Becoming an Ebay Member - A Step-by-Step Tutorial of the eBay Registration Process
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008
by Ronnie Bredahl
Austin Referral Realty
The purpose of this article is to help you learn how to become an active eBay member. This is a step-by-step tutorial on becoming an eBay member, and when we are through, you should have no question of how to complete the process.
- In order you register and become an eBay member, you must go to the ebay website.
- After you arrive at the home page, you will need to click on the signup link.
- You will be presented with a form, which must be filled out completely. There will be a notation a field on the form is required. Generally speaking, however, all information asked on the form will be required.
- You will now need to select a username. This name will follow you throughout the eBay site. It must be a unique name that no other eBay member is using. There will be a button next to the username field to check the availability of your name.
- Next, you need to select a password. You want to choose a password that is easy for you, but hard for others to guess.
- While going through this registration process, take note that you must be 18 to become an eBay member.
- Finally, you'll be presented with the sites terms of use and privacy policy. You must agree to these terms, and it will ask you to select that you do agree with the terms as outline before it will let you go any further. Ebay takes these terms very seriously, and any infraction of the rules may cause your account to be closed.
Becoming an eBay member is a great thing to accomplish. Whether or not most people realize it, an eBay membership, when you think about it, is quite important. You can quite literally find brand new merchandise that is as much as 75% of the regular retail price. It is just like any other place, the more of something available, the better the price will be.
As previously mentioned, you will want to make sure that you follow eBay's terms of service, as failure to do so could result in the loss of your membership, and becoming an eBay member a second time, may not be possible. Understand though, that they will not just arbitrarily close out your account. If there is an infraction, a warning will usually follow. Repeated infractions however, will result in the membership be closed out. Always make sure that when you bid on and win an item, this is deemed as an agreement by you to purchase an item from a seller. As such, you are required to make payment and complete the transaction. Failure to do so will result in an unpaid item strike. Three of those, and your membership is closed without further notice. So, as you can see, becoming an eBay member is quite easy. Enjoy your membership!
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