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eBay Stores can offer the internet shopper a variety of products and selection with the ease and security of shopping on eBay. With a shopping experience similar to any shopping website domain, eBay stores can be a breeze to navigate and with Paypal checkout payment services and the option of money order payment, makes payment and shipping easy too.

With easy to search listings and pay now options, these eBay Store sites have the look and feel of any online shopping website. Some eBay Stores feature one type of product as their speciality with a huge selection of products and hundreds of models to choose from, most brand new and in the box. The basic eBay store has a Store Home Page and several pages of listings with store categories to choose from on the left side navigation to help to search for the right product.

The more advanced eBay store has obtained Powerseller status and features a home page, several pages of listings with a variety of different office supplies and several Custom Pages such as Store Policies detail, FAQ page and feedback information. The more advanced the store design and category pages, with a return policy and customer support by phone or email the more desired to purchase from. It is easier to make your purchase and trust the security of payment processing with the knowledge that you are buying from someone who provides great customer service and a quality product.

Make sure that before you make your purchase you have shopped around at the various eBay stores. These stores can offer the same exact items and are sometimes very competitive in pricing and just as in normal online comparison pricing, can save you money if you spend your time searching. In order to search eBay store listings only, it is as easy as logging on to the eBay Home page and using the left hand navigation bar to click on eBay Stores category and enter your keywords to find the right item. Using these eBay stores, an online shopper can truly save time and money and get just what is wanted.

Amy Lieberfarb has been in the office furniture and interior sales industry for 11 years and currently runs two online websites dedicated to Office Chairs and Furniture. Providing information on how to pick the right ergonomic chair and featuring hundreds of different chairs, the site is very informative.

http://stores.ebay.com/liebswholesale

Specializing in Office Furniture and Ergonomic Chairs.

http://www.liebswholesale.com

She is an expert in most things office chairs and is an eBay Powerseller with years of experience and great positive feedback from all of her loyal customer base.

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Online ecommerce is growing rapidly, and with that is the growing opportunity for fraud and scams. As Internet users, it is our responsibility to take some precautions that will make our online transactions safer.

One area we need to take responsibility for is protecting our online payment information. Online payment providers have come and gone, but one of them, Paypal, has been around for a while and has become the target of scammers. While this may be alarming, there are actually some very simple steps you can take to keep your Paypal account safe from scammers.

1. Never Click on Any of the Links Listed in a ‘Paypal’ Email

No matter how official the email you get from Paypal looks, never click on any of the links in the email. Instead of clicking on the links, open up a browser window, and type in paypal.com to go directly to their site from you browser. As a rule of thumb, only log into the paypal site if you type in the address into the address bar of the browser yourself.

If you get an email that seems official, but looks suspicious, then forward the email to spoof(at)paypal.com where they will be able to tell you if it was a valid email from them or not. To avoid confusion, Paypal will usually never send you an email telling you to log into their site from a link in their email.

2. How to Tell if the Email is Legitimate

If you get an email from Paypal telling you that your account has closed or some other urgent matter, there are things you can look at that will give you a good idea if the email is legitimate or not.

The way to do this is to select the menu selection in your mail program that allows you to look at the source code for the email. Locate the link (just search the page for the link text that sends you to Paypal of the link and you should find the link).

The link should look something like the following:

< a href='http: // {urladdress}'> {link text you just searched for}< / a >

here is an example format of a spoofed link..

http:// ipox.xx.com.my/xxxxxx/paypal.com/xxxxx

Notice that the domain name is actually ‘ipox.xx.com.my’. You can see a paypal.com in the line, but that is actually the name of a directory in ‘ipox.xx.com.my’. If you click the link in the email, your browser will actually go to ‘ipox.xx.com.my’, which will be a very official looking Paypal page, but will not have any association with Paypal whatsoever. Users will think that they are at paypal because they see a paypal.com in the URL in their address bar, and they see the Paypal login page, but they couldn’t be more wrong!

These poor unsuspecting users will type in their username and password and will get a message such as the site is down for maintenance or some other fake message about why they can’t see their account information. At this point it is too late. They have given a phisher (scammer) their real username and password.

3. What Do Some of the Spam Messages Look Like?

These artificial phishing (scamming) messages come in many forms. One form is the typical ‘Your account is going to be deleted if you don’t log in right away’. Another message looks something like, ‘We have seen unusual activity on your account and it has been suspended’. Yet another message, and this style seems to be newer, is “Receipt of your payment to SOMECOMPANYNAME”.

If you will notice that all of these messages get to the heart of human behavioral responses and put us immediately into an emotional state where we are less likely to use are intellect and just immediately react to the message. If we imprint tip #1 into our brains, which is never click on any of the links in an email that looks like it comes from Paypal, we can help to overcome this reaction whenever these or other messages appear.

4. What to Do If You Entered Your Paypal Account Information into One of These Phishing Sites.

If you got caught up in the emotion and entered your Paypal information before you realized it was a fake scam site, you should immediately go to Paypal.com, log in and change your password. You should also monitor your account for any unauthorized activity. Should you see any activity, immediately fill out the ‘unauthorized activity form’ found in the ‘Protection Policies’ section of the help center on the website.

If you are really feeling vulnerable, call the support desk and immediately report the incident to a support specialist.

We can make our online Paypal transactions safer by using the tips listed. While there are certainly many exceptions, many of these online fraud situations occur from mistakes on the part of the user, and not the payment processing company, or merchant. Online safety 101 should be a mandatory class for anyone entering the Internet world today, however using a good dose of common sense will take you quite far.

Copyright 2006 B Hopkins

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To conduct business on the Internet, whether informal, one-time only transactions between two friends, or a full-fledged business selling products or services, payment arrangements have to be made. Before 1998, this often meant either checks sent through snail-mail, or very expensive, and often hard-to-obtain, merchant accounts for online credit card processing. In 1998, PayPal was introduced to fill the payment processing gap.

PayPal now has about 50 million members, but was originally introduced to provide a payment processing service for online auction buyers and sellers, in particular, eBay. Since then, PayPal has grown into the premier third-party payment processing service. In fact, PayPal was so successful that eBay bought the company in 2002, replacing their own Billpoint service with the far superior PayPal service.

PayPal is free to join, although buyers are no longer required to join in order to pay for goods and services from seller members. Many people are still afraid to do business online, and won’t provide their credit card information. Scams certainly abound in cyberspace, but PayPal is a solid, reputable company, and there is little to fear.

For sellers, PayPal offers much lower processing fees than many other third-party processors. PayPal rates are not much higher than those of merchant account processors, and there are no ongoing fees. You only pay PayPal fees when you make a sale. It is also much easier and faster to set up a PayPal account than a merchant account. Some sellers complain of unjustly frozen PayPal accounts, and as with most any service, there are plenty of horror stories surrounding other PayPal actions. However, many more buyers and sellers have used PayPal from the beginning with no problem at all.

PayPal offers transfer of funds to and from a PayPal account through e-checks, debit and credit cards, and instant transfer from other members’ accounts. They offer debit cards to allow you to make purchases against your account balance, just as you would with a bank debit card, a money-market interest rate on the balances in some accounts, seller and buyer protection services, invoicing, recurring billing, shopping cart, and many other tools that online merchants may need.

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Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.sitetube.com. Visit his website for the latest on planning, building, promoting and maintaining websites.

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