1.We will assume that you are not registered on eBay as yet. Taking this into consideration, you will first go to eBay's signup page.

2.After you have signed up, login to eBay and click on "sell". This can be found at the top of the page, or in the navigation menu if you are in "my eBay"

3.You'll be asked to enter a keyword related to the item you are selling. This is EBay's way of helping you to find the appropriate category. If you would rather go through and choose your own category, simply click on the select category tab.

4.After selecting the category, you will be asked to enter the title and description. You should be very detailed in your title and your description. This will help those searching to find your product. You should always include a photograph. It boosts sales dramatically.

5.Continue to follow on-screen instructions. The screen will direct you to do things such as entering the starting price, etc.

6.You will be asked to enter whether or not you would like to feature the item on a given category, or even on the home page, if you would like to include a gallery photo, etc.

7.After you have completed the form, eBay will give you an opportunity to look the listing over, to check that everything is correct. After you are satisfied with the listing, click the submit button and your auction will be queued for listing, but you aren't done yet!

There are other things you should know. When you first begin selling on eBay, you will be "unknown". You may be wondering "how do I get Known?" eBay has devised a simple way for other users to rate their experience with you. This is known as "feedback". Your feedback accumulates both as a buyer and a seller. This gives you a total score based on feedback as given by others to you. There are three types of feedback. The transaction that was good will result in a positive feedback. From time to time, a buyer may not necessarily be happy with the product received, but may not have a problem with you. This will result in a neutral feedback rating for that transaction. Still other times may occur when a buyer (or a seller) just did not like anything at all about the transaction. He leaves a negative feedback for the transaction which will take away a point from your total feedback. Your overall feedback is still visible to a potential buyer, but that out front will reflect only the current number. Each potential buyer is also able to view the feedback so they can try to find out why a negative was given.

Obviously, the higher your feedback rating, the better the price you will realize on your items, so it's in your best interest to make sure you do your very best to keep all feedback positive.

We hope this article on how to sell on eBay was helpful to you, and gets you started on the proper path to setting up shop and selling your merchandise on eBay.