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Feedback

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After your transaction, leave feedback for the ebay member from whom you purchase the product so that other member can get benefit from your experience. You can view a list of the transactions for which you need to leave feedback then you can leave feedback for them. Feedback is comment or rating; show your reputation as a buyer. Feedback is included in your profile with feedback score.

How Feedback System Works

Feedback system is easy to understand, you receive:

· For each positive comment and rating left for you. You receive +1 point to your feedback.

· For each neutral comment and rating left for you. You receive 0 point to your feedback.

· For each negative comment and rating left for you. You receive -1 point to your feedback.

· When 10 or more comment and rating left for you. You receive a feedback star.

leaving your feedback

o To leave your feedback follows these steps:

· Click on the “My eBay” button at the top of any eBay page.

· Click on the "Feedback" link under “My Account” on the left-hand side of the page.

· To leave your feedback, click the “Leave Feedback” link. The Leave Feedback page opens.

· Enter the Rating and any comments for your trading partner.

· Click the Leave Feedback button

Viewing feedback you left

You can view past feedbacks you’ve left for your transaction partners in addition you can also enter follow up comments if needed. For each feedback comment you can leave one follow up comment. The feedback you post is permanent, so be sure before make any comments

o Viewing feedback includes some simple steps:

· Click on the “My eBay” button at the top of any eBay page.

· Click on the "Feedback" link under “My Account” on the left-hand side of the page.

· On the Feedback view, under “Recent Feedback”, clicks the “View all feedback” link.

· Below member profile box Click the Left for Others tab.

· If you want to enter additional, follow up comments, click the “Follow-up” link next to the correct user and item number then type your comments.

Make feedback Private or Public-On ebay you can set your member profile Private or Public.Keeping your member profile public generates trust and increase the probability that other ebay member do business with you. ebay suggest you to keep your member profile public so other ebay member can view feedback left by you. If your member profile is private, other members will be able to see the number of positive, neutral, and negative ratings left for you, however only you will be able to read feedback comments left for you. Private member profile may decrease the no of other eBay members' who want to do business with you.

o To make your Member Profile public or private follow these simple steps:

· Go to the "Make Your Member Profile Public or Private" page.

· Select either "Make my profile public" or "Make my profile private" and click Submit.

When to Check Feedback

o Before your bidding, check the seller member profile by two methods:

· Clicking on the feedback score next to a member's User ID.

· By using the Find Member Feedback Form.

Tips

· After your transaction leave feedback so that other member can get benefit from your experience.

· Generally high feedback score and high percentage is a good clue, but you should check your trading partner‘s profile to read comments and negative remarks.

· Keep your member profile public because buyers may be wary of trading with someone with a private member profile.

· Before leaving negative feedback contact to your trading partner and try to resolve the issue and conflicts.

· Once you leave feedback you can’t remove feedback you have left. So be sure when you leave your feedback.

Ebay Payment Methods

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Payment Methods

Before you place a bid on an item or use Buy It Now, make sure that the seller's payment options will work for you. Important factors that you should keep in mind are:·

Is it traceable and is there proof of payment?
Is the method fast and convenient?
How secure is it?
What is the liability coverage in case something goes wrong?

There are a number of payment formats on eBay. Most sellers offer more than one option. Before selecting a method of payment, be confident that your payment options offer more protection than others. Most payment options are also covered by the eBay Standard Purchase Protection Program for up to $200 (minus $25 for processing costs).

If you have additional questions about payment options, you can contact the seller directly.

Common payment methods available using the Pay Now button include:0

1. Cheque, postal order or money order

2. Direct Debit from your bank account

3. Credit card

4. PayPal

Cheque, postal order or money order

This payment method takes 7-10 business days to process and post to your account. This time duration does not include weekends and holidays. While making your payment with cheques you must also submit payment coupon with it and send it to the address written on coupen.

Direct Debit from your bank account

This is convenient method of making your regular payments on your eBay account. To use this payment method you only need to provide your Bank/Building Society account number and bank sort code, and eBay will automatically send a request to your Bank/Building Society to obtain authority to deduct your monthly invoice amount from your account. This debit will occur within 7-10 days after the receipt of your invoice.

Paying with a credit card

You can also use your credit card on your eBay account for regular monthly payment. It is monthly payment system. Each month eBay will automatically charge your invoice amount directly to your credit card on file. This debit will occur within 7-10 days after the receipt of your invoice.

Paying with Pay Pal

Paypal is online payment method that enables eBay members to pay for their item easily and quickly. By using paypal you can send payments quickly and securely online using a credit card or bank account. PayPal is a fast, easy, and secure way to receive payments on eBay. It is the preferred payment method for most eBay buyers and sellers. However, you should first check that the seller offers PayPal as a payment method for their listing.

Before you can send a payment using PayPal:

You need to have a PayPal account
The seller needs to offer PayPal as a payment method in their listing

To pay for an item using PayPal follow these simple steps:

1. After you've won an item, click on the Pay Now button.

2. Select your shipping address and confirm the payment details. If the seller hasn't specified shipping costs but you know what they are, you can enter the shipping information yourself.

3. Select PayPal as the payment method to go to the PayPal site.

4. Log in to your PayPal account. If you do not already have a PayPal account, you can sign up for an account.

5. From your PayPal account, review your payment and select how you would like to fund your PayPal payment (for example, using a checking account, credit card, or PayPal balance).

6. Click the Pay button to send the payment. The payment confirmation page opens.

7. When you send the payment, PayPal sends the payment status to eBay, your seller is notified of your payment, and you receive an email receipt for the transaction.

You can check status of your PayPal payment by follow these simple steps:

1. Click on the “My eBay” button at the top of any eBay page

2. Items I've Won section, click on the drop-down icon (small triangle) that is located under the Action column for the item.

3. Select View Payment Details. The Buyer's Payment Status page opens. By clicking on the "View Payment Details" link you can also view your payment status for each item you've paid.

Downloading your PayPal account history

You can download your PayPal account history into a file that can be used with Quicken, QuickBooks, and most common spreadsheet and database applications. PayPal account history contain detail information about mode of payment, money requests, payments received, withdrawals and all other transactional details.

How to Buy On eBay-2

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Private Auction

Private Auction-As a seller when you create a private listing, a buyer's User ID does not appear in the listing or in the listing's bid history. Only you are the person who can view the buyer’s User IDs associated with that listing.

Second Chance Offer in following two situation a seller can make a Second Chance Offer to a loosing bidder :

o The winning bidder of an item listing fails to buy the item

o The seller has duplicate items for sale but hasn't chosen to run a Multiple Item Auction

Multiple Item Auction-When seller offers two or more identical items in its auction-type listing, this is called a Dutch auction. This means the seller is offering several, similar items for sale. Unlike a regular Friend Circles auction, Dutch Auctions can have many winners. When you bid on a “Multiple Item Auction”, you specify the number of items you're interested in and the price you're willing to pay per item. All winning bidders will pay the same price, which is lowest successful bid.

Important- For Multiple Item Auction listings, you cannot use eBay's automatic bidding system to enter a maximum bid. Winning bidders will pay a price equal to the lowest winning bid. Winning bids are selected in order of bid price per item. For example, a bid for 5 units at $12 per unit is ranked above a bid for 10 units at $11 per unit. If two bids have the same price per item, the earlier bid is given priority.

o Once you raise your bid in “Multiple Item auction”, you can’t lower your “total bid value”.

o Winning bidders can refuse partial quantities. This means that if you win some, but not all, of the quantity you bid for, you don't have to buy any of them.

o To displayed Bids click on the "Bidders list" link. Bids with their bid prices are not winning bids, but bids that are winning show the price that they would pay if the auction ended immediately. To place a winning bid you need to exceed this price.

o Allocation of the items is effected by the ranking of the bids.

Specialty Sites- On eBay web site you will find endless list of item to buy and lots of way to shop, buy and bid. From needle to airplanes you will find all items.

These sites include:

o o eBay Live Auctions

o Half.com by eBay

o eBay Motors- go to eBay store to buy and sell vehicles and parts of all types: cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, motorcycles, boats, airplanes, and related accessories.

o eBay Live Auctions – eBay Live auction enables you to participate in auctions of some of the world's greatest auction houses—right while the auctions are taking place.

Fixed price format- If you want to pay a fixed price and get the item quickly, learn about these buying formats:

· Buy it now

· Best offer

· Specialty site

Buy It Now-Using Buy It Now Auction format on eBay, buyer can buy the product immediately without waiting for the auction to end and it is also used by sellers to increase their sale volume.

On eBay there are two types of listings that may have a Buy It Now price:

1. Items that have both bid price as well as Buy It Now price In this case you can place a bid on item and compete in the online auction or use Buy It Now to purchase the item immediately.

Items that have only Buy It Now price- you can purchase the item right away

Using Buy It Now is simple:

o Decide whether you're willing to buy the item for the Buy It Now price. Take note, shipping and handling charges are not included in the Buy It Now price. Shipping cost and other charges will be displayed in the listing description.

o Click the Buy It Now button.

o You'll go to a confirmation page where listed its payment detail. Click "Proceed" button to complete the purchase after you have confirmed to buy it.

o Pay for the item and the seller ships it to you.

o When it's part of an auction-style listing, the Buy It Now option is only shown on listings until an item receives its first bid, or, for a Reserve Price Auction, when the reserve is met. This means that when you see an item has both a Buy It Now price and a first bid price listed, you will need to act quickly!.

Best offer- In this method of selling, buyers can offer a price they are willing to pay for the item. Once an offer is accepted, the item is closed and the buyer is obligated to pay the price offered. Each Best Offer is binding, just like a bid, and is good for 48 hours. Buyers may choose to offer more than the stated Fixed Price so that shipping is included in the final price.

Once a buyer makes a Best Offer, seller can choose one of the following:

o Accept the Best Offer and close the listing.

o Decline the Best Offer and tell the buyer why the offer was rejected.

o Allow the offer to expire on its own in 48 hours (the offer will also expire when the listing ends).

Specialty site: This section include eBay’s Half.com and eBay Stores. By using these sites you can buy or sell your item online.

These sites include:

o Halfe.cm

o eBay store

o Half.com by eBay-Half.com sellers sell their items directly to you, keeping prices low. You can buy books, CDs, video games, and much more at set prices.

o eBay Stores-Go to eBay Stores to visit the online storefronts of experienced, high-volume eBay sellers who provide additional shopping convenience.

eBay Stores offer:

Þ Many Buy It Now Items so you don’t need to wait for the auction to end

Þ Items not available through eBay auctions

Þ Payment by credit cards for all Buy It Now items

Þ Ability to search and browse all of one seller's items

Þ Opportunity to work with experienced and qualified sellers

Advertisement formats – These buying options help to connect buyers with sellers. However these buying options do not directly list an item for sale. This buying format includes.

· Classified ad

· Ad format

· Specialty sites

· Classified Ad-There’s no bidding on the item, which appears with the format icon. If you are interested to buy that item click the “Contact the Seller “button on the item page and fill out the short contact form. eBay will forward your message to the seller.

Rules for your safety:

o Seller can’t share the buyer's information with third parties.

o Use of the buyer's information for any purpose other than communicating with the buyer about the item, is not permitted unless it is allowed by the buyer.

· Ad format-There's no bidding on the item, service, or property in Ad Format listing that appears with the ad format icon. As a buyer if you are interested in the listing you can contact to the seller from item page..

· Specialty sites- This section include eBay’s want it now web site

o Want It Now- You can tell sellers exactly what you want to buy. Go the “Want It Now” Home page and post a message to Want It Now with a description of what you’d like to buy.

How to Buy On eBay -1

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Buying

Buying on eBay is new kind of experience. On eBay you can buy your items online. eBay provide multiple buying formats to make buying process easy.

Buying Format

There are various formats to buy items on eBay. You don’t need to participate in an auction at eBay to buy something. If you want to purchase something – you can find the item and buy it immediately. By using these buying formats buyers and sellers do business together efficiently. Each format has its own advantages and characteristics.

Auction format
Fixed price format
Advertisement format

Auction formats - It is a perfect way to pick up the items at a bargain price and uncover the secrets of the enchanted treasure through bidding. Auction format include following way of buying:

Auction-style Listing - These include Reserve Price Auctions and Private Auctions.

Second Chance Offer - Under certain circumstances, the seller can offer the item to a bidder other than the auction's winner.

Multiple Item Auction - Listing that offers two or more identical items.

Specialty Sites - eBay Motors.

Auction-style Listing-eBay’s auction style listing format is based on the traditional auction format, where bidders compete for Seller’s item for a fixed length of time and seller sells the particular item to the highest bidder.

Here are the basics of how an eBay auction-style listings work:

1. Search or browse to find an item you're interested in buying.

2. Review the entire listing and decide if you wish to compete in this auction. Some things to note are:

o When bid ends

o Current Bid amount.

o Item description

o If you have any doubt about the particular item you can always email the seller by clicking on the ask seller a question link on the listing page.

o Payment methods and shipping costs

3. When you place a bid, you're pledging to pay as much as the amount you've bid; in other words, it's your maximum bid. eBay uses a technique called proxy bidding, in which it will automatically raise your bid only enough to beat competing bids, but no higher than your maximum bid.

4. If you are the highest bidder when the auction ends, you win the auction. As the winner, you are obligated to buy the item for the winning bid price.

In eBay, auction-style listing includes:

o Reserve Price Auction

o Private Auction

o Reserve Price Auction-Some auction-style listings have a reserve price, a hidden minimum price, on their item.

How it works:

The reserve price is the lowest price at which a seller is willing to sell an item.
Buyers are not shown what the Reserve Price is
If, reserve price was not met, seller cannot obligate in any way to sell an item.
The winning bidder must meet or exceed the reserve price and have the highest bid.
When you fill out the bid form at the bottom of the item screen showing your book, you enter the maximum amount
Watch the label next to the current price to see whether the reserve price has been met. Until you see that the reserve price has been met, there have been no successful bids in the auction.
Once the reserve has been met, the item will sell to the highest bidder when the auction closes.
If your maximum bid is the first to meet or exceed the reserve price, the effective bid displayed will automatically be raised to the reserve price.

How to Find On eBay

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Finding the item

To locate an item on eBay you can either search it or browse to reach it. Each method has its own advantages, depending on what you are looking for.

Search

Searching on eBay is fast and simple. Just type in two or three explanatory words about the item in the search box and search the desired item. The search option provides you with sophisticated options that allow you to narrow your search down.

Ways to search your desired item

Search from Home page – Open eBay’s home page and type few words describing the item you need to search in the Search box. Click the search button to get a listing of related products. e.g. Type in “Wrist Watch” to get a listing of wrist watches on offer. You can press the enter key or click the search button to get the listing. You can use various search options to narrow your keyword based search upon several search criteria like price, location, category, etc.

The search result page lists includes a lot of information about each item displayed. There are several options to reduce the number of items displayed on the search result page. There are tabs, drop-down lists and links that allow you to do so. When you search, on results page items are ordered according to their time left. Item with the least amount of time left is at the top. If you want to change the sort order of items, you can do it by using “Sort by” menu button.

Want it Now Post – If, still you cannot find the desired item, you can create a want it now posting to tell millions of ebay members what you are looking for. You simply enter what you are looking for focusing on keywords that best describe the item. You can also describe the item in detail. Next you have to choose a category where the post will be displayed. This feature also allows you to add a picture of the desired item.

Any response by eBay members to your post will be emailed to you. Your post shows only your eBay member ID, thus maintaining your privacy. If you want to delete or end your post and stop receiving responses, you can delete the post at any time. You can repost an ended post. Simply, go to My eBay and click on the “Want it Now” link. Here, you can see all active and inactive posts. Find the post you want to reactivate and click the “Repost” link.

You must meet the following conditions to put a “Want it now” Posting –

- You must be a registered user
- You must be ID verified
- You must have credit card on file
- You must have a feedback score of 5 or above

Browse

Browse in eBay allows you to window shop or stroll around till you find something of interest to buy. When you browse on eBay, you click through categories and lists of items, exploring as you go, until you find something you're interested in.

Similar to Search, Browse result page also has options to do further filtering of the items displayed. The items on a browse result page are ordered according to the time seller listed them. The newly listed items are on the top. Any new item added comes on the top and older items are pushed down the listing.

Registration on eBay

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Registration on eBay – It’s easy and free

To buy or sell on eBay, you need to become a registered member of the website. Registration on EBay is simple and free. As a registered eBay member, you can shop on eBay and participate in the world's largest online community of buyers and sellers. You need to follow following steps to register on eBay:

Step 1: Enter contact and other personal information

You need to supply your contact information like name, address and phone number for registration. Date of birth is also required so as to ascertain your age to be above 18 years.

Step 2: Enter email address

You have to provide an email address which can be checked immediately as eBay send an email to activate your account. Also, this email address is used by eBay to contact you when you have placed the winning bid for an item you'd like to buy or when someone has placed a winning bid for an item you're trying to sell.

It also provides a way for eBay buyers and sellers to contact you. To prevent any typographical errors, you are required to type your email id twice. You may be asked to place your credit/ debit card on record in case your email id cannot be used to verify your identity.

Step 3: Read and accept the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy

To continue the registration process you need to accept he eBay User Agreement and Privacy policy.

Step 4: Choose a User ID, password, and a secret question

Next, you need to make an eBay user id and password for yourself. This is required to sign in to eBay every time you logon. Also, a secret question needs to be selected by you and an answer to it is to be typed in. This is used to verify your identity in case you loose or forget your password.

The password needs to be entered twice to prevent typographical errors. This password will be asked while buying or selling on eBay in order to prevent misuse of account. This password is kept secret and only asterisk (*) is displayed.

Step 5: Check your email and activate your account

When you have completed and submitted this registration form, eBay will send you a registration Email. You now have to activate your account following the instructions in the email.

Introduction to eBay

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eBay where people make millions can be your breadwinner too …..

I will guide you to start your own business on eBay. Minimum start-up costs. Without any technical knowledge or Internet business experience.

There are some unbelievable stories about people who made millions selling extraordinary items on eBay!

How strange? Check this out:

A piece of gum chewed by Britney Spears:

SOLD -- $263

10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich:

SOLD -- $28,000

In addition to this, there's actually something even more amazing that happens on eBay and it's going on every single day! You can get the best buy or sell price for your desired product.

On eBay it is not important to sell a Turbine worth millions of dollars to make money. There are people who get rich by selling small items like picture frames, women’s shoes, used DVDs and portable camping showers. eBay provide a life time opportunity to start your own business. You can make money by selling stock, liquidation merchandise, returned or damaged items... just about anything that you CAN'T sell through your retail location!

To make money on eBay, you don't need ANY experience in website designing, don't need to know anything about HTML and don't even need to spend a single penny to list your first auction!

eBay is a dream come true for anyone who's interested in making money online because:

For buying purpose, everyday more than 2 Million people visit eBay.
A single eBay member spends average of 2 hour shopping on eBay.
People spend a bulk amount of money on eBay.
Everyday thousand of new member join eBay.

Deciding what to sell on eBay?

For a seller it is difficult to decide what to sell or how to get started. As a new seller you need to gain some selling experience on eBay before moving on to bulk or bigger selling. In this situation please follow these steps:

You can start from used goods, old books, cloth items, used sporting goods.
Sell those items you know something about.
Sell items in bulk. Defiantly you will make some extra money then selling them individually
Sell something different and unique.
Sell those items which fall in category of eBay’s best selling items.

Top tips for eBay sellers

Selling on eBay is unique experience, which is different in many ways from traditional business. Here are some top quality tips for eBay sellers to succeed selling on eBay:

1) Stunning headlines and good auction description

Your product title must be attractive then the competitors, to attract bidders. A great headline would contain two key elements: "Key words" that are searchable, and "emotional words" designed to attract attention. Once you catch the attention of buyer with your headline, you need to sell your item with item description.

3) Good quality photo

Good quality photo of your product will help to increase the sale of your item. While you uploading the photo make sure that photo should be clear, and show the product as completely as possible.

4) Accepting credit card

Accepting credit card can increase your sale over 500%. PayPal is good option to accept your payment through credit card. PayPal offers no set-up fee and transaction costs are 2.2% or less.

5) Understand your costs

Before selling any item on eBay it is important to understand all the costs involved. For listing your item on eBay you have to pay “listing fee” .Except this there is selling fee, fee to process billpoint, PayPal or credit card sale, fee for auction management service and at last shipping fee. All these costs must be considered while putting a price for your item

6) Feedback

Feedback is the comment or rating left by eBay member with whom you buy or sell your product. Good communication between buyer and seller leads to better feedback. This helps a lot in setting your credibility on eBay. While you are building your feedback rating, sometimes you just have to swallow hard and be extra diplomatic.

Also, see our detailed description of eBay selling (Hyperlink to How to sell page)

Tips for saving your money on shipping

Before shipping your item to buyer, pack it properly to prevent it from any type of damage. Shipping include following costs:

Shipping materials

Shipping materials are used to pack the items. Shipping materials consist of boxes, newsprint or tissue, Styrofoam peanuts, bubble pack and tape. For free shipping and packing materials you can visit your local gift shop electronic good shop, hardware shop or drug store.

Shipping amount

If, you have large no of eBay buyers, you can negotiate shipping charges with service providers like UPS, FedEx and FedEx Ground. Call the companies and ask what their quantity points are to get a discount.

Time

Time is valuable. Less shipping time will increase the interest of buyer to do business with you. Permanent area of shipping saves your time. Invest in tape guns, paper rolls and so on to save your valuable time.