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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…]

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…]

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…]

Exploring Your My eBay Summary Page

By default, when you view your My eBay pages, you land on the My Summary page. The My Summary page gives you a snapshot of your current eBay transactions. It provides data about your buying and selling [more…]

Get Help through eBay's Emergency Contact Board

The eBay Emergency contact board is no Rescue 911, but if your computer crashes and you lose all your info, this board is the place to put out an all-points bulletin for help. [more…]

How to Join an eBay Group

If you’re the friendly type and would like an instant group of new eBay friends, you can click the Groups link in the Connect area of the main Community page [more…]

Multiple-Item, or Dutch, eBay Auctions

A multiple-item, or Dutch, auction on eBay allows a seller to auction multiple identical items. You can bid on as many of the item as you want. To place a bid in a Dutch auction, you must input the amount [more…]

Restricted-Access and Private eBay Auctions

If you want to sell items on eBay that are of an adult nature, or big-ticket items where you don’t want to disclose your bidder’s financial status, then either a Restricted-Access or Private auction is [more…]

eBay Charity Auctions

A charity auction is a high-profile fund-raising auction run by eBay Giving Works where the proceeds go to a selected charity. Charity auctions are run like most other auctions on eBay, but because they’re [more…]

Buying an eBay Item without an Auction

eBay allows sellers to handle outright sales in the following ways: using the Buy It Now feature in an eBay auction; in a fixed-price sale; and in one of eBay’s stores. [more…]

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