How to Protect Your eBay Selling Account

If you are an eBay seller you will always be worried about the safety of your account. The eventual consequences could be one of the devastating experiences to ever happen to you. It could mar your reputation you built brick by brick over time.

Tips on How to Protect your eBay Account

If you already suspect your account’s security, or someone else has accessed your account check with your colleagues and family as to whether they had done so. Here are more tips and steps for you.

1. There are spoof websites that deceive with identical designs and collect your login name and password. Always type in the full name into the address box of your browser yourself.

2. While registering, take care to choose user name and password after much thought. Let them not be pet names of your kin or self so that they aren’t easily guessed by others. Also choose dissimilar IDs for email accounts and eBay. Password is hard cracked when it is a combination of letters and numbers. Further, conjoining 2-3 words and numbers would be better. For example, ‘SpiceJetCowBoy864’.

3. Keep changing your password frequently. Select secret questions for which only you know the answer. Choosing your mother’s maiden name would be naïve.

4. Beware, using pet name, spouse name could be easily broken by any small time hacker.

5. eBay or its staff will never ask for your user name and/or password for any reason. But there could be fake emails or websites asking for them. Never will eBay ask for your bank and credit card information. Just ignoring them could still encourage them, so login to your account and report them to eBay customer care.

6. What if you can’t login at all? Immediately contact eBay and follow guidelines issued to you through email. You may need to change your password and answer a series of questions that relate to your account. But to change password you have to wait till further instructions from eBay. Change your password, secret question et.

7. Check for unauthorized bids or fees; you can either retract or end bidding and in the latter case request refund.

Get yourself educated through either forums or eBay customer care. Better be prepared than sorry.