Checking Out

When you buy something in a store, you need to check out to pay. eBay isn’t much different. eBay’s Checkout is a convenient way to pay for your completed auctions, fixed-price sales, and Buy It Now sales with a credit card or eCheck through PayPal. You may also use Checkout to exchange your information with the seller and pay for your item at a place other than PayPal (such as by money order, check, or another payment service that the seller accepts).

Checkout is integrated directly onto the item page so that you can win and pay for an item in less than a minute. You may also be forwarded to a link to the seller’s checkout page. When an auction is over, the item page will have checkout information, as shown in Figure 8-2.