Ebay is the biggest online auction site in the world. It has a number of sites ranging across the globe from Ebay India, to UK, US, Germany, Canada and a host of others. To use the site in your area you need to sign up for it. You will also need a current credit or debit card, or bank account details if you want to sell on the site. To buy, you will require a Paypal Account available free of charge at http://www.paypal.co.uk . Paypal offers you some protection as a buyer.

Buying is slightly easier. You simply click to buy and make your bid. If it is highest at the end of the auction time which is shown on screen, you win. You will have chances to increase your bid if you wish. Care is needed when bidding though. Make sure that you have read the item description carefully as some of these can be very deceptive. For example, a friend of mine thought she was buying a bottle of Channel No5 that the seller claimed was an unwanted gift. She won it at 30 and was really pleased but what she had not noticed was that it was only a 5ml sample.

There is also a practise called shilling that raises its head from time to time on this site. This is where a seller, or a group known to that seller deliberately inflates the price of an item that is not attracting many bids.

If you are buying something that is expensive look at the seller's feedback and try to contact someone else who has previously dealt with them. Although feedback is provided by buyers and sellers this is not always reliable. There was recently a spate of sellers generating good feedback by selling items at 1p (you have to complete a transaction to leave feedback), in order to bump up their reputation.

Summary: Buying and selling on here can be fun but it is full of potential pitfalls.

I have left some auction prices below for Olympus SP 550UZ 7 MP Digital Camera with Dual Image Stabilized 18x Optical Zoom and other items you may be interested in.

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Olympus SP 550UZ 7 MP Digital Camera with Dual Image Stabilized 18x Optical Zoom:

The SP-550UZ features the world's most powerful zoom lens, offering maximum shooting versatility for travel, sports and everyday use. The 18x super telephoto zoom gets you closer to the action than any compact digital camera on the market. The 2-in-1 blur solution Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization keeps your shot steady by compensating for camera shake and freezes the action with high ISO sensitivity along with faster shutter speeds. Record TV-quality AVI movies close up with sound 640x480 at 30 fps up to the capacity of your xD card. Shutter Speed - 1/2000 Second - 15 Seconds ISO Output Sensitivity - Auto, High ISO Auto, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200,5000 Metering Mode - Digital iESP Auto Multi-Pattern TTL, Center-Weighted MeteringWhite Balance - iESP2 Auto, One-Touch, Presets (Sunlight, Overcast, Tungsten and 3 Fluorescents) Recording Modes - DCF Exif 2.21, PIM3 and JPEG Still Image, AVI Motion JPEG Movie 30 Shooting Modes - Auto, Program Auto, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual, My Modes, GUIDE, Scene Presets (Portrait, Landscape, Landscape & Portrait, Night Scene, Night & Portrait, Sport, Indoor, Candle, Self-Portrait, Available Light Portrait, Sunset, Fireworks, Cuisine, Documents, Auction, Shoot & Select1, Shoot & Select2, Beach, Snow, Underwater Wide 1, Underwater Wide 2, Underwater Macro) and Movie Panorama - Up to 10 frames automatically stitchable with Olympus brand xD-Picture Card Built-in Flash Modes - Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-In, Fill-In & Red-Eye, Slow Sync, Off Self-Timer - 12 Seconds, 2 Seconds, AUTO 20MB internal memory Power Supply - 4x AA Batteries, AC Adapter (C-7AU) System Requirements - Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 PRO, XP, VISTA, Mac OS 9.0-9.2x, OS X 10.1-10.4 or higher Dimensions - Width 4.6 x Height 3.1 x Depth 3.1 inch (116mm x 78.5mm x 78mm) Weight - 12.9 ounces (365 gram) without batteries and media card

Ebay. Wow. Throughout history there has been truly wonderous inventions and developments, humble things that serve to shape the world. The Wheel, the pen, free trade, navigation. And so it only fair in the lofty annuals of all time that Ebay should be granted a space.

For those who are unaware of what Ebay is, it is an internet auction site catering for nearly all imaginable forms of goods, everything from cars, houses to eletric toothbrushes. A more detailed discussion will be given below.

The most remarkable thing about Ebay is the ease of which it used, as well as the accessibility of it. If you wish to create an account you simply register, simply by providing details such as postal and email addresses, name, phone number along with a unique Ebay username.

Its that simple. The process is very simplistic and can be completed in a few sips of coffee/tea!

Ebay is a fantastic site. It is fun, addictive, and potentially very profitable, ideal either for some cursory internet shopping or for creating a simple on-line business.

Summary: A very enjoyable auction site.

I have left some auction prices below for Sony DVP NS57P S Progressive Scan DVD Player Silver and other items you may be interested in.

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Sony DVP NS57P S Progressive Scan DVD Player Silver:

The DVP-NS57P/S DVD player features Precision Cinema Progressive technology, providing sharper images for a better viewing experience. Unlike other DVD players that detect image changes at the Scan line level-Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive (PCP) system detects them at the Pixel level. This results in images closer to the original source data, because separate, optimized algorithms are used to handle the differing Pixel behavior. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts. Sony's Precision Drive III mechanism is also included, which helps maximize the performance of DVD collections by reading data even on some physically "warped" discs. Other benefits include fast/slow playback with sound, and custom parental control.