eBay® for Dummies®, 6th Edition

Chapter 11. Save Gas — Drive Your Mouse to an eBay Store

In This Chapter

• Shopping eBay Stores

• Opening your own eBay store

• Searching eBay Stores

Sometimes you just don't want to participate in an auction. Sometimes you want to buy your item now. The easiest place to go for this type of transaction is to purchase an item from a fixed-price listing or from an eBay store, where you find ready-to-buy items. Visiting the stores can save you money because buying multiple items from one seller allows several items to be shipped in a single box. Even if the items have to be shipped separately, many sellers will discount shipping costs on multiple purchases.

Much of the fine merchandise that you can find on eBay can be found also in the eBay Stores area. Regular eBay sellers run these stores, which are located in a separate area from the regular auctions. eBay Stores is a place where sellers can list as many additional items for sale as they'd like for a reduced insertion fee. Buyers are lured to the store by the small red eBay Stores icon that appears next to the seller's user ID.

Tip

Whenever you're looking at an auction and you see that the seller has a store, be sure to click the Stores icon. The seller may have the same (or similar) merchandise in his or her eBay store for a lower buy price.

If sellers have an eBay store, they can list individual items for different sizes of an article of clothing, different variations of items that they sell in regular auctions, or anything that falls within ...