Finding parts and information for your car on eBay

Perhaps by now you are wondering. What this has to do with the classic car hobbies? Surely all this technic talk is best left to the computer bods out

There? well yes and no! The backroom workings of eBay are best left to technic minded people agreed, but as more and more people are finding out to their benefit. You do not need to know. How much about computing to really benefit from spending a few minutes getting genned up on how, and why, to give eBay a try.


Example of a motoring enthusiast using eBay

Lets take a hypothetical case. Andy is restoring an Austin A35.looking for some parts to complete his rebuild. He regularly trawls around auto jumbles. Does find some parts from time to time that he needs. However he has heard that eBay can help in this search, so decides to have a look.

He does a search for Austin A35, and many auction items, that contain these words, come back. Below is a live snapshot of the first ten Austin A35 items that Bob would see, if he did this search, today, right at the moment you are reading this!

Getting Registered

Next, you need to Register. Again, click on one of the Austin A35 eBay items above, to get you on to eBay. At the top left, click on the Home link. Just below, you'll see an option to Register (the screenshot alongside shows you where this is). Click this and it brings up a form, which you fill in to complete your registration. To register as a buyer costs nothing, and will allow you to set up your favourite searches, and even ask eBay to email you when items that match your searches get listed! And all at no cost to yourself - how clever is that!!

Once you have registered, all you need to do is go to www.ebay.co.uk (or www.ebay.com if you're in the USA) and Sign In, using the details you have registered. You're now set up and ready to use eBay to help you find parts and information on your particular car, whether old or new.