what do i truly have to do to buy things on e bay?

You have to make an account and set up a PayPal system. Then you can bid and sell items on-line.

All you need to do to buy things on eBay is a willingness to browse through auction listings, a regular eBay buyers account and a Paypal account to pay for the items you buy.

Personally I don't like getting into bidding wars with people for items on eBay. I'll either search out items I want who offer a Buy it Now option, or I snipe auctions. What is that you say?

Snipe auctions.

You see most people who buy on eBay, do so by manually sitting in front of their computers and place bids on the items they have a interest in. Say the auction listing runs for 7 days. Some people will place a bid the first day and not look at it again until 3 days have past and them again on the last day to see where they are as far as bids are concerned. Other people will check auctions on a daily basis. And on the day the auction ends, they are right there in front of their computers again, manually fighting it out with somebody who might be clear across the country bidding on the same item. The last seconds tick off the clock and they are hoping they got to place the last bid to win the auction. Some people like that stuff.

I don't.

Like I said I snipe auctions to make sure I get the the item I want.

Here's what I do. I go to either Goofbay.com or Hammersnipe.com and use their FREE sniping service. Here's how it works. Say there's a 7 day auction for an iPhone. I log into my Hammersnipe account and enter the ebay auction listing ID for the iPhone. I insert a bid I believe will win the iPhone. I check off a box that says "bid will be placed 3-5 seconds before auction ends" and I'm done. Now I go off and do other things and I don't come back to the auction until that 7th day just to see how it's going. And 99% of the time, I end up winning that auction.

So THAT"S what you truly have to do to WIN and buy things on eBay.

PayPal a must add a bank debit card and i recommend opening an eBay credit card sometimes you pay with card and resell then get money back and pay card but yet you made more money.... that's how I do it...

in many cases, you'll also need to have 25 positive feedback points to be able to buy anything you want