Expert: Marvinator - 5/1/2004

Question
HOW DO YOU USE PAY PAL AND BUY NOW?

Answer
This is a very broad question, but not impossible to answer.

First, let me offer a few suggestions in your communications which may help you in the future.  Using all capital letters is considered 'shouting' when posting in forums etc.  If you can't use the alternating Caps and lower case, use ALL lower case and let the punctuation lay out your thoughts.  

Paypal is an online money transfer agent.  You set up an account (www.paypal.com) using your email address and attaching it to a credit card or bank account.  Then you can send money to someone using their email address and they can send to you using yours.  Always double check an email address when sending, because the system is very particular.  johndow123@usa.net is NOT the same address as johndoe123@usa.net.  One letter off, or mistyped and the money sits in a blank account or worse, goes to someone unknown.  In this latter case, you may have trouble getting the money back - always type carefully.

Visit Paypal.com and learn all about it. Read all their information and instructions carefully.  If you like having things to refer to, you can even print out their instructions and refer to them later.

Buy Now or "Buy-It-Now" is a feature of Ebay which allows you to purchase something immediately rather than waiting until the end of an auction.  

As a buyer, you can merely click the Buy-It-Now button and you're done! Simple.   As a seller, you can add the Buy-It-Now option to your auction for a mere 5¢.  When the Buy-It-Now option is chosen, it will be visible along side the BID button until someone clicks on either one.  

If a person click on the BIN (Buy-It-Now) Button, the auction ends and they own the item.  If they click on the BID Button, they enter a bid.  When a BID is entered, the BIN disappears or becomes inoperable.  This keeps someone from buying an item out from under an honest bidder.

I hope this answers your question.  Please feel free to return and ask any more questions you may have.