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Registration is required in order to buy or sell on eBay. As a registered eBay member, you can shop on eBay and participate in the world's largest online community of buyers and sellers.

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1. Supply User Information & Agree to Terms
We start by asking you for basic contact information. This is to verify your identity so others can be confident in dealing with you just as you can be confident in the other person's identity. Your personal information always remains private on eBay's secure servers.

You will also need to accept the terms outlines in the User Agreement and Privacy Policy in order to buy and sell on eBay. The User Agreement spells out the relationship between you and eBay and the Privacy Policy is our assurance to you that your information will remain private. In addition to this, y ou must be 18 years of age to register on eBay.

2. Create Your User ID and Password
The second step involves choosing your eBay identity…how other users will know you. Choose from the automatically generated User ID's provided, or create one that reflects something unique about you - but please do not use your email address.

3. Email Confirmation Message
After supplying your basic contact information, eBay will send you an email confirmation message to make sure that you correctly entered your email address in Step 1. This is important because email is the primary means of communication between buyers and sellers. Simply follow the instructions within the message to confirm your eBay registration.


Where did eBay come from? The idea for eBay came from a conversation between Pierre Omidyar and his fiancée, an avid Pez™ collector. She thought it would be neat to find dispensers and meet other collectors over the Internet. Realizing that people needed a central, safe location to buy and sell unique items, Pierre founded and launched eBay on Labor Day in 1995.
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