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eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition
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eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

by Marsha Collier
February 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
648 pages
15h 22m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Understanding eBay Transactions

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Checking out a listing page

check Bidding on an auction or buying something right now

check 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.

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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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