Shipping details for purchases over eBay is actually a misnomer. eBay is not responsible for the shipping details of an item. First of all, it should be duly noted that eBay is an online market/transaction facilitator. It merely becomes a means for the buyer and the seller to meet. It is also a regulating body that helps develop fairness of trades among parties. However, the terms and details of the trade are subject to the agreement of both buying and selling parties.
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From Seller To Buyer: Shipping Details For Ebay Auctions
The irony of eBay is that as it grows to be ever more successful, it draws the unsavoury element of the internet towards it. I’m talking about people who make it their business to attempt to defraud you and I in our eBay and PayPal transactions. Of course, not all dodgy dealings on eBay are fraudulent. Some are just mischievous. Others are by chancers, who perhaps reckon their victims won’t be bothered to pursue them.
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26 Tips on How to be Safe in Your eBay Selling and Buying
With eBay being one of the most searched for terms on the internet today (approx 24 million people last month), it is hardly suprising that more and more everyday people are turning away from the 9-5 job scene, and looking at the income opportunities that this hugely popular forum has to offer.
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The Ebay Revolution - A Beginners Guide
eBay offers quite a few simple tools to help make your buying easier, so you don’t lose track of what you’re doing. Most of them are on the ‘My eBay’ screen – if you’re logged in, you can go there just by clicking ‘My eBay’ on the toolbar at the top of any eBay page.
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Understanding Ebay Buying Tools
It’s surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Here’s what you need to do.
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Five Simple Steps To Posting Your First Ebay Auction
With more than 167 million registered users eBay is the largest market-place in the world. Tens of thousands of items are listed every day and the vast majority of these don’t contain any spelling mistakes. But a significant proportion do, either in the item title or the description.
Now I’m sure you’re thinking ’so what, why does this matter ?’ Well the answer is surprisingly simple - these mis-spelled auction items cannot be found directly using eBay’s built-in search functions. To find them, you’ll need to browse the category listings by hand, which is tedious and extremely time-consuming. As a result mis-spelled auctions get fewer bids and usually sell for less (if they sell at all).
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How to Strike eBay Gold by Hunting Out Mis-spelled Auction Items
eBay has quite an intricate and long-winded dispute resolution procedure. In this article, I’ll try to break each step down for you, so you can see what’s involved and how long it takes.
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When Things Go Wrong: How To Resolve eBay Disputes
Millions of would-be entrepreneurs want to sell things on ebay. eBay is the #1 home-business opportunity in the world right now, so it’s natural that many are eager to find highly profitable items for re-sale on eBay. However, it’s important to know that there are certain items that can’t be sold. Here are a dozen of them …
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12 Items You CAN’T Sell On eBay
It’s happened to the best of us. You’ve been watching the auction all week, and finally you’re about to claim your prize–a rare bronze statue from the Shang Dy dynasty. Or something just as tantalizing. You log on a few minutes before the auction closes, and confirm that you’re still the top bidder — no one has challenged you in several days. You’re already picturing “your” statue prominently displayed on the living room mantelpiece, your friends green with envy as you tell them about the great deal you got on eBay. You refresh the page a few times, to make sure you’re still #1. You even up your bid a little just to make sure no body tries to outbid you at the last minute.
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Overcoming the most Frustrating Situation on eBay
Often times people to stop to realize the income potential of their “junk”. And, when they DO decide it might be worth selling, they never give eBay a second thought. As I preach over and over again to my customers, don’t ever think that you have something that nobody else would want, unless you’ve really taken the time to do a little eBay research.
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Turn Your “Rusty Junk” Into eBay Gold
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