How to shop successfully on e-bay!

1. Living in a country where most people belong to the SECC (Socio Economic Class-
C), buying designer products is out of the reach of most citizens. This is where
online shopping sites come in handy and no site has more influence on shopping
habits and online users than the famous e-bay. The site has a plethora of
products on offers, from infant toys to classic cars. While every need of the
buyer is satisfied, issues arise when the product is finally gets delivered at
your place; what you ordered might just not be the thing you desired or paid
for. To eradicate such issues, the following steps should always be followed
while you browse products on e-bay.
To know about the reliability and authenticity of the advertiser should be the
priority. Whenever you browse for items on e-bay, make sure that the seller of
that particular item has a positive rating beside his name. The rating bar
appears on the left side and it provides a score out of hundred(100). The higher
the score the more reliable the seller is. One can also read comments about the
seller by the buyers about his previous products. People can also search for
power seller who are considered to be amongst the top sellers on e-bay. Beware
of the sellers who express the information about their products in an amateur
writing style like teenagers. In addition, an authentic seller never misspells
like genes instead of jeans.
Second step should always be to check the repetition of the same product under
the search result link. For instance, if you are trying to search PS3(Play-
station 3) and hundreds of search results come up, amongst those results a lot
of repetition of the same product shows up. So it hints that either the seller
is selling fakes or faulty items or has accumulated these goods under suspicious
circumstances because there is no way that an authentic seller can possess
dozens of PS3.
Asking relevant questions for a product which has no description is another
important step. The question should also be to double check the seller s
credibility. Questions may be about the condition of the product, source of the
acquisition of the product, purchase price, and purchase date of the product and
place from where it was bought. If a seller of PS3 says that he bought it for
35000 and got only one controller, it hints that he might have bought used
console as the new one comes with two original controllers.
Checking the picture of the product also plays a vital role. The quality of the
picture helps determining whether the seller s product is in good condition or
not. If the seller has set the picture of his PS3 with his camera, it normally
means that the product is in good condition and if the picture has been put up
from a certain site then you should revert to the previous step of asking
relevant questions regarding the authenticity of the product.
Final step is to check the price of the product. If the seller is selling his
PS3 for 15000pkr, instead of getting all jumpy over the price and ordering it in
the heartbeat, one should always keep the current market value in mind.
Considering that the original PS3 costs around 35000-40000 pkr, The console,
that the seller is offering for 15000pkr., might have develop severe fault or it
might be stolen.
Thus, considering the aforementioned steps, one can avoid fraud or buying faulty
or stolen products from e-bay.