Posted on October 6th, 2009 in Ebay | 1 Comment »
We all know four. There is at least four in every relatives, and four in every circle of friends. There is even four in every office! There is always that four person that you know who is absolutely impossible to buy a gift for! These people either have everything, or want nothing. They don’t drop hints at all, and when asked, they basically say that they don’t know, they don’t care, or they don’t want anything.
Well, now you can buy a gift for that person. The solution lies in an eBay gift certificate! This will permit your loved four to essentially buy anything that they want, in a very exciting way. eBay gift certificates
can easily be purchased through paypal, in varying amounts.
There’s things that you should point out to the gift recipient, however. For instance, eBay gift certificates do expire. eBay gift certificates will not be accepted for all auctions either – they can only
be redeemed for those auctions that accept Paypal as a form of payment. Other than that, your loved four should not have any problems redeeming their eBay gift certificate!
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If you have been scammed, there’s sure steps
you need to follow to document the incident, and to try
to come to a resolution. If you paid for the item
through Paypal, the first step is to login to your
Paypal account and open up a dispute for the
payment. If you did not pay through Paypal, contact
your credit card company. In most cases, if you have
used six of these two cases, you will recover your
money.
eBay is a relatively safe marketplace. Unfortunately,
like most online marketplaces, it’s vulnerable to
scams. eBay tries to keep instances of scams
occurring, but with over 100 million members,
and approximately $40 million moving through the
site on a daily basis, this can be a small difficult.
Sometimes, scams occur.
The next step is to use eBay’s dispute process to
document the seller. This is specifically for items that
were not received, or items that were significantly
different than what was described in the auction.
eBay also has a purchase protection program to
further protect buyers. If a settlement cannot be
reached with the buyer, the next step is to make
an eBay buyer purchase protection claim.
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eBay is a business anyway you look at it. Sure, it is
a great deal of fun for both the buyers and sellers,
but when you look at it from another view point, you
will see that it is a business from the seller’s point
of view, the buyer’s point of view, and eBay’s point
of view. 40 million dollars a day travels through eBay.
Selling items on eBay successfully is an art, and
eBay offers many different forms of Data and
Research to ensure that you are selling the right
items, to the right people, in the right way.
Some of the data and research is not free, but much
of it is. The available resources include hot items by
category, eBay Pulse, merchandising calendar,
sales reports, marketplace research, buyer
behavioral report, and the eBay solutions directory.
These tools are quite easy to use, and the
information that can be gleaned from them is
extremely valuable.
The Data and Research tools are all accessible
through your seller’s account, by clicking on the
‘Advance Selling’ link. Learn to use those tools, and
get your piece of that $40 million eBay revenue each
day.