A Seller's Critique

Really, what’s the point of even reviewing the world’s biggest auction site? Certainly a part-time seller like me can’t bring anything new to the table that millions of other reviews haven’t already mentioned. And that much is certainly true. Still, it’s a decent-sized part of my selling plan, as it is with millions of other sellers, and so I feel it should be included for the sake of completeness, if nothing else. SITE/NAVIGATION eBay's main landing page for me...and this is truncated. eBay’s home page is incredibly cluttered, though that seems to be the norm now, as online stores try to shove as many potential deals in your face as possible, right from the get-go. And, like everything else these days, the main page is all suited towards your likes and interests, using your search history and "watch list" items against you, in a desperate ploy to get you to buy something. I suppose it's an effective strategy, given the fact that every major site seem...

You probably knew that you could use Paypal to ship packages and items that people used Paypal to pay you for. But did you know that you can actually use it for all of your USPS and UPS shipping needs, regardless of where the order came from? For free? It's a little hidden and hard to find unless you know where to look, so let's find out how to access it, and see what it can do, shall we? SITE Main account dashboard. If you’re familiar with the Paypal site, then you should be pretty familiar with how to ship an order that you received via Paypal: Next to the transaction, there is a pulldown menu of available options. Select “ship” and you will be taken to the shipping screen to select your shipping service and to fill out all of the pertinent details. Alternatively, you can also click into the transaction itself, which will present you with a mini-plethora of options about ¾ of the way down, of which “Ship” is one of them (along with “Mark as Shipped”, “Refund”, et...