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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 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…]

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…]

How to Customize and Download PayPal Reports

If you're making a lot of money from eBay, you'll want to keep records of your transactions. Even if you don't really need them, Uncle Sam surely will. If you have a PayPal account, you can download your [more…]

How to Open a PayPal Account

If you want to be an eBay seller and you aren’t registered with PayPal yet (what’s holding you up?), eBay provides a convenient link on your My eBay All Selling page in the Selling links area. To register [more…]

How to Track Payments Using eBay's All Selling Page

Once you’ve completed an eBay auction or sale, notified the winner, and sent off an invoice, it’s time to get paid for your item. eBay and PayPal work in concert to offer several tools to notify you when [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…]

PayPal For Dummies Cheat Sheet

PayPal may be the world’s most recognized online payment service. Knowing what it costs to use the service (usually nothing if you’re a buyer; a small percentage if you’re a merchant) and the error messages [more…]