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If you want to sell on eBay, it is important for you to register first and choose a username or userID. Your user ID is as important as your password. You need to provide a user ID that is easy for you to remember, easy to type in because you will be using it every time you open your ebay account. Ebay requires short words as your user ID and you can use underscores or hyphens to separate them. EBay doesn’t allow spaces in user IDs, so make sure that the ID makes sense when putting two or more words together. More often, people use their own name, nicknames as their user ID’s.

You can change your user ID once every 30 days if you want to, but I don’t recommend it because people come to know you by your user ID. If you change your ID, your past does play tagalong and attaches itself to the new ID. But if you change your user ID too many times, people may think you’re trying to hide something.

Nevertheless, to change your user ID, click the My eBay link, which appears at the top of most eBay pages. From your My eBay Summary page, click the My Account: Personal Information link, scroll to the User ID area, and click the Change link. Fill in the boxes, and then click the Change User ID button. You now have a new eBay identity. eBay also has some user ID rules to live by:

? No offensive names

? No names with eBay in them. (It makes you look like you work for eBay, and eBay takes a dim view of that.)

? No names with & (even if you do have both looks&brains).

? No special characters allowed such as (&,$#%()<>,.:;”’?/).

? No symbols, consecutive underscores (__).

? No IDs that begin with an e followed by numbers, an underscore, a hyphen, a period, or dot (as in dot.com). Number is allowed only at the end of the user ID.

? No names of one letter (such as Q from Star Trek).

When you choose your user ID, make sure that it isn’t a good clue for your password. It is not offensive and does not contain words that draws back buyer’s interest.