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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 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 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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

How to Track eBay Auctions You've Won and Lost

The All Buying page is the hub for keeping track of your winning bids on eBay, as well as any items you didn’t win. To find out how you did, you can simply click a link to view summaries of your bidding [more…]

Monitor eBay Auctions with the Watch This Item Link

The All Buying page is the hub for several features, including the ability to keep track of eBay bids that you’re watching. Have you ever seen an auction that made you think, “I don’t want to bid on this [more…]

Watch Your eBay Bidding Status with the Active Buying Section

When you place a bid, eBay registers it in the Active Buying area of your My eBay page, and displays a clickable link to the item. This part of your My eBay page gives you quick access to all the auctions [more…]

What an eBay Bidder Search Can Tell You about Other Bidders

Get to know your eBay competition! By performing a bidder search, you can find out information on bidders who’ve beaten you in recent auctions. For example, say meanguy123 outbids you in an auction for [more…]

Researching eBay Bidders to Win an Auction

To find the best price for any item on eBay, you need to research the item to find out what similar items on eBay tend to sell for. But eBay shows you more than just the winning bid; you can gain some [more…]

Search for Misspellings to Find Deals on eBay

You can find some great buys on eBay by searching for misspellings. Many sellers are in a hurry when they set up their auction listings, and to err is human [more…]

Finding Your Destination with the eBay Navigation Bar

The navigation bar is at the top of every eBay page and lists five links that take you directly to different eBay areas. Hovering over some of the links reveals a subnavigation list with links to other [more…]

How to Use eBay Categories to Find an Auction Item

To keep track of the millions of items up for sale at any given moment, eBay groups items into categories. eBay's home page lists most of the main categories, but eBay also lists tens of thousands of subcategories [more…]

Tips for Improving eBay Search Results

When you click the Search button on an eBay page to look for items to buy, the keywords you use can have a huge effect on what results you get. Here are some ways to make your searches more effective: [more…]

Types of Advanced Searches on eBay

To conduct an advanced search on eBay, click the Advanced Search link next to the Search button. You’re whisked to the Advanced Search: Find Items page, which will have your search options in a box on [more…]

How to Do an Advanced eBay Search

Performing an advanced search on eBay is easy: Simply click Advanced Search on any eBay page, and you're brought to the Advanced Search page. On this search form, you’ll see about four dozen boxes. You [more…]

How to Search for Items by Seller on eBay

After spending time on eBay, you’ll find that you have favorite sellers. You can always access a seller’s other items for sale by clicking the View Seller’s Other Items link on the listing page. If you [more…]

How to Search for Items by Bidder on eBay

After you’ve lost an auction or two to another eBay bidder, you may want to find out more about their bidding habits to help you compete against them in the future. To do this, you can simply click Advanced [more…]

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