Introduction To eBay

Every type of product imaginable is sold on eBay. Houses, cars, boats, sporting equipment, sporting collectibles, antiques, ipods, cell phones, books, movies, jewelry, musical instruments, dolls, and clothing are some things commonly sold just to name a few.

Introduction To eBay Selling

When you sell products you need to be sure to ship everything on time according to what your description indicates. When you ship products late it affects your feedback score. Your feedback score indicates how reliable you are as seller and can mean the difference in everyone wanting to buy from you or no one at all. Low feedback scores make buyers hesitant to buy from you.

Your feedback score can be affected by many other things as well. Sending products that don't work will greatly lower it. Mailing something other than what was specified will result in negative feedback. Users also have the option to write feedback for other users to read. Normally they will give you a bad rating plus write a bad review for everyone to see.

As a seller you need to give people a method of which they can pay or method of payment. Offering multiple methods of payment will result in a greater chance of your making a sell. On ebay you can accept check, money order, credit card, debit card, and paypal. In the cases of credit and debit cards you have to verify if you accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and any other type of major cards.

All products besides digital ones, such as ebooks require, shipping. As you know there are listing fees for every product sold on ebay. Listing fees are usually only a couple dollars. Most sellers make this couple dollars back by charing a couple dollars extra for shipping. Most people never notice and it is a good way to get around the fees.

Introduction To eBay Buying

If you are the highest bidder at the end of the auction the seller has to sell you the product for the price you bid no matter how low. If you were to sell a house on ebay and it sells for a penny, that is all the bidder has to pay. If the bidder backs out of the order it is known as eBay fraud. Commiting eBay fraud carries serious consequences.

Experienced eBay sellers have the privilege to avoid that happening by putting a reserve on a auction. A reserve is a price that the maximum bid has to exceed or the buyer has the option to not sell the product. In order to be able to set reserves you have to sold or bought a certain amount of products on eBay. Most expensive products have reserves on them in order to prevent lossing money.

When buying a item on ebay make sure it has a fair return policy. If a item does not have a fair return policy you could get screwed out of alot of money. Never buy a item that has a return policy that seems unfair. This could also be a clue that the product is of low quality of may not work right.

Introduction To eBay Payment Methods

Paypal is owned by eBay. Although it can be used to pay for virtually anything on the internet, it was originally designed to be used for eBay purchases. A paypal account is like a online bank account but much safer. The first step is to deposit money from your bank account into your paypal account. After that you can safely pay for anything on the internet without worrying about hackers trying to intercept credit card data.

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