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This used to be sooooo easy to do. Many of the old eBay accounts in the late 90's used to be email addresses, like for example ; JaneDoe@aol.com. (Most people just used an email address instead of a user name on eBay back then.) All we did was go to an ebay account of someone with tons of feedback and go back to page 1 of his feedback. Most of the time his first page of feedback was from 1997-1999. We found people who left feedback using an email addresses as thier user names. (As you may know- if your on AOL and you deactive your screen name, after 6 months you lose it and someone else can create it.) So we just created the same email address, went to ebay, and had the password emailed to the new email address. Easy Peasy Japaneasy. Then ebay made it so you couldn't use an email address as your user name- which was fine because there was plenty of old accounts people made and left, then left AOL- so there was tons of accounts. Then ebay made it so you had to put it a zipcode- that ended that. But we never did it scam someone, it was just an easy way to get an ebay account since they suspend you for anything.