Organizing Your Auction Presentation
Selling products through an online auction works like selling things face to face in real life. [more…]
Pay Attention to eBay Packing Slips
Lost packages are the bane of all carriers since they started accepting packages for delivery. [more…]
Review Your eBay Listings Regularly
After a while, the temptation is to not review your listings after submitting them. [more…]
Take All eBay Sales Costs into Account
Becoming complacent and blithely ignoring your eBay costs as you list items for sale is easy to do. [more…]
Tracking Auction Buyer Information
Keeping track of your eBay auction winners isn't rocket science. [more…]
Watching Out for eBay Abuses
If you're on eBay long enough, you're bound to find an abuse of the service. [more…]
eBay Charity Auctions: All for a Good Cause
A charity auction is a high-profile fundraising auction where the proceeds go to a selected charity. [more…]
eBay Invites TRUSTe Scrutiny
By creating a comprehensive privacy policy and opening itself up to independent review by TRUSTe, eBay has earned the loyalty of millions of auction-crazed customers. [more…]
How to Delete a YouTube Account
If your username is your identity on YouTube, remember that deleting your account means the end of that identity. Closing your YouTube account means that all the unique qualities of your account [more…]
How to Browse the Most-Linked YouTube Videos
Many people create links on other Web sites that connect to videos on YouTube. To see a list of the most-linked videos on YouTube — and where the links are coming from – do the following: [more…]
How to Build Your Twitter Following through Engaging Tweets
Want to grow your Twitter follower numbers? In less than 140 characters, some advice: Keep your Tweets conversational, well-paced, and connected to something others are likely to care about. [more…]
How to Remove Unwanted Toolbars from Mozilla Firefox
Removing unwanted toolbars in Firefox is much simpler than removing them from Internet Explorer. Perhaps scummy programmers aren’t as interested in subverting Firefox, or perhaps the Firefox design doesn’t [more…]
How to Remove Unwanted Toolbars from Internet Explorer
So you find a great little program to install on your computer and somehow, by the time the install finished, you found yourself with a strange new toolbar in Internet Explorer. It happens to everyone. [more…]
How to Remove Unwanted Add-ons from Internet Explorer
Many Internet Explorer problems are caused by add-ons. Unfortunately, removing unwanted add-ons from Internet Explorer can take some work. This is particularly true of the add-ons that you didn't invite [more…]
How to Receive Tweets with Your Cellphone
Many twitterers use Twitter almost exclusively on their mobile phones. Text messaging (SMS) is the most basic way to access Twitter via your cellphone. In addition to sending tweets as SMS messages from [more…]
How to File an Insurance Claim with the U.S. Postal Service
Before making a claim with the U.S. Postal Service, check to make sure your package was covered by postal insurance, purchased at the time of mailing. If you use private insurance instead, you make a claim [more…]
How to Find the Right Computer to Become an eBay Power User
Whether you're an eBay buyer or seller, you need a computer that makes your eBay experience comfortable and enjoyable. Your computer should be fast enough, have enough memory capacity, and have all the [more…]
Creating an E-Mail Account for eBay Use
E-mail is the best and easiest way to communicate with eBay sellers and successful buyers. If you have your own computer and an ISP (Internet server provider), you probably have e-mail access automatically [more…]
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…]
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…]
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 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…]
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…]
How to Select or Change Your eBay User ID
You can create your own eBay user ID or even change your existing user ID. Making up a new eBay user ID is always a pleasant chore. If you’ve never liked your real name or never had a nickname, here’s [more…]
How to Prove You're Trustworthy on eBay with ID Verify
To show other eBay members that you’re an honest type — and to get special privileges when you’re a newbie on eBay — you can buy eBay's “trust but verify” option, known as [more…]
