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− | I do not think it matters where you are these days, if you mention the name ' eBay ', there is a person there who has either bought an item on it, or who has sold one thing on it, eBay has turn out to be a household name around the globe. I began buying and selling on ebay around 7 years ago. There are thousands of individuals residing in the U.S. that make complete time living's selling item's on eBay, and thousands a lot more that acquire items on it every day.
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− | eBay was started by a single man named ' Pierre Omidyar '. When Pierre was 28 years old he began writing the programming code that was to turn out to be the net internet site eBay. The site was launched online on Sep 4, 1995, ' Labor Day ' here in the U.S. At initial it wasn't known as eBay, but was named ' Auction Internet '. Later it was modified to ' ebay ' , which was a short version of a consulting firm Pierre owned named ' Echo Bay '. eBay was free at the commence, then it began charging charges to support cover it's net fees for hosting and other charges. At the time, Pierre was dating a lady that collected PEZ toys, she utilised the new eBay website in its earliest incarnation to get and sell rare dispensers. In 1996 Jeffrey Skoll, a Stanford MBA, joined the organization and by 1998 eBay had gone public in the stock industry, producing Omidyar a billionaire. In 2005, Omidyar's 214 million eBay shares had been worth around $eight billion. In March 1998, Meg Whitman was brought in as President and CEO of eBay exactly where she serves nevertheless these days
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− | Let's commence by going to the eBay website and joining. Just check out: www.ebay.com and you will be taken to the major page of the web site. As soon as there look towards the leading area of the screen and you will see text that says: ' Hello! Sign in or register. ', utilizing the mouse button, click on ' register '. Immediately after clicking on ' register ' you will be taken to a screen with a type on it, enter the details about oneself, such as your name, address, telephone quantity and email address. Next you will be taken to yet another screen where you have to pick a password and ebay user name, the eBay user-name is the ID or Name you will be recognized by to other ebay bidders and shoppers.
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− | The password need to be a thing that is not prevalent, for instance do not use your initial or final name, or some frequent word such as ' pencil ', or ' laptop or computer ', take your time and decide on something tough and a tiny long, make certain you create this password down and keep it close to your personal computer in case you forget it. I recommend writing your ebay password on a yellow post-it note and hanging it someplace close to your personal computer.
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− | When your done with the username and password screen, you just have to check your e-mail for the confirmation link that eBay sends you, just click on the link as shown in the e-mail to activate your eBay account, now you have joined eBay, and you can start off bidding and buying appropriate away, but just before you do let me tell you about the diverse attributes of eBay and how some issues perform.
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− | eBay is not just an auction site, I mean you do not have to bid and wait for an auction to finish, in order to acquire every item on eBay. In truth a lot of things can be purchased for a set fee, and bought immediately, these are known as ' Buy Now ' listings. For an example of how listings differ from every other, let's look at some ebay items. Let's say you and I are looking for a ' singing fish ', the fish that look like their mounted and displayed on a piece of wood, when an individual gets close to it, it will start singing and move it's mouth and tail, they are frequently known as ' large mouth billy bass '.
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− | To see if eBay has any of the ' singing fish ', we just go to the major ebay page (www.ebay.com) and in the 'SEARCH' location, kind in: singing fish, and the screen shows there are at present 60 diverse products or listings found. I scroll down and select one particular of the listings, it at present shows the current bid value is $7.00 and it has had four bids, with 1 day and 13 hours remaining just before the listing or auction ends. If I really wanted this item, and was prepared to pay up to $15.00 for it, I would just click on ' Location Bid ', and enter my ebay username and password, if requested to [http://vnface.net/index.php?do=/blog/1206/what-is-electronic-data-interchange/ the best] [http://speedyconnections.net/index.php?do=/blog/1221/what-is-electronic-data-interchange/ details] [http://amunks.com/read_blog/22480/what-is-electronic-data-interchange? visit]
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