Community help boards are the places on eBay where the members of eBay and staff moderators correspond with each other, to post messages, to reply to questions and solve problems. There are a number of community help boards like for bidding, My eBay, search and other technical issues. After browsing through these topics you may post new topics or reply to topics.

To use community help boards, at the top of the page, click on the link community. Then click discussion boards link under connect. Choose and click on the community help board of your interest. You get to browse through the topics. Each of the topics will include the status, subject, date of last update, number of replies, etc. Click on the topic to see all this. You will find that each reply will have user id of the member who posted it. It will also include the members feedback rating, the date and time of post and a link that shall lead you to the members listings.

You may add a new topic for discussion by clicking on the link post a topic given at the bottom of any page of topics. Prepare your message by giving it a title and description. Click on the post message link.

You can post a reply by clicking on the link post a reply given on top or bottom of messages. Once you have typed your reply click on the post message link. There is also a feature in this to check the spellings in your topic or reply. This link is at the top right of the text box.