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Is It Possible to Change the "Member since" Date on the "About" Page?
Is it possible for us to change the following information on our profile as pictured, the Member since date?
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kh-stanley1
·2 years agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
pburn
·3 years agoNo. That's the date you registered your account with eBay. Why would you feel it necessary to change that? Wouldn't that be a bit, well, misleading?
borntodeal
OP3 years agoWe are asking if it is possible to change the date. We have no desire to change it. Someone questioned us about the 1999 date and they claim the date can be changed and we disagreed. We wanted to ask the community to confirm that this date can never be changed. Is that correct?
firesteel_surplus
·3 years agoI have to admit this was an interesting question and one I haven't seen.
But my answer would be a no on it too. Whoever thought that date could be changed must be wearing an outdated tin foil hat.
Go buy them a new one and send them home and tell them to watch a rerun of Happy Days. All will be well in eBayLand.
Mike
Firesteel Surplus
baileyknightslarry
·2 years agoThis actually happened to me. I created my account in 2010 with email proof that it was open, but it says member since 2017! I wish it could reflect the actual date.
albertabrightalberta
·2 years agoThat's not possible.
You may have another account (even maybe with a similar name) that you opened in 2010 but your @baileyknightslarry was opened in 2017.
baileyknightslarry
·2 years agoI have proof that the username is exactly the same. With the date that the email was sent, as well as what I ordered. It’s a username I used for everything- it includes my high school’s mascot, and my name. I swear to god letter for letter each character is exactly the same.
gone.c-33
·2 years agoIs it possible you hadn’t used your account in a while, that eBay deactivated it, and that you signed up again in 2017?
Unavailable member
·2 years agoSo where is this proof you speak of?
You really kept an email for 14 yrs?
Your eBay ID may be the same letter for letter, but if eBay deleted the one you supposedly signed up with in 2010 you could use that eBay ID again since there would be no trace of the old one.
lacemaker3
·2 years agoThere was a hacking incident in 2014, IIRC, after which eBay required all accounts to change their password.
Any accounts that did not change their password, were closed down. Your current account has never received any feedback, so it is quite possible that your original account was shut down, if you weren't active then and didn't see the notice. And then you opened a new account with the same user ID when you came back about 3 years or so later. If you tried to log in to a closed account, it's actually fairly easy to just create a new account with the same ID. User IDs can be reused after 30 days have elapsed since the ID was changed.
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoAre you talking about your join date on the boards or on the actual site itself?
Unavailable member
·2 years agoWhat you described isn’t possible you more than likely signed up in 2010, eBay may have deleted that account for inactivity and you opened a new one in 2017. Your profile says 2017. No possible way could it have been changed.