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…]
Link to Sellers and Other eBay Companies
If you look carefully on the eBay home page, you can see several links that give you express service to several key parts of the site. Following these links can open up your buying, selling, and general [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…]
Protect Your eBay Transactions with Shipping Insurance
Despite everyone’s best efforts, sometimes eBay items get damaged or misplaced during shipment; that’s where shipping insurance comes in. You should offer to get insurance from the shipper if the buyer [more…]
What Does eBay Motors Vehicle Purchase Protection Cover?
A major benefit of buying a car on eBay is that you are covered by eBay Motors Vehicle Purchase Protection against certain losses associated with some types of fraud. To qualify [more…]
What Does PayPal Buyer Protection Cover?
Aside from safety, PayPal now offers an even better reason to pay through its service: PayPal Buyer Protection. If you’ve purchased your item through a PayPal-verified seller, you’re covered for your original [more…]
How Does eBay's Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program Protect Intellectual Property?
If you own intellectual property that you think is being infringed upon on the eBay site, you should take advantage of the eBay Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program. Owners of trademarked or copyrighted [more…]
How to Protect High-Cost eBay Transactions with Escrow.com
Escrow.com, eBay’s official escrow service, makes it more comfortable for an eBay buyer to proceed with transactions over $2000, which is the upper limit for PayPal buyer protection. Buyers gain peace [more…]
Deciding How to Insure Your eBay Merchandise when Shipping
It’s a good idea to insure the merchandise you sell on eBay against loss or damage; whether you self-insure an item or insure it through a major carrier generally depends on how much the item is worth. [more…]
How to Set Up Your About Me Page
It’s easy to create an About Me page on eBay, even if you don’t know HTML. An About Me page lets bidders know about you and the products or services you have to offer. [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…]
eBay Blogging on Your My World Page
If blogging is the key to the new Web, your My World page is the hub of your eBay user interaction. Your About Me page is there for customers; the My World page is mostly used by the eBay community. People [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 Help on the eBay Discussion Boards
If you ever have specific eBay questions to which you need answers, several eBay discussion boards on the Community: Connect page can help you. You can also go directly to the chat rooms to pose your question [more…]
Get Information Fast with eBay’s Community Chat Rooms
If you need an answer to a question right away, you can post your question on one of eBay’s Community chat rooms. Click the Community button in the upper-right corner of any eBay page and then look for [more…]
How to File an Insurance Claim with UPS
When you file a claim with UPS for damaged or lost eBay merchandise, the process is pretty straightforward and relatively painless. After they file and accept your damage claim, you get a check within [more…]
How to File an Insurance Claim with FedEx
When you file a claim with FedEx for damaged or lost eBay merchandise, you have 15 business days to make your claim. (This extra time sure helps out when a package is delivered to your house and you’re [more…]
How Does PayPal Work?
PayPal is a reliable payment service that allows eBay buyers to safely click and pay with a credit card, eCheck, or PayPal balance — directly from eBay — after they’ve won an auction or made a purchase [more…]
Buying and Selling Items on PayPal Shops
When you think of PayPal, you might think of it as just a payment service on eBay, but it’s much, much more. Did you know that PayPal has shops? Yes! It’s another place to sell your wares online. [more…]
How to Join PayPal Shops
Joining PayPal shops lets you sell your merchandise directly through PayPal. This is a great opportunity to expand your customer base, buy you need to meet the requirements of the application process. [more…]
How to Create a PayPal Button on Your Web Site
If you're selling something on your Web site and accepting payment through PayPal, you can easily add a PayPal button to your site. First, log on to the PayPal Web site and then follow these steps to create [more…]
Different Ways to Pay through PayPal
In order to pay someone from your PayPal account, you have to get the money into your PayPal account. You have several ways to fund the money you send to another party through PayPal, including instant [more…]
Buying from Sellers with PayPal Buyer Protection
As a buyer who pays for eBay items through PayPal, you can be covered against fraud under the PayPal Buyer Protection plan. The maximum level of coverage varies from [more…]
What Does PayPal's Seller Protection Cover?
The PayPal Protection plan covers eBay sellers as well as buyers. As a seller, you have some protection against unwarranted claims made on your eBay sales; it’s called [more…]
Downloading PayPal Payment History for Your Records
Good recordkeeping is important for an eBay seller. That’s why PayPal allows you to download records of your buying and selling activity, in either a monthly or quarterly format. [more…]









