EBay is a great source for better used, second hand and antique furniture, where people find anything from new or used, the beauty of EBay for buyer is some of Item offer free shipping or free tax means you will have extra saving money on return. If you ever been here why not try with some tips.

1. Build a Positive Feedback Rating

Give and get good feedback. This is less critical for buyers than for sellers, but having a good feedback rating makes other eBayers comfortable doing business with you.

2. How to build feedback quickly?

Here is a quick way to build good feedback: Sell something at a very low price, such as an inexpensive baseball card for under a dollar. Put up a Dutch auction for 50 of the item you are selling. Don't worry about making money; just try to break even. Mail the cards out quickly, post great feedback for each buyer and send each buyer an email politely asking each of them to return the favor.

3. be generous with your feedback

Post feedback quickly and leave specific comments. Leaving a comment that says: "great seller," is nice –but it is more helpful to say, "Item arrived quickly in perfect condition, just as described."

4. Get and stay organized

It is easy to make mistakes when you are not organized. Forgetting to make a payment or shipping an item late can earn you negative feedback.

• Organize your workspace
• Keep good records
• Set up separate email folders for your eBay correspondence
• Check your email daily

5. Use PayPal

Sellers want to be paid quickly and everyone is concerned about fraud. There is no faster or safer way to complete an eBay transaction than PayPal (now owned by eBay). PayPal is now used by over 28 Million users around the world. Over 80% of registered eBay users accept PayPal and eBay is fast integrating PayPal into their systems. Take the time to become a verified seller and always give your verified shipping address.

6. Pay sellers quickly

Paying quickly will help you build feedback faster and you will get your item faster.

7. be honest –admit your mistakes

If you forgot about the auction and are late getting a payment off or you forgot to ship something you sold – be up front and honest. Apologize and admit your mistake.

8. Create an About Me page on eBay

EBay allows you to create a page to describe you and your business (if you are a seller). You can put a photo on the page, talk about your hobbies, your family – basically anything you like.

9. Be sure to thank people

Send a thank-you note email with your receipt to your customer when they pay. Include your eBay user name and ask them to contact you if there is any problem. Ask them to leave feedback in your email and include a convenient link to the leave-feedback URL. 

10. Use the .02 or .03 rule.

Most people bid in even numbers. If the bid increment is 50 cents, make your bid .52 or .53. This way you will just outbid someone by a few cents instead of a large increment. This is very important when sniping (see next item)

11. Learn to snipe

EBay’s proxy bidding system allows you to set your highest bid and then forget about it. EBay will keep bidding the minimum increment up to your maximum. This is fine if you know exactly how much you want to pay for something. If you are not sure how much you want to bid or if you know an item will be hot, and then learn how to snipe at the last minute.

Here is how to snipe:

Open one window with the auction description. Open a second window and place the highest amount you will pay for the item and hit "Review Bid." Now enter your username and password –but don't hit "Place Bid" yet. Wait until 15 or 20 seconds before the auction ends. (Refresh your first window to see the time left). At the right moment, hit "Place Bid." With luck your bid will arrive at the perfect time to beat out your competition.

Be sure to synchronize your time with the official eBay time or your could just miss the end of an auction.

12. Use Ending Today

When searching eBay listings and categories, it can become very tiresome because there is so much out there. If you're just browsing for stuff to buy, then select a category, and select Ending Today. Items ending in the next 24 hours will be highlighted in red.

13. Search Completed items

To find out what a product is selling for, it doesn't do any good to find prices for on-going auctions as this could change minute by minute. Searching Completed Items (from the eBay search box) is the best way to determine an item's worth or value.

14. Check the seller's feedback rating

Because you are spending your hard-earned money, it pays to check the feedback left by others about the person from whom you're thinking of buying. When in an item's auction page, select "view seller's feedback."

This will list all comments made by others that have dealt with this person in the past. It can be very revealing. If you see a bunch of negative comments, stay away from this seller. If you see positive, then proceed. Don't let one or two negatives dissuade you if most of the feedback is positive. Everyone makes mistakes, and things do get lost in the mail. Also there are some people out there who are very difficult to please.

15. Be careful about leaving negative feedback

You should always try and work things out with the seller. If a seller is a total fraud, then go ahead and leave negative feedback. Remember you want to be a seller and need positive feedback yourself.

16. Check your email at least twice daily

As a buyer, you want to ensure you win the most bids you can– within your price range, of course. Since eBay will email you whenever you're outbid on an item for which you have an outstanding bid, you want to be sure you know as soon as possible, so you can re-bid if you want to. If you don't check your email, and you receive an outbid notice, by the time you do check email, the auction may be over for that item. Checking your email regularly will keep you informed of the status of your bids.

Also you want to respond quickly to any emails from buyers or sellers relating to your bids or your auctions.

17. How to narrow your search?

Since using a single word for your search can return many, many ads, you may want to narrow the search even more to get down to a more specific need. For example, suppose you are looking specifically for Timex watches as opposed to just any watches. Then use the AND keyword in your search. In the search field, you'd enter Timex and watch. This would return a list of all ads with both the words Timex and watch in them and exclude all ads that do not contain both words.

18. How to narrow your search even more?

Let's say you are looking for ads that include certain phrases or words that go together in a specific order. For instance, if you are searching for teddy bears, you can use quotation marks. The command you would use is "teddy bear". This will return a listing of all ads with the words teddy bear in them.

19. Finding auctions with multiple words

If you are searching for items that have one of multiple words, you can use the OR keyword in your search. For example, if you wanted to find all auctions that have in their title listing the words cat or dog, then you would enter cat or dog in the search field. This would return all ads that have either the word cat or the word dog in their listing.

20. Locating auctions with one word, but not another.

If you are looking for watches, but are not interested in Timex watches then you would use the AND NOT keywords. In the search field, you would enter: watch and not Timex. This would return all auctions whose listings included the word watch, but excluded the word Timex.

21. Using wildcards in your search

A wildcard is the symbol * (the asterisk). This will allow you to obtain listings of ads that include variations of a word or number. For instance, if you wanted to find all ads for any items made in the 1970's with the year in the title field, then you'd enter 197* in the search field. This would return all ads with any year in the 1970's in the listing.

22. Use a SPAM filter

Unfortunately once you start buying and selling on eBay, your email gets out there and your volume of spam increases. There are also new services available on the Internet to filter out spam – but they are not 100% reliable. They sometimes filter out legitimate messages and still let a lot of spam through. Also remember never post your email address on your eBay page. Spammers love this and they will pray on it.

23. Know what you are buying

Unless the item you are bidding on is clear and unambiguous, be a little careful. If a description is not complete or if you are buying a collectible or something used, take the time to email the seller and ask questions or for clarification. If the seller doesn't answer quickly and completely, that is a warning flag and you should be careful.