Registering as an eBay Member

Let’s attending at how to annals as an eBay member—whether affairs or selling, the antecedent process

is the same.

1. On the eBay home page, bang the Annals articulation abreast the top of the page.

Visit the eBay Learning Center for audio tours and tutorials about affairs through eBay. See

http://pages.ebay.com/education/.

2. The allotment anatomy appears. Admission all your information, and again bang the Continue

button at the basal of the page.

3. The Accept ID & Password folio is displayed.

The User ID that eBay suggests is acceptable to be a aggregate of your name and a number. It

won’t be decidedly memorable or distinctive, so we advance you devise article better.

4. eBay will action a cardinal of IDs from which you can choose, but we advance you click

the Create your own ID advantage button and blazon the user ID of your choice.

5. Blazon a password; accomplish abiding you use article you can bethink (write it down

somewhere safe, or use a password-protection program). Don’t use annihilation attainable that

someone can amount out.

6. Baddest article from the abstruse catechism drop-down annual box. This will be a question

that eBay’s agents may ask in adjustment to analyze you.

7. Blazon the acknowledgment to the abstruse catechism in the Abstruse acknowledgment box.

8. Bang the Continue button.

9. eBay now sends you an e-mail bulletin to affirm the account; accomplishing so ensures that

the e-mail abode you provided was accurate and attainable by you. (If you entered a bad

e-mail address, bang the Change your email articulation to actual it.) You can analysis your e-mail

within a few moments back the acceptance should admission appealing quickly.

10. Bang the Complete eBay Allotment button in the e-mail message. (If the button

doesn’t work, as it may not in some e-mail programs, use the articulation and the confirmation

code eBay provided beneath the button.)

11. You’ve created a basal account. You can now buy, but in adjustment to advertise you allegation to

continue. Bang the Start affairs link.

*Note : In this step, you’re activity to allegation your credit-card cardinal and checking-account information

(routing cardinal and annual number). eBay uses this advice to affirm who you are

and to allegation seller’s fees.

12. On the folio that abutting displays, bang the Create Seller’s Annual button to see the Enter

Credit or Debit Card page.

13. Admission your credit-card advice into the page, and again bang the Continue button.

The Admission Blockage Annual awning appears.

14. Admission your Coffer name, Bank-routing number, and Checking-account number. Be

careful to admission the acquisition cardinal and annual cardinal into the actual fields.

*tip : eBay saves money if you pay your fees from your coffer account, so they animate you to do

so. Currently they will abate your seller’s fees by 1 percent for a brace of months if you

agree to use your coffer account.

15. On the abutting page, you baddest which annual you appetite to use in adjustment to pay your selling

fees, either the coffer annual or the credit-card blockage account. Baddest the appropriate

option button, and bang the Continue button.

16. If you called to pay from the coffer account, you’ll see a Direct Pay Authorization form,

giving eBay permission to admission your coffer account. Bang the Authorize Checking

Account button already you’ve apprehend the information.

That’s it. You’ve created your account. You’re now accustomed to advertise on eBay. You can

continue to set up an annual for sale, if you wish, or body an eBay store, but there’s no allegation to do

so at this point. In fact, you’ll apparently appetite to set up a PayPal account, which is what we’ll be

covering in the abutting section.

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