Auction Power Guide

I am new to selling on ebay.
There is a section where it says "Shipping Destination Service."
The item I am selling is a simple trading card, which I will be sending in a regular, letter-sized envelope, that I just put stamps on and just put in the mailbox and let it be picked up.
So, which shipping service am I supposed to select?

You can ship any way you want. For something that small I would use the US postal service. Put a stamp or two on it, and have it insured, and then mail it. The insurance will be based on the value of the card, but it’s never that much. Good luck.

I’m planning on opening an ebay shop, if there were any refunds made through debit or credit card, how can I get the money back to the customer, same with paypal. Should I go on internet banking and refund the money back from that or is it more complicated than that?

For 60 days, Paypal has a refund button on each transaction. You click on it and indicate how much money should go back to the buyer and Paypal reverses that amount–including the reveral of the fees they charged you in the first place.

If you make a mistake, you should pay shipping both ways.
If they made a mistake, they pay for shipping.

BTW, don’t bother with a "shop" unless you have a 1000 items to list. While the listing fees go down (sort of, eBay has lots of sales), you pay extra for Final Value Fees *and* disappear from most searches. Store inventory only shows up on very narrow searches when less than 20 items come back from non-store listings.

The eBay stores that success are book sellers, stamps, china, crystal and silver. Items where people looking for the item type in the exact search description.

Is there any way to gauge the value of coins, stamps or paintings at auctions? There was no one who could tell me. What’s a good bet of finding something that really valuable at an auction. Any books? Any magazines or websites?

Pick a product you like and can afford. Go to the library or on the internet to get more information about the product. Attend auction previews without bidding. Without years of experience you won’t know what is real or fake, and what the values are if you bid on many different types of things. Experienced bidders look the item over, determine a high bid, and don’t go higher.