Online Auctions - Searching on eBay Part 2

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Enter Payment and Shipping: This screen will allow you to select the payment methods you will offer the winner, places you are willing to ship to, shipping costs, shipping insurance, sales tax, your return policy and buyer requirements.

Payment methods -As we've talked about before, you can choose from:

• PayPal
• Money Order/Cashier’s Check
• Personal Check
• Other/See Item Description

Places you are willing to ship to including Americas, Canada, Mexico, Europe, United Kingdom, Germany, Asia, Australia, Japan, and Worldwide.

Shipping costs - You have two options:

• Flat – same cost to all buyers (this works fairly well if you are only mailing within the USA).
• Calculated – You can give your winner several different options based on where they live.

Shipping insurance - If your item is valuable, one of a kind, or has a breakage risk you should consider offering this.

Sales tax - This option is selected to “I don’t charge tax.” You can change this if you choose. I recommend you do not change it at this time. As your business grows you may be required to charge sales tax for the state you are in, but most states do not require it for a one time small gain auction.

Return policy - You can select to accept returns or not. With that you can choose for how many days you will accept returns and how you will refund.

Payment instruction - This text box allow you to give clear instructions to the buyer for payment and shipping.

Buyer requirements - This option allows you to block certain bidders you choose not to do business with.

Screen 6 – Sell Your Item: Review & Submit Listing - This is the final screen where you can review and edit all the in-put you have typed in and the options you have selected.

After you have reviewed all points of your auction, made any corrections or edits, click on “Submit Listing” and you are off to the races.

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