Update Email

[callycat1]

When I signed up for ebay more than 20 years ago, I created an account  using my hotmail email.   I no longer use my hotmail email.  However I've accumulated a lot of great feedback under the ebay account that's associated with the hotmail account over the years. 

Sometime in the last 20 years, I must have accidently signed into or created an account on ebay using my gmail email.  My gmail is my primary email.  I use it for everything.  Later, I tried to update the email address for my ebay account to my gmail email, but the system says I already have an account under that email. 

To my knowledge, there's no feedback under the ebay account associated with my gmail email.  At most, I accidentally used the account once, if ever.  I want to permanently close the account that's associated with my gmail account.  I then want to update the email address for my primary ebay account (the one that's associated with my hotmail) to my primary email with gmail.  Is this possible?

At this point, the ONLY reason I still maintain this old hotmail account is for ebay.  I really want to permanently dump that old email.  But I can't as long as I'm unable to move the ebay account associated with the hotmail account to my primary email with gmail.  Is there any solution?

Thanks. 

[eburtonlab]

Each eBay account needs a unique email address. If your current gmail address is already associated with a different eBay account, you will not be able to use that exact address.

There may be a workaround that lets you use a variation of that address that points to the same inbox, though:

https://lifehacker.com/your-gmail-account-has-unlimited-addresses-1849809691

Closing your eBay account associated with your gmail address may not be necessary, and the address may not be freed up immediately anyway by doing so.

If you create a variant gmail address for that eBay account, and possibly a different variant for your main eBay account, both accounts will receive email at your gmail inbox. After thirty days or so has passed, you may be able to reclaim the original gmail address for your main account, I think.