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• Power Ebay Buying
  Ebay buying. No matter what you are looking for you can buy it on Ebay. Read the pages on this site and become an Ebay Buying powerhouse.
  
  
• Bidding and Buying on Ebay
  bidding and buying on eBay are hot topics of the moment. Whenever you open a newspaper, watch the TV or have a conversation, people seem to be talking about eBay buying? Here's everything you need to get started..
  
  
• THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BUYING ON EBAY.
  Whatever you want to buy, whether its large or small, cheap or expensive, everyday or just plain weird, the chances are you can find it on eBay. Mke sure you know the advantages and disadvantages of buying on ebay.
  
  
• YOUR EBAY BUYER'S RIGHTS
  ebay buyer's rights are central to the whole ethos of ebay buying. When you buy things on eBay, you pay the seller before they send you anything. Your ebay buyer's rights are designed to protect you
  
  
• 10 WAYS TO AVOID BEING RIPPED OFF ON EBAY.
  The chances of being ripped off on eBay is always present. Ebay is a lot like a marketplace. There will always be a dodgy guy in the corner, selling things that most people wouldn't touch. Here are ten tips to help you keep an eye out for the rip-off merchants.
  
  
• HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR BUYERS REPUTATION?
  Your ebay buyers reputation (or feedback rating) is the most important thing people see when they deal with you on eBay. It is on the basis of this little number that they will decide whether they can trust you or not.
  
  
• HOW TO CHECK AN EBAY SELLERS REPUTATION (AND WHY YOU...
  You should always check the ebay sellers reputation, or feedback rating. This is a quick and easy-to-read summary of their history as an eBay seller, which gives you some idea of whether or not you should trust them with your money. Buying anything is a calculated risk: you want to minimise that risk.
  
  
• UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENT EBAY AUCTION TYPES.
  Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types, in an effort to give people more options when they buy and sell their things on eBay. There are many people who dont like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend. Equally, there are people who have hundreds of the same item and dont want to sell them individually. This page gives you an overview of the different kinds of auctions and how to spot them.
  
  
• WHEN TO BUY NOW AND WHEN TO BID.
  You will often find yourself facing the choice of whether to pay a fixed price or keep on bidding. This choice might be presented to you in a single auction, or you might be choosing between different auctions of the different types. So should you use that Buy it Now button or keep on trying to outbid everyone else? Its all a question of weighing up the advantages and disadvantages.
  
  
• EBAY AUCTION BUYERS TIPS AND TRICKS.
  eBay isnt just an auction and a marketplace: often it can feel quite a lot like a game. Like any game, you can get ahead if you think strategically, using your head to outwit the other buyers and get the best price. Here are a few things you can try.
  
  
• WHEN AND HOW TO WITHDRAW YOUR EBAY BID (AND WHY...
  eBay are a little strict about letting you withdraw your bid. They call it a bid retraction, and have a stringent set of conditions that you must meet before you are allowed to do it. Here are eBays three acceptable reasons for withdrawing a bid.
  
  
• YOU WON THAT EBAY AUCTION! NOW WHAT DO YOU DO?
  It's a heady feeling when you win your first eBay auction: a mixture of happiness and perhaps just a little fear. After all, there seems to be so much to do before you can actually get your item. What do you do next?
  
  
• HOW SAFE IS EBAY?
  Just How safe is ebay? All of eBay's safety services for buyers and sellers are in one place, called SafeHarbor. SafeHarbor handles fraud prevention and investigation, helps with dispute resolution and keeps rule-breakers in check. Read all about it next time, and be safe.
  
  
• USING PAYPAL ON EBAY.
  PayPal and eBay were made for each other and now that eBay own PayPal, using them together is getting even easier.
  
  
• HOW TO GET EBAY COUPONS.
  You have to be very lucky to be one of the chosen few who receive an eBay coupon by email. These coupons are just like cash that you can use towards anything you buy on eBay the only conditions being that you pay using PayPal, and that you are using eBay in the USA, Canada or the UK.
  
  
• INTRODUCING THE NEW EBAY BUYERS CREDIT PROGRAM.
  In an effort to compete with more traditional shops, eBay has started to offer finance agreements though PayPal for expensive items. This means that, if the seller decides to offer it, you can now spread the cost of an item into affordable monthly payments.
  
  
• TIPS AND TRICKS FOR USING EBAY SEARCH.
  If you know what youre doing, you can quickly find what you're looking for on eBay. Here are a few golden rules.
  
  
• WHEN THINGS GO WRONG: HOW TO RESOLVE EBAY DISPUTES.
  eBay has quite an intricate and long-winded dispute resolution procedure. I'll try to break each step down for you, so you can see whats involved and how long it takes.
  
  
• Buying Presents for People.
  Buying presents for people on ebay/ Here's how I do it: think of the last thing the person youre buying a present for bought for themselves. Type it into eBays search engine. Now take a look at which category it's in, and click the link to look at everything in the category. Straight away, you have a huge list of things that theyre probably be happy to receive and if you know them well, you should have no trouble picking through to find something really special.
  
  
• WATCH OUT FOR EBAY AUTOMOBILE AND COMPUTER SCAMS.
  There aren't that many scammers on eBay but the ones there are tend to be greedy. This means that they will always try to pull their scams on high-value items like cars and computers, so that they can make a lot of money quickly. Since buyers generally buy these items very rarely, they may not know about the various scams out there.
  
  
• TIPS FOR BUYING COLLECTIBLES ON EBAY.
  Buying collectibles is one of the most enjoyable things to do on eBay, simply because you can find so many things that you just cant get anywhere else. Here are a few tips to help you on your way.
  
  
• TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SLOW EBAY AUCTIONS.
  Some auctions get hundreds of bids, but some go much more slowly, getting only a few bids or even none at all for days. Auctions are generally much slower during the summer months than they are in the winter and sales on eBay are slowing each year, as more sellers than buyers sign up, hoping to get rich quick. There are a number of ways that you can take advantage of slower auctions to get the best price.
  
  
• TOP 10 STRANGEST EBAY ITEMS EVER SOLD.
  Top 10 strangest eBay items ever sold. eBay can be a very odd place, given that you can sell almost anything you want. Here are the auctions we've picked as being the strangest ever.
  
  
• HOW TO BECOME AN EBAY SNIPER.
  If you bid for a few things on eBay, the chances are that sooner or later you'll end up getting your bid beaten at the very last second by a sniper. This can be a frustrating experience, and while in theory sniping is against the rules and you can report it to eBay, in practice they never do anything about it. The bad news is that theres only one way to beat the sniper and thats to become the sniper. The good news, though, is that once you understand sniping you can use it to win auctions at a far lower price than you would otherwise.
  
  
• UNDERSTANDING EBAY BUYING TOOLS.
  eBay offers quite a few simple tools to help make your buying easier, so you don't lose track of what youre doing. Most of them are on the My eBay screen if youre logged in, you can go there just by clicking My eBay on the toolbar at the top of any eBay page.
  
  
• THE EBAY BUYERS FAQ.
  Ebay FAQ provides the answers to the most frequenly unanswered questions posed to ebay. Ebay is notorious for being poor at answering many questions.
  
  
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  news stories about ebay from sources around the world
  
  
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