A few questions about selling on ebay

Hi, I want to sell two or three items that I have in my house. I do not have a seller account yet because I have a little bit of fear and before I start to sell, I want some advice from people that have experience selling on ebay. First, I have a low feedback, does that means that I cannot sell because buyers will not trust me or I can sell with the current feedback score? Will I find any hidden fee? Will I have to pay a monthly bill on ebay or paypal even if I don’t sell anymore? Do I have to pay the listing fee before the listing goes live or after I successfully sell the item? What happens if I decide to deactivate or close de seller account (not the buyer account) and then I want to sell again? Will I have any penalty or limit if I reopen the seller account? Since I would sell two or three items, is not cost efficient to buy a scale. But the question is, can I bypass paypal or ebay shipping label, use the post office directly and submit the tracking number to ebay or paypal? The item that I want to sell is a CD and I want to list it with the “buy it now” option. Thanks for your response.|||You can ship at the Post Office, be sure you use delivery confirmation. You will be billed for your fees at the end of the month. You don't need to close the account when you are done selling as you won't rack up anymore fees if you aren't selling anything. I personally don't mind buying from sellers with low feedback, but I know some people are kind of nervous. One thing to be prepared for is with low feedback, paypal will likely hold your funds when you get paid. So have money available to ship the item, paypal will release the funds once you can prove the item has been delivered, so once again, very important that you use delivery confirmation.|||Do check completed listings for your CD. Some CD's do not sell well, and only realize a low price. It is a good item to start with though, as it is low priced. I have gathered a lot of links to help pages that I think will be good reading for you. Click on the blue/red me below.~ Lucy ~ Guide to eBay Board AcronymsClick on for links to Help Pages for a new eBayer|||Thanks for the tips. As for the CD, I did a search on completed listings and found that has a high value, around 40+.|||Way cool! Good luck!~ Lucy ~ Guide to eBay Board AcronymsClick on for links to Help Pages for a new eBayer|||Low feedback does not really matter. You will have to use Paypal and they will hold your funds for 21 days so be sure to have shipping money. You will have a listing fee then when your item sells you will have a final value fee as well. Go to the HELP section top right and type in "selling fees" when the page opens. You will also pay a fee to Paypal of 2.9% plus .30 cents. You won't have a monthly fee but the fees for Ebay are paid once a month. If you only sell these few items then nothing again you will not incur any more fees. No Penalties and no need to close the account. Yes, you can use usps. IF you use them online, delivery confirmation is free. You have to get delivery confirmation to be protected so please do. Good luck!Need a website fast?|||Be aware because you have no previous track record for selling, the buyer's payment will be HELD for the Paypal 21 day policy. This means once your buyer pays via Paypal, Paypal holds the payment until one of the following happens. You provide Paypal with the delivery confirmation number proving delivery to the buyer. OR the buyer leaves positive feedback for the transaction OR the 21 days have expired. During the Paypal 21 day hold, you are expected to front the money for S&H and ship. Good luck Paypal 21 day hold link Link Link Link|||Ebay Core fees Link|||Everyone has given you excellent and accurate advice here so I won't duplicate it, except to say: 1. You don't have to open an Ebay Store to sell. You pay a monthly fee if you have an Ebay Store and you don't get the free .99 cent listings. To sell a few items now and then you do not need to incur that cost, or have "turbo lister" or "activa" or any of that other stuff. Just click the "Start Selling" button and go... 2. Keep your listings simple and 100% accurate. Take 1 good photo. For a CD I don't think you need more than that. The first pix is free. 3. Open the auction that sold the same CD for $40 that you want to sell. If ALL of the particulars are exactly the same (new, sealed, same release date, etc., ) click on the bids link just under the price. Note at what price they started their auction at and use that as a guideline. Also note what they charged for shipping and the method they used. Mimick what works. 4. I ship by printing my label through PayPal for domestic shipping and Stamps.com for International. Both are free and offer shipping discounts. I have read that Delivery Confirmation is 95cents at the Postal Counter. I do not know if that is accurate as when I print my PayPal label I get DC for 19 cents. So find out because it is these types of costs that KILL your bottom line. 5. Yes, you can add tracking/delivery confirmation after you get it from the post office. Your CD should weigh about the same as everyone elses and no reason you can't save some money and ship using Media Mail. Much cheaper rates. Just be sure to pack well so no damage to the case...which means you should use a bubble wrapper or two. 6. Decide if you want to sell Internationally and read up on how beforehand. Decide what countries you will ship to, if you do. Set up your "Seller Preferences" accordingly in your "Account" page. It will walk you through it. Don't allow buyers to be able to edit your invoice, for example! Just click on all of those links and read up on what they mean. It's a little more complicated to sell on Ebay than it was years ago. If you do not want to ship internationally, it is not good enough to just say so in your ad. You need to block or exclude bidders from other countries in your Seller Preferences. Otherwise you run the risk of someone from China winning your auction because they didn't read your ad entirely...or thought it wouldn't matter. It is not hard to ship Internationally, just decide if you want to. To the other posters.... will PayPal still hold her funds for 21 days if she upgrades her PayPal account to a Premium or Business Account? Lastly, are you PayPal verified?|||.... will PayPal still hold her funds for 21 days if she upgrades her PayPal account to a Premium or Business Account? Lastly, are you PayPal verified? Yes and she will have to upgrade to one of those anyway to accept ebay payments Why do use stamps.com for international labels-international; priority/express labels are available thru ppIt may not be your fault but it is your responsibility Silver rule "do not do to others what you would not like to be done to you"|||Thanks to all for the fast response. I do have a verified and confirmed paypal account. I saw some fees that paypal has and I am confuse. Paypal say "Our fees are now the same for all accounts - Personal, Premier, and Business" does that mean that I dont have to upgrade to premier? Also, to lallaw and misfitfun, I am man, haha. Again, thanks for all the advice. A few more things to do and I'll be closer to sell that CD.|||Also, any way to edit posts? Because I have some typos.|||||||||