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Selling Digital Items

Would you like to sell digital files (such as Adobe PDF files) or information (such as a “Word of the Day”) that buyers can access online or have delivered electronically? If so, eBay enables you to list and these kinds of items.

Requirements

To sell a digital item on eBay, you must comply with the following requirements:

  • Digitally delivered items must be listed in the Classified Ad Format in the Everything Else>Information Products category only.

  • Any digitally delivered item may not be pornographic in nature.

  • The seller must be the owner of the underlying intellectual property, or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner.

  • The seller’s item may not include software that harms the buyer’s machine (for example, a virus), uses it for malicious or unauthorized purposes (for example, sending spam emails or spreading a virus), or violates the buyer’s privacy (for example, spyware or cookies per the HTML and JavaScript policy).

  • To help verify the identity of sellers listing digital downloadable items, eBay requires that sellers are PayPal Verified.

In addition, you’ll need to verify that you are legally authorized to sell the digital item when you list it.


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