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Small Business Guide To Buying Items:
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Understanding
eBay Buying Tools
by Jeff Cohen
eBay offers quite a few simple tools to help
make your buying easier, so you don’t lose track of what you’re
doing. Most of them are on the ‘My eBay’ screen – if you’re
logged in, you can go there just by clicking ‘My eBay’ on the
toolbar at the top of any eBay page.
My
Summary
Your summary screen shows what you’re currently buying or
selling, as well as any announcements eBay want to make that
day. It is set up as a list of reminders, so it will tell you
if there are items you need to pay for or if you have been
outbid – it’s like your eBay ‘to do’ list.
You can make this screen show what you want it to by clicking
‘Customise Summary’ in the top-right corner. To go to any of
the other buying tools pages from here, use the menu on the
left of the screen, under ‘All Buying’.
Watching: This is your watchlist – the auctions you have decided
are worth keeping an eye on but don’t want to bid on yet. To
add an auction to this page, click ‘Watch this item’ in the
top-right corner of its description page. To delete an item,
just put a tick in its box on the Watching page and then click
the Delete button.
Bidding: This is a list of all the items you’re currently
bidding on. Items that you’re currently the winning bidder
on are highlighted in green, while items that you’ve been outbid
on are shown in red, with an option to bid again.
Best
Offers: You can see here all of the best offers you’ve
made on Buy it Now items, and whether or not the seller accepted
them.
Won
and Didn’t Win: This is where the items from the Bidding
page go when the auction is over. If you won the item, then
you will be able to choose an action depending on how far along
you are in the buying process. From here, you can pay, tell
the seller you’ve sent payment, or leave feedback once you’ve
got the item. You should keep going through these steps until
you’ve done them all. There are small blue icons to show you
which of these steps you have completed so far, and whether
the seller has left any feedback for you.
Don’t worry if you don’t often get the chance to check back
at My eBay. If anything important happens, eBay will email
you, and the email should contain a button or link to let you
do whatever you need to do. If you want real control all the
time, though, then the tools available on the My eBay page
can work well for you.
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