Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Passwords

I suggest you start a book for your logins and passwords. I had a complete computer meltdown and discovered how much I relied on auto fill so I started in an old address book. That works great since I have waaaaay too many sites and passwords, I have registered for up till now. Other people have used unused check registers and even a running list in a plain notebook. I still think the address book is best since you go to the letter of the alphabet for the website and there are only a few different passwords listed. My son says everyone should have a number of different levels of password security. Example: the password you login to the NY Times or other reading/browsing sites is less secure and used more often than the one for your bank business which would be the most secure and used for only banking at one bank. By keeping a book you can have each bank, credit card, any stock trading, Paypal account, and EBay each could have a unique password. In between sites like email or shopping could be at either end of that security spectrum at your discretion.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Losing Power

Was in the middle of listing and the power went out. Now the power is back and I found the solution to starting over: Saving a Draft of an Unfinished Listing If you start to create a new listing in the Sell Your Item form, but you don't get to finish it, eBay will save it as a draft so that you can easily finish it later. How it works As you fill out the Sell Your Item form and click the Continue button at the bottom of a page, all the information you've entered so far is saved for you on eBay. When you want to finish the listing, return to eBay and click on Sell at the top of any page. On the Sell page, click on the "Complete Your Listing" link. You can continue from where you left off in the Sell Your Item form. Availability of your saved draft Your saved draft remains available on eBay for you to complete unless one of the following happens: Over 30 days pass since the last time you edited the draft. After this period, the draft will expire. You start a brand new listing and click Continue on the Title & Description page. This new listing now becomes your saved draft, replacing the previous one. (You can only have one saved draft at a time.) In rare cases, technical difficulties or outages on eBay may cause your saved draft to be erased