Week 3 Checkpoint / Ebay

EBay is one of the largest E-tailers on the internet. I am personally an EBay addict, not going to lie. EBay works like this, First you set up an account with them for the most part EBay Sellers want you to use PayPal as a secure form of payment. So you need to set up that account as well, when you have your accounts set up you is ready to buy and sell. When selling, EBay takes a percentage of the money made and takes that as a charge for you selling your things. When buying, you just purchase with your PayPal. Once payment is received by the seller the product is shipped. The disadvantages to using EBay are the security of it; you sell to the highest bidder and try to get the lowest price when shopping. If someone were to hack the mainframe Server tons of people would have loss of money, identity, and product. Advantages would be the fact that EBay is a great way to shop and sell. The fact that the payment is separated from the actual EBay site itself is good; it serves as better security to protect buyers and sellers. One other disadvantage to EBay is the program itself to selling items. The site is very non-user friendly, meaning, it is very hard to use. It could use some improvements in this area, to simplify the site and the selling products site. I do have an etail business, I do not have eBay because I believe it is more for Electronics and Cars, I sell crafts. I use a site designed around homemade arts called, Etsy. It is a lot cheaper as well as user friendly.