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How to Refresh an eBay Auction

Winning an auction on eBay is all about proper timing. You don't want to enter a bid too early and artificially increase the cost of the item, so you should bid right before the auction ends. Your...

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How to Track Shipping on eBay Items

EBay is a popular auction site that connects buyers and sellers throughout the world. Once an item has been purchased or won by the winning bidder, the buyer must send payment to the seller before the...

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How to Report a Buyer on eBay

Having a seller's account on eBay is an effective way to sell items. Typically, when another eBay user buys your item, he sends electronic payment and you mail him the item. Occasionally, however, you...

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What Do eBay Business Accounts Have That Individuals Do Not?

With eBay, you can use a personal or business account to sell or buy products. The type of account to use depends on how you wish to use eBay. If you're purchasing items with an intent to sell them on...

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What Does "Clear ESN" Mean on eBay?

Each cellphone contains an 11-digit Electronic Serial Number (ESN) that is unique and is used by cellular phone carriers to tie the device to a specific person or business. The ESN cannot be changed...

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How to Remove an eBay Token

An eBay token is a security feature that allows third-party vendors to access your eBay account for a limited purpose. For example, several auction-listing applications created by third-party...

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How to Find Out What Offers Were Made on an eBay Account

Sellers who list Buy it Now auctions on eBay can specify a best offer amount. When a buyer makes an offer, the system will automatically accept, decline or forward a notice to the seller. You can check...

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How to Reset My eBay Account

EBay allows you to buy and sell online through its online auction site. You can choose from a variety of categories such as clothing, shoes, electronics, beauty and even vehicles. In addition, if...

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How to Find Items Won on eBay That Are Older Than Sixty Days

Many sellers use eBay's completed listing search to try to gauge how much they can expect to sell their items for. However, eBay only displays auctions that ended within the 15 days prior to the day...

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How Can I Track My Package From eBay?

After purchasing an item on eBay, you may be anxious to receive your item and would naturally like to know when you can expect it. eBay allows sellers to purchase shipping labels online, with the cost...

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How to Create a Template for eBay Listings

Create eBay listings faster with eBay templates designed to streamline the listing process and offering options to customize for auctions or fixed-price items.

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What Does it Mean When You Escalate a Case on eBay?

Most disputes on eBay are resolved directly between the buyer and the seller. If you're struggling with a missing item or a non-paying buyer, contact the other party -- most members are eager to avoid...

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What Do the Stars Mean on eBay?

The eBay concept relies on bringing buyers and sellers together to make a profit. Since eBay is at the mercy of those buyers and sellers, a rating system has been put into place to help protect buyers...

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How to Cancel an Unpaid Item on Ebay

That expensive flat-screen television or designer purse you saw on eBay seemed like such a good deal at first. Now that you have bid on and won the item, though, you're beginning to regret it. It is...

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What Is the Confirmation Code on eBay?

EBay is an online auction site where you can buy and sell goods. Registering on eBay lets you conduct all of your transactions from a single account so your details are always stored in one convenient...

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What Does Time Left on eBay Mean?

If you want to bid on an item on eBay, it's important to check the time left so you can place the bid before it closes: EBay listings last anywhere from 1 to 30 days, depending on the type of auction....

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How to Dispute Negative Feedback on eBay

One of the most important tools in the eBay community is feedback. Feedback lets other eBayers know that you're a trusted buyer or seller, as your feedback score is prominently displayed beside your...

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How to Cancel a Debit Card on eBay

The online auction site eBay allows users to buy and sell a range of new and used items, sometimes through beating out other bidders in fast-paced online auctions. As part of the buying and selling...

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How to Put eBay Store Categories on the Left Side of an Auction Template

An eBay store is a customizable presence on the eBay website that allows the account holder to cross-promote their items in auction listings. An eBay store auction template can display a list of...

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How to Transfer Money From PayPal to PaisaPay

PayPal is the preferred payment method for eBay in many parts of the world, but in India PayPal isn't used. Instead, eBay India uses a proprietary payment method known as PaisaPay, which all sellers...

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How to Access eBay With HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is an add-in for the Firefox browser that automatically detects if a website offers an encrypted version of the site to increase browser security. If an encrypted version is available,...

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How to Get Up to Date Bid Information on eBay

When only a few minutes or seconds remain on an eBay auction, it's critical that you know when you've been outbid. The only sure way to see the most current bid information on your screen is to refresh...

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What Actually Happens When You Like Something on Facebook?

Clicking "Like" on a page, status, picture, or other Facebook posting is a means of giving positive feedback and connecting your profile to things you care about. When you like a user's content, a...

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How to Pay Postage for eBay & Print Labels

After the initial thrill of making a sale on eBay begins to wear off, you're soon faced with the responsibility of shipping the item to the buyer as promised. To avoid the lines at the post office and...

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How to Create an eBay Store & Import Items

Whether you have a few items to sell or you have a brick-and-mortar store and want to sell goods online, eBay has an intuitive interface to create stores and sell items. You'll accept payments with...

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How to Find "Or Best Offer" Items on eBay

EBay provides several advanced search options to allow you to search for a product using item-specific criteria. One of these is to search by Best Offer, a feature that gives you a way to offer a...

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How to Customize Free Templates for eBay

Building an attractive and effective auction on eBay does not necessarily require that you have Web expertise and the ability to design your own template. Instead, you can download free or paid...

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How to Check if an eBay Store Name Is Available

Choosing a unique name for your eBay store is an important step when you're ready to take your eBay hobby to the next level. In addition to coming up with a name that reflects your products and...

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How to Block EBay Members From Contacting You

Some eBay transactions are more trouble than they're worth. Belligerent, demanding bidders can sometimes flood your email with pointless questions or desperate pleas to end an auction early to make...

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How to Sell Multiple Quantities on eBay

There are two different ways to sell products on eBay -- auction or fixed price. Auctions help you sell items using a bidding system, while the fixed price format is used to sell items for a specific...

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How to Fix the Bid Price on eBay

Online auctions enable buyers to pay a fair price by bidding as much as they feel an item is worth. Sometimes buyers may overbid or sellers may start an auction too low, but eBay includes features for...

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When You Sell on eBay, How Do You Get Paid?

Before the Internet came along, selling used goods for extra cash meant cleaning out the garage, hanging a bunch of handmade signs throughout the neighborhood and spending the weekend in a folding...

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Can You Change the Buy It Now Price on eBay?

You can change the Buy It Now price on a fixed-priced listing in eBay once the listing has been published, even if the item has received bids. However, eBay does set some limitations on editing the Buy...

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Can You Take Back Your Bid on Ebay?

Think carefully before you place a bid on eBay. While placing a bid takes mere seconds, canceling it is a considerably more arduous process. eBay only agrees to cancel bids under very specific...

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How to Add PayPal to eBay

PayPal is an eBay-owned company, and as such it serves as the base payment option for auctions and sales that occur on eBay. Users who link a PayPal account to their eBay account gain the ability to...

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How to Pay for Multiple Items at Once on eBay From the Same Seller

EBay allows users to bid on or purchase as many auctions and "Buy It Now" listings as they wish. In many cases, multiple items may be purchased from the same eBay seller. For the sake of convenience...

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How to Download My eBay Sales History

Keeping track of eBay sales is an important part of running an eBay storefront. When only selling a few items it is easy to record sales data from your "My eBay" page, but for large eBay stores it can...

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How to Use a Debit Card for an eBay Transaction

Finding something you like is easy on eBay, no matter what your interests are. The online auction site boasts more than 94 million users, and sold more than $62 billion in goods in 2010. EBay makes its...

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How to Find a Saved Seller on eBay

Buyers can save their favorite eBay sellers when they discover sellers selling wanted, loved or needed items. Such sellers appear in the buyer's "Saved sellers" list after the buyer clicks on a...

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How to Cancel an eBay Dispute

At eBay, members have the option to open a dispute when they encounter transaction problems. Buyers can open a dispute if they did not receive an item they won or if they received an item not as...

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How to Post Tracking Numbers on eBay

Selling an item on eBay is only the beginning: Now you need to ship it and upload a tracking number. Tracking numbers not only let your buyers know their items are on the way, but also provides proof...

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Can You Change an Auction on eBay to Buy Now?

Ebay lets its sellers choose how they wish to sell their items during the creation of their listing. Listings can be created using the standard auction format, a fixed-price format or an auction with a...

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Can You Bid on Your Own Item on eBay?

eBay has a number of policies in place to make their auctions fair for all involved. Among these policies are rules against bidding on your own items or items of people you know. Referred to as "shill...

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How to Prevent People With 0 Feedback to Bid on Your Auction on eBay

Ebay has long allowed users to buy, sell and purchase items, but if you're selling your own item, you may have to take precautions to protect yourself against unscrupulous buyers. Buyers who are new or...

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How to Search eBay International

You live in a global economy. Political borders no longer act as a barrier to commerce, for the most part. EBay knows this. Sure, you may default to the eBay website created for your country --...

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How to Cancel Someone's Bid on eBay

Selling an item on an online auction site can give you access to hundreds of thousands of potential bidders and customers from around the world. Sellers on eBay can cancel bids from a buyer if the...

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What Is Ebay's Live Chat?

EBay maintains an extensive knowledge base that allows users to find answers to common questions. If an eBay user has questions that aren't covered in the on-site help, he can contact the company...

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How to Cancel 'Buy it Now' on eBay

Learn how to request cancelation of an item you purchased using But It Now on eBay. Also learn how to remove Buy It Now from your own listings.

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How to Report Fraud on eBay

Reporting eBay fraud requires that you both contact eBay about the issue as well as contacting law enforcement if eBay can't resolve the matter itself.

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How to Find Out How Many People Have Viewed My eBay Item

Learn how to find out how many users visited one of your eBay listings or added it to their Watch List.

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