Today, one item I listed on eBay.ca was sold on eBay. The customer paid by PayPal soon. PayPal sent me an email which adviced me to “Print a shipping label”.

I have sold a few textbooks on amazon.ca. On amazon.ca, I need to click “ship confirmation” to notify amazon.ca to take the payment from the buyer. Here, on eBay.ca, I thought I should do something similar. I thought that’s to click that “Print a shipping label” button. But when I clicked that button on my eBay.ca and was redirected to PayPal.com. I logged in my PayPal account, they asked me to provide some shipping information, then they asked me to pay. I was confused: I’m selling stuff now, why I need to pay? So, I cancelled it.

I read a few webpages. I found that I made it complicated. I’m a new seller, so eBay.ca holds that money paid to me for a while. I just ship that item to the customer and the customer doesn’t file a dispute or something bad to eBay.ca for some time, the money will be released and then I can use the money.

The “shipping label” is a product from PayPal cooperated with some post offices etc. If you buy such a label and paste it on your shipping box, you can ship it in some post offices etc. You can track it on your PayPal account and some other advantages. But if you ignore it, you still can get your money. Anyway, if you use that “shipping label”, you need a scale and a ruler to measure your item so you can put correct information to that PayPal’s webpage.