Using eBay: Buying Items
To
look for an item, you don't need to register -- you can browse,
search and watch items (up to 10) as a guest. You can't bid or buy as
a guest, though. So the next step is to register with eBayhere.
It's quick and free.
Now
we can place a bid on the set of Simpsons Pez dispensers. If we click
on the link in our watch list, we end up back at the auction page.
There
are four main sections to any auction page:
Title/Overview -
This is where you see the basic information, like auction title,
price, shipping price, seller information and how many bids have
been placed so far.
Shipping,
payment and return policy -
This is where you can find full shipping information, any details
the seller wants a bidder to know about making payment (including
which methods are accepted) and what the seller's return policy is.
eBay's
bidding process works like this: You enter the maximum amount you are
willing to pay for the item, and eBay bids incrementally on your
behalf until the bidding reaches the maximum amount you entered. So
if we decide we are willing to pay $2.00 for this set of Pez
dispensers, we enter $2.00 in the bid slot.
