When a suspension happens, it can take time to move past the pain and feel safe again. At this point, many sellers make the move to open eBay “stealth” or “ghost” accounts. This is a second eBay account, often from a third-party provider, which is unconnected to the first eBay account. The stealth account, in theory, provides a clean slate to continue trading.
Stealth accounts are all about brushing problems under the carpet, instead of facing them head-on. By using them, sellers continue the trauma and negativity of the first suspension indefinitely.
From a practical angle, if the underlying issues are not fixed, the stealth account may also be suspended in time. There’s also all the work needed to build up a new eBay account from scratch.
If you are caught using a stealth account to get around a suspension, there’s no innocent explanation you can give to eBay. Sellers often just fall into a repeating cycle of new stealth accounts and new suspensions.