Register on eBay
The first thing to do is
register as a business on eBay. Many buyers have more confidence in business registered sellers and search only for items sold by businesses.
Register your VAT ID with eBay (you must register as a business first)
Learn about your legal and business obligations
Why should you register as a business?
Enable buyers to pay you securely with PayPal
PayPal enables your customers to pay you quickly and confidently without having to enter their card details each time, providing a first-class customer experience.
PayPal also saves you the hassle of dealing with your customers' sensitive financial details. It's completely integrated with eBay and payments are instant, so you have the confidence to send goods to buyers quickly.
Read more about the
benefits of PayPal
Take our PayPal tutorial or
Register with PayPal today
Learn about the different eBay listing formats and fees
There's a number of different ways to sell items on eBay – auction-style listings, fixed-price, Shops Inventory format and more. Different formats and items have different fees associated with them. You might find it useful to check which formats other sellers use to sell the items you want to sell.
Learn more about eBay
Listing formats
Carry out a completed item search
Watch auctions for similar items
Research the eBay market
In addition, if you haven't already, you'll learn loads about how eBay works if you
buy a few items.
Familiarise yourself with eBay policies
All sellers should be aware of the following eBay policies. These policies help to keep eBay a safe place to trade. Making sure you know our policies before you sell will help you avoid breaking our rules:
Prohibited and Restricted Items
Keyword Spamming policy
Shill Bidding
Policies on
offering to buy and sell away from eBay
How eBay Protects
Intellectual Property
Feedback policies
Other policies
Start selling!
Now you've registered as a business, joined PayPal and familiarised yourself with eBay listing formats, fees and policies, it's finally time to start selling.
List an item for sale on eBay now
eBay's
listing and management tools cater for all different sizes of seller. They'll help you to upload lots of items to eBay quickly and manage your sales.
Manage your buyers
Provide great customer service and you'll get great feedback. As your feedback score increases you'll become more attractive to potential buyers.
Answering questions and post-order queries quickly creates confidence in your business and encourages people to buy from you again.
Learn more about
feedback
Learn how to
Cancel Unwelcome Bids
Use
My eBay to manage your sales and set up bidder rules such as the minimum feedback a member must have before they can bid on your items.
Open an eBay Shop
An eBay Shop enables you to list items indefinitely rather than for a short period of time. You can add your company logo and colours to customise your shop. You'll also have your own website address (eg: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/your shop name/) which you can promote externally.
75% of eBay sellers surveyed said that opening a shop increased their sales*
Find out more about the benefits of
opening an eBay shop
* Based on data from eBay Shops survey, June 2005. No representation is made that your sales will increase after opening an eBay Shop.
