If you want to sell or buy things online
through the ebay website you first have to go through the ebay registration
process. Ebay registration is a very simple process with easy to follow
instructions appearing on screen as you do it. However, at certain points
during ebay registration you will need some details or information that you
might not normally carry in your head or have immediately to hand. Also, you
will need to create new user ids and passwords as part of your ebay
registration. By reading the following information about ebay registration,
before you actually start the process, will help you to make sure that you can
complete the registration process without any interruptions.

Starting to register with ebay

Having loaded the ebay website into your web-browser the first thing to do is select the ‘register’ hyperlink that you’ll see near the top and left-hand side of the ebay Home Page. The first things you have to enter for your ebay registration are the usual personal details like your full name, address, telephone number and an email address that you will use to communicate with ebay. As soon as that’s done you have to decide what your ebay user id and password are going to be. This is one of the things that you need to think about - before starting the ebay registration process. When you’ve completed the ebay registration process you can easily change your password. However, you can’t change your user id without creating a whole new ‘My ebay account’. So, spending some time before you start the ebay registration process should mean you decide on a user id that you’re happy with from the start. What to use for your user id is, of course, a matter of
personal preference. However, most people don’t use their actual names as an id; instead they use a nick-name or tag. Of course if your name is John or Joan Smith - and you like the tag ‘Smithy’ you’ll probably find hundreds of others do too and so you can’t have just ‘Smithy’; you’d probably end up using
something like ‘Smithy512’ or whatever. So do try and be original in your choice of ebay user id and, if you’re going to be a serious seller of a particular commodity, having a user id reflecting that commodity isn’t a bad idea. Ebay passwords have to be a combination of text and numeric characters, so thinking through what a good password will be is another good idea. Ebay will advise you how robust your password is but, if you’re not already aware, having a password that’s a combination of some text and numbers that are familiar to you, and to others you know, is not a good idea. Try and use a word that’s quite abstract to you and numbers that are quite random.  Having completed the basics of ebay registration you’ll be sent an email from them with a link to complete the registration process. Financial account information in your ebay registration

Having finalized your basic ebay registration you next need to tell ebay how you’re going to pay for items or collect payments. To pay for items you can register a credit card, to pay for
and collect payments you can either register a bank or savings account details
or elect to use PayPal. In this stage of ebay registration I would chose to use
PayPal as it’s an immediate method of payment and if, for any reason, there was
an issue over a payment - PayPal can help you resolve it. To register a PayPal
account with ebay you do, of course, have to have established a PayPal account
and have those details ready to enter into the ebay registration process. So,
if you haven’t already got a PayPal account, create one now before starting
your ebay registration. You’ll find that there are several levels at which you
can register with PayPal, Ordinary, Business and Premier; according to whether
you intend to buy or sell occasionally on ebay or if you intend to set up a
proper ‘ebay businesses.