OT - Ebay stores?

The entering into a contract is standard lingo. When you click it, then you have committed to buy the item for a certain amount- the buy it now price. eBay cannot just take out the money- you would need to sign into PayPal with your password for them to get anything, so that's not a concern. Then just sit back and wait for the seller to email you- and he will. When he does, he should tell you the shipping amount. You can then go to PayPal (I NEVER use their links in their message- you hear so many stories about rip-off artists messing with fraudulent eBay and PayPal scams), sign into PayPal and pay for it or send your momney order or check directly to the seller. I've done it frequently. It's okay. The seller *wants* to sell his stuff, so they will happily handle it from the time you click to buy it.

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That is exactly what you need to do, but after you've done that, don't go to the page to pay, you'll either have several separate invoices, or a single one with postage combined incorrectly. Wait until you get an email saying you have an invoice and go back and pay, obviously checking it has been combined correctly. They give you the warning, because when doing "buy it now", most people expect to pay at that moment in time, when actually clicking that final button behaves just like if you are bidding and win, when you don't pay at that moment in time, because you don't know if you've won. If you are doing multiple auctions with the same person they usually combine postage too, so don't pay straight away then either.

Hi,

I buy from ebay stores and ebay all the time. With eacvh item you purchase it allows you the option to pay now, but does not require it. Just keep buying now until you are done. When you are done you can either message the seeler for the invoice, or wait for them to send it to you. In either case, the invoice will have a pay now link as well, which will be all the items purchsed, as well as shipping. Pay pal is connected through ebay, and if you use paypal to pay, ebay will register all items as paid. The commit to buy button takes the item "off the shelf" so to speek, so no one else can buy it. But payment is not required at that point. I personally pay as soon as I get a total as I would forget otherwise loo, but most places state within 3 days of purchase. Because I am in Canada, I almost always have to wait for the invoice because of shipping. I hopew that helps, but if you want to ask other stuff, remove the nospam from my email :)

Carissa

Buying from eBay is fun. But here is something to be very aware of:

As soon as you start bidding on auctions and using Paypal, you will begin to get phising emails. These will claim to be from eBay or from Paypal and will ask you to click on the link in the message to ... correct something, help them keep frauds from using your account, whatever. Don't be frightened by the message into clicking on the link. These people are crooks. Contact eBay by going to

Contact Paypal by going to It's the only safe way. Links in emails are not safe, you have no idea where they're taking you or what information they are making available to some 15 year old hacker with a taste for online p*rn and skateboards.

Sunny

Wow. Thanks for all the replies. It sounds so simple now that you all have explained it to me

/slaps head

Thanks again. I knew I could find help here!

The phishing e-mails have nothing to do with whether you have bought from an on-line auction or used PayPal. I get phishing e-mails all the time sent to addresses that have never been used at all (the joys of owning two domains). It's just that if you've never used PayPal, you don't get worried about an e-mail telling you your PayPal account has been compromised and you need to send all your financial info to fix it. *grin*

Sunny made a good point. I just want to ad one. Just remember PayPal always uses your name NOT "Dear PayPal Member". Never open them.

Peace,

Marsha