There are many, many members of the eBay network – some 100million people in fact. When you use ebay, you can buy many different items in near enough any category that you can think of – Through eBay, you can buy items in almost any category that you can imagine – at great prices. You can also sell almost anything you can imagine on eBay – people often sell items that have absolutely no real value for very high prices. There are limits, however, to what can be bought and sold.

What you can’t sell on eBay

Restricted items – eBay doesn’t permit you to sell certain items through an auction on their site.  Selling services is considered one type of ‘item’ that can not be auctioned on eBay, as the item isn’t actually an item at all. However, some sellers do clearly ignore this condition and set up an eBay auction selling their services.  eBay also doesn’t allow anyone to open an auction for anything that is considered illegal, with eBay restricting any item that they consider could be constituted as ‘illegal for sale’ in any other format too. So, illegal items on the street, such as satellite descramblers are not allowed to be sold.

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When you’re a new ebay seller, you probably don’t realise the importance of pricing your auctions correctly when you are discovering your ebay success plan. With many new business sellers not knowing that there is a ‘pricing’ plan that needs to be formulated, after all eBay is an auction site.  However, eBay auctions aren’t the same as other auctions for houses that you may have visited in the off-line world, but, are in fact there is lots of work on the sellers behalf in determining the right price for an item in an ebay auction.

So, there are essentially only three prices that you ax the seller can set for an ebay auction – the ‘buy it now’ price, the starting price for a bid, and the reserve price that you would like to set, so that the item will be sold at this price at the very least.  Not all of these three prices are required to start an ebay auction, the only one being the starting price, with both the ‘buy it now’ and reserve prices being optional.   When you are starting an auction, you should be aware that placing the starting price at more than $50 could impact negatively on people bidding on your item – so, low initial pricing is the key to get people bidding on your product.

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There are a whole host of people that have been scammed and defrauded on eBay, with many following the ebay scam emails they are sent. eBay is meant to be a place that is fun to bid on and sell items, but, it has now been a fun place to bid on items and to sell items – you should be aware of a few tips to help you spot scams and how to avoid them, or you will quickly become a person who has lost their money to eBay scams. Now, if you have been already scammed, then there are some immediate actions that you should take to correct the situation, but, generally in many instances the scammer gets away with it! The best thing you can do is to take the following steps to avoid being scammed:

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