Please answer if you know about how ebay and pay pal work?

Question

I heard pay pal hack people and take their

money from ebay costumers. a friend told me this and I wanted to know is

it true. Please be honest and have you heard anything like this

happening. #. Is ebay safe and can people hack or get your credit card

details easily. #. If you sell something can you give it to the person

by meeting up with them. #. how long can you advertise something on

ebay. #. i want to only sell to people from my city only so can i do

that. i dont want to sell to people outside my city. #. if something is

on buy it now how long does it stay for. #. can you delete something you

wanted to sell after you advertised it. #. what are the chances that you

will be able to sell your items because i advertised some things on

gumtree for a few days and no one emailed me so I took it off. thank you

Answer 1

Boy that's a lot of questions!

1) I've been using PayPal for a number of years with no problems.  It's a very secure method to handle payment transactions.

2) You can put in your listings that your items are for "local pickup only" meaning that you will not ship the item.  After you sell it (if you sell it), you would make arrangements to pickup up the item.  If you do this your sales success will be very low.  I do a fair amount of selling on eBay and most of my sales are out of state.

3) You can list an item as long as you like. When you're setting up the listing, there's an option to set your listing time.  Most listings are 1 week.

4) If you list an item with a "Buy Now" price, it will stay on your listing as long as there are no bids.  If someone places a bid, the buy now price goes away.

5) You can delete a listing, as long as no one has bid on the item.  That also goes for editing your listing.  You can edit it (reduce the price, etc) as long as no one has placed a bid.

6) Your chances of selling your items will be increased if you expand your market beyond your city and mail your items to people in different states. Also research similar items sold on ebay and price your item accordingly - "to sell".   I like placing a "Buy Now" price on my listings (if I'm confident in the value) because many people don't like waiting a week for the auction to end.  If you set a good buy now price, many times someone will take it.