The checkout will be offered to your buyers automatically. When they win an item, eBay send them an email with a ‘Pay Now' button that takes them to the checkout, and they can also access it through their My eBay page.
It is in step 4 of the ‘Sell Your Item' process, the payment and shipping step, that you can choose which kinds of payment you want to accept through the checkout and which you don't.
PayPal: You should be accepting PayPal. You might want to click ‘Edit Preferences', however, to either select or de-select the ‘tell buyers I prefer PayPal payments' box – you don't want to tell people you love PayPal when you only tolerate it. If you're selling Buy it Now items, you can also tick the box to require immediate PayPal payment for them.
Money orders and cheques: tick these boxes if you want to accept the more ‘traditional' payment methods. Your address will be revealed to your buyers so that they can post the payment to you – you should make sure eBay have the correct address.
You may also tick credit cards to accept, which you should do if you have your own merchant account or an account at somewhere like NoChex that you'd like to use.
It's also worth writing any instructions that might be needed in the box on this page, such as who to make cheques out to or a warning that international non-PayPal payments might take a long time.
What Happens When Buyers Use It?
Once you've set the checkout up on your items, buyers will be able to choose which way they would like to pay you out of the options available, and eBay's checkout will take them through the process step-by-step. This will save you the trouble of having to explain things.
When the buyer pays or agrees how to pay, eBay will send you an item letting you know what happened. If might tell you that the money is now in your PayPal account and you should send the item, or it might say that they've put a cheque in the post. Remember to wait for payments to clear before you send anything.
That's it – the role of the checkout is over. You just configure the checkout; it's the buyer who deals with it the most. You might have noticed, though, that you can configure the checkout differently for different items. This is sometimes worth doing if you some of the items you sell are worth more than others, and you'd prefer not to accept PayPal for the highly-valued ones, for example.
By now, you might be a little sick of going through the ‘Sell Your Item' screens each time you want to list something. The next email will show you how to use eBay's automated listing tools.
How To Use Ebay Gift Card
Did you know EBay and Paypal have been giving away electronic discount coupons for some time and hundreds of users have been cashing in on them? Also called ?redemption codes,? these special savings opportunities are little known but can save you substantial sums. And since coupons can be used on any item from any seller that accepts PayPal, your selection is huge!
If you have received a coupon for eBay via email, you are one of the lucky and select few. eBay and PayPal seldom send coupon or gift certificate offers to all members, only to those who meet certain criteria.
For example, sometimes eBay will use electronic discount coupons to entice a member back to the site. This means that if you were a fairly active buyer on eBay and suddenly stopped buying, they may email you an offer of a discount on your next purchase. This kind of coupon is usually accompanied by your email address, which means it is only valid for you to use and will have an expiry date.
Sometimes EBay offers electronic discount coupons to a certain group of members. If they are experiencing low sales in a particular area, they may send the coupon codes to users who have previously purchased those items.
eBay also offers more general coupons. Even though they may originally be emailed to targeted members, the offers can be used by other buyers who met the stated criteria. A good rule of thumb to follow is that if it doesn't reference an email address, the coupon can be shared.
Paypal also offers occasional discount coupons by email for different promotional reasons. Sometimes they are for every user and, other times, they are for certain users, groups or areas. A recent promotion at Christmas time featured free shipping and discounts of $5 to $20 from selected online merchants. PayPal promotions are also run via electronic discount coupons and have expiry dates and conditions of use.
Where to Find eBay and PayPal Coupons
Coupons that can be used by others are often mentioned on eBay's chat forum, and in forums associated with other websites that announce bargains and deals. You can also find these types of coupons by doing a web search for ?eBay coupon code? (or ?Paypal coupon code?), but many such links are expired and some may be fraudulent, so be careful.
Restrictions on Using eBay and PayPal Coupons
The most important thing to remember is that you must find and buy an item that accepts PayPal and then pay with PayPal. You will only see the discount when using PayPal as payment. If you have a coupon code and plan to use it on an eBay purchase, it is your responsibility to verify before buying that the seller does accept PayPal. You are still obligated to pay the seller for the item even though you cannot use your eBay coupon or gift certificate.
Currently, coupons are only valid for items listed on eBay.com, eBay.ca, and eBay.co.uk.
Make sure that the email address on the coupon is associated with your PayPal account; if it isn't, add that email address to your PayPal account.
All eBay discount coupons have expiration dates.
How to Redeem
Generally, a digital discount coupon is a long code that you enter on the payment screen when you win an item. On PayPal there is a box labeled ?Coupons, Gift Certificates and eBay Anything Points?. This is where you enter the coupon code number. If validated, the discount will be automatically deducted from the balance due. If your coupon doesn't cover the total cost of the item, the remainder of the funds will be deducted from your PayPal account or the bank account associated with it.
The person selling the item has no indication that you have used a coupon (the savings come from eBay, not from the seller) and the sale goes proceeds as usual.
Given the fact that you can buy unique and highly desirable items on eBay at very attractive prices to begin with, the possibility of adding to your savings by using an eBay or PayPal coupon is not one to be missed. By making regular checks to see if there are any discounts currently available via eBay or Paypal, you can be one of the people taking advantage of these savings.
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