Odd EBay names? Answered:)

[dragonlady]

Edit: names deleted as I have my answers. Thank you!

I think something funny is going on but I may be leaping to conclusions.

Last week I sold some doll accessories on eBay, the name looks like a spambot name and also had 0 feedback. But since the paid immediately I sent it right out and tracking shows it was delivered Monday so it was a real address.

I just sold a mlp and the buyer also has an odd name and also has 0 feedback. They have paid already.

My worry is they are decoy addresses and people are using stolen credit cards. I know I'm making it sound like the movie of the week but it just seems...odd. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thank you for any help!

[SunbeamV]

I recently signed up for ebay, as in a few months ago, and the signup page has a feature where it'll randomly generate some username options from the real name you entered. I suppose some of them can seem quite random since it tends to add a lot of extra numbers/letters, since there's a lot of ebay users.

For example, the first name I entered was Sunny, and a randomly generated username it gave me was sunsunn_qjqmhc. Sounds pretty random and spambot-ish, but I went with it because I was far too lazy to try and find a username of my own creation that wasn't taken. You're probably just seeing newer ebay users that used the name generator when they signed up!

[banditpony]

It also can be a Ebay guest checkout. I know part of the name has to deal with the location.

I believe when people steal CCs/PP info, they use an account already established and change the location to their own address.

[dragonlady]

Thank you so much guys! I didn't realize there was a name generator now and totally forgot about guest checkout. Glad that's settled, phew!

[Ringlets]

Thanks for posting the helpful info peeps  I had forgotten about the name generator thing myself