Sprayfly

I recently encountered some difficulties selling items worldwide on eBay. Whilst eBay would let me sell items within the UK, I was not able to offer postage to other countries. When I tried to offer Worldwide postage, I received the following message:

Attention Seller:
In order to maintain a safe trading environment, selling limits are occasionally placed on accounts. Your eBay account has been restricted from listing this item at this time until you have verified through PayPal.

1) To verify your PayPal account, click on your country of eBay registration below to understand how to complete that process.

2) If you already have a verified PayPal account, and are still receiving this message, you need to link it to your eBay account.

For instructions on how to become PayPal Verified or how to link your PayPal account to your eBay account, please click on the site of your eBay registration below:

I proceeded to follow eBay’s instructions and followed the steps on the Paypal website to become a ‘verified’ seller. I then followed the below steps to ‘link’ my paypal account with my eBay account:

1. Sign into My eBay
2. Select the ‘Paypal Account’ link from the left-hand menu
3. Click on ‘Update Profile Summary’
4. Log into Paypal

This should link your account to eBay.

After following the above steps, if you are able to offer worldwide postage, you are indeed lucky. I was not and so next tried the following:

1. Log into Paypal
2. Click on ‘Profile’
3. Under ‘Selling Preferences’ click on ‘Auctions’
4. If your eBay account name isn’t present then add it.

Unfortunately, this still didn’t solve the problem (although it may solve yours). I did some more searching around and found another possible solution:

1. Sign into eBay
2. Go to My eBay
3. On the left hand side, underneath ‘My Account’, select ‘Addresses’
4. Click on ‘View all postal addresses’
5. If your ‘Paypal Address’ is present then make that address your primary address (Hit the ‘Make Primary’ link on the right hand side.
6. If your ‘Paypal Address’ is not present then you will need to scroll down to the ‘Add PayPal Addresses button’ below the list of available addresses and ‘link’ your eBay addresses to your Paypal account.

This last solution did the trick for me and I am now able to offer worldwide postage of my items on any eBay site (US, UK, Ireland etc)

Hopefully this guide will help anybody else out there who has encountered this problem find a quick solution.

I recently installed Twirl, an Adobe Air application that helps to keep you up to date with Twitter on my Windows Vista computer. The application is great, however, there was one thing that annoyed me - whenever I clicked on a link, it would always open in Internext Explorer - even though Mozilla Firefox is my default browser.

After googling around for a while, I managed to find the below solution on twhirl’s blog which seemed to do the trick for me:

Go to Start > Default Programs > Set Program Access and Computer Defaults
Expand Custom, select the radio button next to the application you want to set as the system-wide default browser (there will be a few options - such as IE, Safari, Mozilla) and apply the setting.

Hopefully all your links should now open in Firefox and not in IE.

I had a quick go at tidying up my sidebar today - as part of an ongoing effort to keep my site clear, clean and succinct. Basically, the ‘categories’, ‘feeds’, and ‘links’ sections are now all hidden initially when you load a page - to save some sidebar space. However, if you wish to view any of them you simply need to click on the ‘Show’ link beneath the header and the content will magically appear on your screen.

For any interested parties, the hide/show function works using the “Scriptaculous” javascript library. I have to admit that I got this idea from Duane Storey’s personal blog - so I’m sending him some link love

If you would like the code, just look at the source code for this page. If you still don’t understand then just leave a comment.

The WL-HDD Wiki which was formerly hosted under the sprayfly.com domain name now has its own address at wlhdd.co.uk. Likewise, I have set up a blog so you can keep up with any updates to the Wiki or any other related news at wlhdd.co.uk/blog/. For more info head over to the full post on the wiki’s blog.