E-Bay has sites registered in many different countries. Your first step should be to sign up with the e-bay site for the country in which you reside. As an example, Americans should sign up with eBay.com, and Australians with eBay.com.au.

In order to get started setting up your e-Bay account, you must first visit the e-Bay website pertinent to your country. Take note of the menu options provided at the top right hand corner, including Buy, Sell, My eBay, Community and Help. These options will be handy later on.

You will see the eBay logo as well as the Welcome! Sign In or Register button on the left side in the top corner. You should click this button to join. This will bring you to the registration page.

The registration process will walk you through step by step in creating your eBay account. Certain information like name, home address and e-mail address are essential for doing business on eBay and as such are requested on this page.

Next, you will be prompted to create a username and password for your account on eBay. This is so that your personalized information can be recorded and tracked for ease of use on the site. So, be creative in your Username. If you are using eBay for only personal use or you want to sell products through this forum as an affiliate, relating your user ID to whatever you are promoting would certainly be a good idea. And, of course, if you want to connect your eBay account to an existing brick and mortar business keep this in mind when creating your User ID.

Of course, if you are only using this site for your personal hobby or entertainment any easy to remember ID will do. Please ensure that you are only utilizing names that are non-offensive and respectful. If you do plan on incorporating your hobby into a business venture eventually, please keep this in mind. I mean, how many people will take PrincessFiona99 seriously? So, common sense and a little foresight are integral to the success of any fledgling eBay endeavor.

Your next step is to choose a password. The best choice is a non-personal password that is not easily guessed. Including both letters and numbers makes your password more secure. Although e-Bay is a secure site, it is always best to choose passwords that are not easy to hack.

Finally, as an information retrieval method in case you forget or lose your User Name and/or Password, you will be prompted to choose several security questions. When choosing questions it is imperative to have only one definite answer. Utilizing this tip will assist you in your User ID/Password retrieval. Ultimately, the key is to pick questions that have concrete and solo answers so as not to lose your account details forever.

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