Creating an Account on eBay
Tips and FAQ for a Home Business

The very first step in doing anything on eBay is to create an account. Give some thought as to what you will primarily be using this account for. If you are going to be doing home business work, then by all means give yourself a username that reflects that. If your home business is LisaOrigami, then name your account LisaOrigami. That way people who see the bids get to associate you with them. When they buy items, the name sticks in their head. In general you want the name to seem reliable and trustworthy. JoeTheThief is probably a bad name! SillyLittleGirl would be equally questionable. Sure, it's just a name, but it is the only thing people can "see" of you and it really does leave an impression.

Associate the eBay account with a PayPal account, to make payments run more smoothly. You probably want that to be a "business account" on PayPal, i.e. the kind that can accept credit cards. This makes life MUCH smoother in general, even though PayPal will take a small percentage of sales as a transaction fee. The alternative is to use a "personal" PayPal account which cannot handle credit cards. If you do that, then every single person who tries to pay you with a bank debit card or credit card funding is going to get error messages, because you can't handle those sales. It's well worth it just to pay the fee to PayPal and to take that into account when you set your prices.

Once you have your account set up, you will begin with a zero rating. You are a newbie. It's time to get your reputation built up!

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