The Essentials of Joining the eBay Community
Registering and signing in with eBay is an easy process, and once you become an eBay member, you can start bidding in online auctions and auctioning off your own stuff. The following articles give you the low-down on getting your start on eBay.
How to Register for an eBay Account
Before you can buy or sell on eBay, you need to register. You can register as a business or as an individual on eBay; however, if you don’t quite have a business up and running, you may want to register [more…]
How Much Personal Info Should You Give eBay?
Once you’re a full-fledged, officially registered member of the eBay community, you may see an eBay pop-up window giving you the option to provide more information about yourself. These optional questions [more…]
Getting Help When You Register on eBay
If you run into difficulties with your eBay registration, eBay's customer-support folks can help you complete the registration process. Just follow the Contact Us link on the eBay home page to reach eBay's [more…]
How to Create a Good eBay User Password
Choosing a good password on eBay is not as easy (but is twice as important) as it may seem. Whoever has your password can, in effect, be you at eBay — running auctions, bidding on auctions, and leaving [more…]
Know Your Responsibilities as an eBay User
When you register with eBay, you are asked to agree to the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy. At this point, you promise to play well with others, not to cheat, and to follow the Golden Rule. No, [more…]
How to Sign In to eBay
Sign In is possibly the most powerful of all the links on the eBay pages, and it should be your first stop if you plan on doing any business on the site. [more…]
An Overview of eBay Home Page Links
At the very bottom of the eBay home page is an unassuming group of links providing ways to get to some seriously handy pages. Here are some brief explanations of what you can expect to find at the other [more…]
Exploring Your My eBay Summary Page
By default, when you view your My eBay pages, you land on the My Summary page. The My Summary page gives you a snapshot of your current eBay transactions. It provides data about your buying and selling [more…]
How to Stay Up to Date with eBay's Announcement Board
eBay’s announcement boards are the most important place to find out what’s going on (directly from headquarters) on the Web site. Whenever eBay introduces new features, policy changes, explanations, or [more…]
How to Find Other eBay Members
Even though there are millions of eBay members, eBay’s powerful search engine can help you find other members in seconds. This is useful if you want to find a user’s About Me page or other contact information [more…]
How to Join an eBay Group
If you’re the friendly type and would like an instant group of new eBay friends, you can click the Groups link in the Connect area of the main Community page [more…]
