it.
Is this possible and if so how do I go about it.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice

Steve

Hi Steve,

Welcome to AuctionCUT

The short answer is No.

Ebay will not allow transfer of accounts (whether sold or not) without their permission - and that permission is unlikely for individual accounts. It's all contained within the eBay user agreement when you sign up.

If it's a business eBay account then I suspect there may be exceptions, for instance if the business is sold.

What kind of account is it - Business or Individual?

Hi.
Thanks for getting back to me. My account is private but has in effect been a part time biz. Playing around in the personal details section of My eBay I saw I could change the name of the account holder but not the address which seems a bit daft.
Anyway thanks for your help
Steve

You can also merge accounts, say you had an old account that got negative feedback once, and you decided to make a new one, and haven't made a purchase or a sale on the old account for I think 60 days, you can merge the two, gaining all the feedback from the old one.

Hope that helps or adds some insight.

You can also merge accounts, say you had an old account that got negative feedback once, and you decided to make a new one, and haven't made a purchase or a sale on the old account for I think 60 days, you can merge the two, gaining all the feedback from the old one.

Yeap - it's always worth remembering this. Good advice.