Let me back up first and explain. When buying and selling on eBay other buyers and sellers evaluate you based on your feedback rating. If you don't have any feedback or have some negative feedback from buyers and sellers, it will be more difficult to buy and sell items on eBay. Some bidders won't even allow you to bid on their items if you don't have "eBay history" in a form of several positive feedback ratings.
I've had my eBay account for over ten years, but have never bought much on it until recently. Once I started buying items on eBay I realized how important it is to have a high feedback rating.
While I was ordering items for my Kindle and my Android phone I realized that there are a lot of items that could be bought from Hong Kong for US$1!!! That price even includes shipping.
I would like to propose the following to existing eBay virgins.
- Create an Ebay account even if you don't think you will ever use it. I did not use my eBay account for the first SEVEN years, and now I have an eBay profile that looks like I'm an eBay veteran. The older your account looks, the more credible you will appear when you need to use it.
- Order about 10 $1 items from Hong Kong from different sellers. Ideally, order one item each from 10 different sellers. Each of those sellers will leave a positive reply if you pay promptly so this should be a piece of cake.
- Open a PayPal account. PayPal is the easiest and safest way to pay on eBay. Depending on where you live, in addition to your credit card, you can link your bank account to your PayPal account. It may take a week or so to get your PayPal account setup due to various steps you need to go through in order to confirm that your bank accounts are truly yours. Start early! The process is easy, it just has to be done in several steps with several days between the steps in order for the financial confirmation to go through.
