How to Select or Change Your eBay User ID

You can create your own eBay user ID or even change your existing user ID. Making up a new eBay user ID is always a pleasant chore. If you’ve never liked your real name or never had a nickname, here’s your chance to correct that situation.

You can call yourself just about anything, but remember that this ID is how other eBay users will know you. Here are some guidelines:

• Don’t use a name that would embarrass your mother.

  
  



• Don’t use a name with a negative connotation, such as scam-guy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t buy from you.

  
  



• Don’t use a name that’s too weird, you know, something like baby-vampire-penguin. People may chuckle, but they may also question your sanity.

  
  



• eBay doesn’t allow spaces in user IDs, so make sure that the ID makes sense when putting two or more words together.

  
  

  If you’re dying to have several short words as your user ID, you can use underscores or hyphens to separate them, as in super-shop-a-holic. And if you sign in to eBay for the whole day, you won’t have to worry about repeatedly typing a complicated ID.

  
  

You can change your user ID once every 30 days if you want to; however, it’s not recommended, as people come to know you by your user ID. If you change your ID, your past plays tag-along and attaches itself to the new ID. But if you change your user ID too many times, people may think you’re trying to hide something.

Nevertheless, to change your user ID, click the My eBay link, which appears at the top of most eBay pages. From your My eBay Summary page, click the My Account: Personal Information link, scroll to the User ID area, and click the Change link. Fill in the boxes, and then click the Change User ID button. You now have a new eBay identity.

eBay also has some user ID rules to live by:

• No offensive names.

  
  



• No names with eBay in them. (It makes you look like you work for eBay, and eBay takes a dim view of that.)

  
  



• No names with & (even if you do have both looks&brains).

  
  



• No names with @ (such as @Aboy).

  
  



• No symbols, such as the greater than or less than symbol (> <), and no consecutive underscores (__). (Single underscores and hyphens are fine, though.)

  
  



• No IDs that begin with an e followed by numbers, an underscore, a hyphen, a period, or dot (as in dot.com).

  
  



• No names of one letter (such as Q from Star Trek).

  
  

When you choose your user ID, make sure that it isn’t a good clue for your password. For example, if you use Natasha as your user ID, don’t choose Boris as your password. Even Bullwinkle could figure that one out.

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