Buckaru's Guide to eBay: Basic Buying

You would think this book is about eBay but it's more than that. We use eBay as a reference to what you can do on any internet auction site. Even though we talk about eBay and eBay auctions, what we are really talking about is internet sales in general and specifically Internet auctions. Most internet auction sites operate in the same manner that eBay does. You list your items for sale, people bid on them driving the price up, and then at some point the item sells and you get paid for the product. Also most internet auction sites have some form of feedback system, some sort of email system and some sort of payment system built into them. We will touch on and discuss all these things here.

In this book we will talk about various ideas and various ways to do different things that relate to Internet auctions. In particular:

Course description
- Reasons for buying on eBay
- PayPal

Searching for an item to buy
- Keywords
- Search result page
- Advanced search
- Customizing the search result list
- Searching by category
- Product finder
- Saving searches
- "Want It Now"

How to buy your item
- Determining value
- Determining whether this listing is right for you
- Analyzing individual listings
- Buying it now
- Bidding
- Automatic bidding
- Asking questions

After winning the auction
- Credit cards
- Money orders and checks
- Escrow services
- Other methods
- Inadvisable methods
- Giving feedback
- Buyer protection

After losing the auction

Other resources
- My eBay
- Other sources of help
- eBay community
- Learning Center
- Security and resolution center

Free Bonuses

Index