Hi Everyone!
My mom (katcarasella) was a model student, but it is quite easy! All you have to do is go in and choose a user name and password and register for an account intially for both EBAY and paypal if you do not have one yet. To buy and sell, rather than just "browse" you will need your ATM/debit card or a checkbook to "register" your bank information. Paypal is the median EBAY uses to accept and pay for items, as I am sure most of you are familiar since you have great AVITARS like my mom and probably donated to this site. Ebay is a great way to sell stuff, collect the money in paypal and support whatever online shopping you would like to do.
If you are fairly serious about selling you can browse the internet for a STOCK photo of an item or take a digital photo of it and click the sell it now area. I can answer any questions that you have, but it sounds like there are a ton of "well versed EBAY people here" too! Books are SUPER easy to start with, since they have an ISBN number on them that you can enter and all of the information is brought up automatically...super easy. I hope that my mom resumes EBAY with her books now. Books can be shipped via media mail too, which is SLOW but very reasonable.
Smiles and off to bed, TWO sick kiddos with temps tonight...FUN!