Using account for excessive purchasing?

So a friend of mine bought a couple of stealths a week ago.

He gets ebay gift cards at 10-20% discount from somewhere, and is looking to leverage that opportunity for reselling goods on the stealth ebays and Amazon.

I read this condition on eBay's Terms and Conditions for Gift cards (http://pages.ebay.com/giftcard/terms_conditions.html) -

No more than a total of $2000 in Gift Cards may be redeemed per day, and no more than a total of $5000 in Gift Cards may be redeemed per calendar month. Further, you may only redeem a maximum of eight Gift Cards in any single transaction (and fewer if you are redeeming Gift Cards in combination with other redemption codes, such as coupons or vouchers).

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I am kind of wondering, would it be safe to actually purchase $5k worth of stuff every month on each of the accounts or will they consider this as some sort of suspicious activity (despite the gift cards being 101% legit)?

jainy25 said:

I am kind of wondering, would it be safe to actually purchase $5k worth of stuff every month on each of the accounts or will they consider this as some sort of suspicious activity (despite the gift cards being 101% legit)?

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If you started doing this on an account without constant activity I think more lights would go off at ebay than at a gay carnival.

toml3030 said:

If you started doing this on an account without constant activity I think more lights would go off at ebay than at a gay carnival.

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Hahaha !!

But the cards are completely legit. And then they do give the 5k limit per month as per their own ToS. So why should it be a problem?

jainy25 said:

He gets ebay gift cards at 10-20% discount from somewhere ...despite the gift cards being 101% legit

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There's a fat chance the gift cards are not "101% legit" if he's getting them at a 10-20% discount. Most likely stolen credit cards. That being said, if he's going to resell items it would probably be best to create a listing and then use the gift card once an order is placed and order it directly to the buyer to avoid paying shipping twice.

jainy25 said:

But the cards are completely legit. And then they do give the 5k limit per month as per their own ToS. So why should it be a problem?

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There's no chance those cards are legit, and even if they were, so many gift card transactions in one account will set off alarms for money laundering.