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Ebay is the biggest online auction site in the world. It has a number of sites ranging across the globe from Ebay India, to UK, US, Germany, Canada and a host of others. To use the site in your area you need to sign up for it. You will also need a current credit or debit card, or bank account details if you want to sell on the site. To buy, you will require a Paypal Account available free of charge at http://www.paypal.co.uk . Paypal offers you some protection as a buyer.
Buying is slightly easier. You simply click to buy and make your bid. If it is highest at the end of the auction time which is shown on screen, you win. You will have chances to increase your bid if you wish. Care is needed when bidding though. Make sure that you have read the item description carefully as some of these can be very deceptive. For example, a friend of mine thought she was buying a bottle of Channel No5 that the seller claimed was an unwanted gift. She won it at 30 and was really pleased but what she had not noticed was that it was only a 5ml sample.
There is also a practise called shilling that raises its head from time to time on this site. This is where a seller, or a group known to that seller deliberately inflates the price of an item that is not attracting many bids.
If you are buying something that is expensive look at the seller's feedback and try to contact someone else who has previously dealt with them. Although feedback is provided by buyers and sellers this is not always reliable. There was recently a spate of sellers generating good feedback by selling items at 1p (you have to complete a transaction to leave feedback), in order to bump up their reputation.
Summary: Buying and selling on here can be fun but it is full of potential pitfalls.
I have left some auction prices below for Sandisk SD 2GB W MicroMate Reader Bundle and other items you may be interested in.
Click Picture Below to see great prices for Sandisk SD 2GB W MicroMate Reader Bundle on Ebay:
Product Details:
Sandisk SD 2GB W MicroMate Reader Bundle:
Large Capacity 2 GB SD Flash Card / Includes bonus MicroMate SD & SDHC compatible, high-speed USB 2.0 Reader
Check out these great prices on Sandisk SD 2GB W MicroMate Reader Bundle & Similar products on Ebay:I have been a member of Ebay for a while now and I find it brilliant, it is easy to join, all you need is a bank account and a few minutes to register for an Ebay account, you also have to set up a Paypal account which again only takes a few minutes and both are absolutely free, once you have done this you are up and running for both buying and selling on Ebay.
Auctions or Buy it now
You can either bid on items in the auctions or go to the buy it now section and get the item that you are after straight away, both ways are good, but sometimes in the auction you have to wait days for the listing to end, then again you can watch the item you want to buy in My Ebay section, which is at the top of your ebay home page, you can keep track of all your activites in this section, weather you are buying or selling, also you can log into your paypal account or make a list of your favourite sellers, this section is for your personal information on your ebay activities.
Paying for an item
When you buy an item and pay for it using, Paypal they pay the seller the amount required for you straight away, then they take it from your bank account a few days later, (usually about three days).
Then when you recieve your goods you leave feedback for the seller and they do the same for you, before buying or selling you can check a members feedback to see if it is positive or negitive, this is to show other members who the good Ebayers are.
Selling on Ebay
You can also sell any unwanted items you might have, again this is easy to do, just describe your item, choose what category it goes into and then add a picture of your item and thats your item listed.there is a small fee for this, but is only a few pence. approx 15p per picture added
If you dont recieve your item
Goods not recieved
There is a section where you can go to open a dispute, if you have paid for goods but did not recieve them, then this helps you to get a refund, which gives peace of mind .
Ebay is good for bargains or for those hard to get items, although sometimes you are better of just to buy the item from the shop, as some things are nearly the same price anyway, although this does not happen all the time, you do get bargains very often, I would highly recomend it .
I have left some auction prices below for Boss Audio BV6850T In Dash AM FM DVD CD Receiver w 2.5 TFT Monitor and other items you may be interested in.
Click Picture Below to see great prices for Boss Audio BV6850T In Dash AM FM DVD CD Receiver w 2.5 TFT Monitor on Ebay:
Product Details:
Boss Audio BV6850T In Dash AM FM DVD CD Receiver w 2.5 TFT Monitor:
ISO DIN mounting Motorized slide down full detachable panel DivX/WMA/DVD/MP3/MP4/CDR/CDRW and VCD compatible Built-in 2.5 TFT monitor Resolution: 960 x 234 pixels Brightness: 400 NITS NTSC/PAL compatible PLL synthesized AM/FM tuner On screen display 30 Station presets Built-in TV tuner (NTSC/PAL BG/I/DK switchable) Illuminated controls Preset EQ response curves Separate bass and treble Balance and fader controls Loudness Stereo/mono switch Local/distance switch Mute function Last position memory Repeat/intro/random Subwoofer output 1-Bit D/A converter ESP (anti-skip mechanism) Dual (front and rear) RCA outputs Wireless remote control Output power: 80w x 4 channels
Here are some current Ebay auctions just like I got my deal on: