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What is eBay?
What is eBay? I think the site’s official mission statement does a good job of summing up what eBay is all about:
eBay’s mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything.
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eBay – Short History
eBay was born over Labor Day weekend in 1995, when Pierre Omidyar, a computer programmer, wrote the code for an auction website that he ran from his home computer.
Today, Omidyar’s hobby is known as eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace – where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. It’s an idea that BusinessWeek once called “nothing less than a virtual, self-regulating global economy.”
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Costs of Using eBay
You don’t have to pay eBay anything to browse through items on its site. You don’t have to pay eBay
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Creating a Seller’s Account
If you intend to sell items on eBay, you’ll need to provide a little bit more information to eBayin particular, your checking account number and either a credit or debit card number. The credit/debit card number is for billing purposes; your card is billed for all seller’s fees you incur. (You can also choose to pay via checking account withdrawal; eBay bills your account once a month.) The checking account information is used to confirm that you are who you say you are, in an attempt to weed out fraudulent sellers from the system.
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Signing Up on eBay
eBay asks all members to supply a valid physical address and telephone number. They don’t disclose this info to any third parties outside the eBay site, although they will supply appropriate personal data to other eBay users on their request.
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Contacting eBay
You can access eBay contact page by clicking Contact Us on the Help Page. Select a topic, subtopic, and specific issue, and then click Continue.
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eBay Sitemap
If you’ve never visited the Site Map page, I guarantee you’ll be surprised at everything you’ll find there. The Site Map offers direct links to a bunch of features and services that you probably didn’t even know existed!