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Paying for an eBay Purchase
When you buy something in a store, you need to check out to pay. eBay isn’t much different. eBay’s checkout is a convenient way to pay for your completed auction or Buy It Now sale with a credit card or [more…]
How to Download and Install the Outlook Payment Request Wizard
The Outlook Payment Request Wizard enables you to give the e-mail that you send to your eBay customers a more professional look by including a custom icon link to a PayPal payment page. If you’re using [more…]
Guidelines for Setting Shipping Charges for eBay Items
When listing an item for sale on eBay, you need to input your payment and shipping information. You have the option of using a flat rate, where you simply input your flat shipping charges. The charges [more…]
Setting eBay Shipping Terms Domestically or Internationally
When you create an eBay listing, you need to let potential buyers know whether you will ship to their location, and if so, how much it will cost. Near the bottom of the Create Your Listing page is a section [more…]
How to Add eBay's Shipping Calculator to Your Listing
If the item that you send an eBay buyer weighs two pounds or more, you may want to use eBay’s versatile shipping calculator to determine your flat shipping-and-handling cost or to quote a calculated shipping [more…]
Choose the Right Packing Materials for Your eBay Shipments
As an eBay seller, you should use packing materials that keep your shipments in one piece as they travel to your buyer. You can ship your items in quality packing, keep buyers happy, and still make a dollar [more…]
Ship eBay Items in Mailing Envelopes to Save Money
When you send your auction item to a winning eBay bidder, a great way to save on shipping costs is by sending the item in an envelope instead of a box. Any item under 13 ounces can be shipped via First [more…]
How to Ship Your eBay Merchandise
Shipping can be the most time-consuming (and dreaded) task for eBay sellers. The best way to avoid shipping problems is to do your homework beforehand, determine which method is likely to work best, and [more…]
Choosing the Best Shipping Company for Your eBay Items
Deciding on your carrier can be the most important decision in your eBay business. You need to decide which one is more convenient for you (located close to your home base, provides pick up service, gives [more…]
How to Sign Up Online with FedEx
If you plan to use FedEx to ship your eBay merchandise to your customers, then you can go to the FedEx Web site and sign up to use their service.
You sign up for a FedEx account only once, but it’s a two-step [more…]
Shipping eBay Items with the U.S. Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is probably the most efficient and inexpensive way to ship items you sell on eBay. It also supplies free boxes and labels for Priority and Express Mail packages. Here are [more…]
Shipping Your eBay Merchandise with UPS
When you ship your eBay merchandise to customers, UPS is a great choice; the folks in the brown UPS trucks love eBay. The options they offer vary, with everything from Overnight service to Ground service [more…]
How to Use PayPal Shipping with the U.S. Postal Service
By using PayPal, an eBay seller can streamline the buyer’s shopping experience, making it simple to buy, click, and pay. Along with all the timesaving tools PayPal supplies for the seller, they now offer [more…]
How to Use PayPal Shipping with UPS
By using PayPal, an eBay seller can streamline the buyer’s shopping experience, making it simple to buy, click, and pay. Along with all the timesaving tools PayPal supplies for the seller, they now offer [more…]
Verify an eBay Buyer’s Address before Shipping
When you send merchandise to an eBay buyer, it is critical to have the buyer’s address correct on the label. The following ideas and practices will help you create accurate shipping labels: [more…]
Considerations for Setting Shipping Costs for Your eBay Items
When you set shipping and handling fees on eBay items that you sell, you must take into account every expense involved in your packing and shipping. You can’t make your shipping area a losing proposition [more…]
Types of Feedback You Can Leave for an eBay Seller
Every eBay member has a feedback rating. When you leave feedback for a seller, it needs to accurately and fairly reflect the service you received. Leaving feedback for the seller comes in three exciting [more…]
What Feedback Numbers Mean for eBay Users
At eBay, you're only as good as your feedback says you are. Your feedback is made up of comments — good, bad, or neutral — that people leave about you [more…]
How to Give Detailed Star Ratings to an eBay Seller
In addition to a feedback comment and rating (positive, negative, or neutral), eBay buyers can leave detailed seller ratings, too. After the buyer types a comment, he or she is prompted to rate the seller [more…]
How Long Should Your eBay Auctions Run?
When you sell an item on eBay, you can choose how long you want the auction to last. eBay lets you hold auctions for one, three, five, seven, or ten days. You have to evaluate your item and decide which [more…]
Defining the Players in the Wholesale Business
When you buy merchandise wholesale to sell on eBay, a full team of players participate in the wholesale game. Each player performs a different task and can help you in different ways, as follows: [more…]
Jazz Up Your eBay Listings with HTML
When you create a description of an item you’re selling on eBay, you can jazz things up with a bit of HTML coding, either manually or by using eBay’s HTML text editor. For example, you can make your text [more…]
How to Spot a Fake PayPal E-Mail
People around the world know that PayPal is a service that helps people transfer money online. And crooks try to make use of PayPal’s instantly recognizable name in an effort to scam money from unsuspecting [more…]
PayPal Fee Schedule
If you have a personal PayPal account you use to send or receive money online, you generally pay nothing to manage your account unless you’re converting foreign currency. If you’re a merchant who receives [more…]
PayPal Error Codes You May Encounter
If you use PayPal just to pay for things online, you’ll probably never run into error codes. However, if you’re a merchant accepting payments through PayPal, you may want to familiarize yourself with the [more…]
