Chapter 4
Understanding eBay Transactions
IN THIS CHAPTER
Checking out a listing page
Bidding on an auction or buying something right now
Shopping eBay’s specialty sites
Sometimes, when you know exactly what you want to buy, you find not one but many auctions and fixed-price listings with that same item for sale. In this situation, knowing the different eBay sales formats is important. In this chapter, I go over the various types of sales and show you the ways to use each type to your advantage.
Checking Out the Listing Page
All item pages on eBay — whether auctions, fixed-price items, or Buy It Now items — look about the same. Figure 4-1 shows your options on a conventional auction-item page. If you were viewing the entire auction page, you could scroll down and see a complete description of the item, along with shipping information.
FIGURE 4-1: Either place a bid, or buy the item outright.
eBay auction listings have some subtle differences. (With a venue as big as eBay, you gotta have some flexibility.) You may see the words PayPal Credit (which indicates you can use PayPal’s ...
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