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The Beginner's Guide to Buying and Selling on Ebay

Clare McCann

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Like the idea of eBay but too daunted to give it a try? This little book provides all the answers to the questions you were too afraid to ask, in a user-friendly, jargon-free way and - in true eBay style - for a bargain price. Bursting with bite-sized nuggets of wisdom, this step-by-step guide for the uninitiated, includes advice on everything from selling a picture frame to buying the car of your dreams. Whether you'd like to set up a stall or simply haggle at the world-famous online marketplace, this is the perfect companion for any budding 'eBayer'. What are you waiting for?

Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay (Buying & Selling on Ebay)

Stacey King Gordon

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

good guidelines to protect yourself 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book can be interesting even if you have utterly no intention of buying or selling jewelry on eBay. Who would have thought when eBay started up, selling trinkets, that jewelry would rapidly form a multimillion dollar niche? Not a small niche at all.

Gordon goes into the practical details for both buyers and sellers. The book's paramount theme seems to be how to avoid getting ripped off. Unsurprising, considering the high valued nature of the items. For professional sellers, detecting fake buyers is vital to staying solvent. Whereas real buyers tend not to do this as a profession. So while a buyer might suffer a loss due to a fake seller, it's not like being put out of business.

But, if you follow her guidelines and use some common sense, you should have good chances of a successful transaction.

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In recent years, U.S. jewelry sales on the Internet have grown to nearly $3 billion yearly, a figure attained in part because of the popularity of eBay. "Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay" walks you through the process of using eBay to both purchase and purvey jewelry-from finding the perfect gem and the right style of jewelry to understanding the rules of advertising and selling jewelry to consumers. This book also aims to help you gain confidence in eBay as a marketplace, teaching you how to weed out questionable buyers and sellers. You'll learn how professionals in the jewelry industry successfully use eBay, discover how to efficiently search by category for the jewelry you want to buy, and find out how to become an eBay PowerSeller.

Decorating on eBay : Fast & Stylish on a Budget

Barbara Guggenheim

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Decorate the smart way -- with eBay!

When art consultant Barbara Guggenheim took on the project of decorating a model house for KB Home, a premier home builder, she wondered how she could juggle the project along with her full-time job and other daily duties. She found the perfect solution on eBay. With its all-hours convenience, eBay proved to be an easy, affordable tool for finding just the right thing -- and some unexpected things, as well! The result was a fantastic four-bedroom home -- complete with a Tiki Loft and Adirondack-style guest room -- decorated on a budget of $50,000, entirely from eBay.

Follow Guggenheim on her fascinating journey, from looking for inspiration to planning a concept for each room to finding space for the hundreds of wonderful items that landed on her doorstep. Decorating on eBay offers great advice, whether you're looking for an entirely fresh look for your home or simply searching for a few fabulous new pieces. Filled with creative and practical ideas, this beautifully photographed book encourages readers everywhere that they, too, can achieve their dream home without the outrageous price tag.

eBay Quicksteps

John Cronan, Carole Matthews

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eBay Quick & Easy 4 out of 5 stars.
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eBay Quick Steps
A book review by Frank Dobrowolski
May 12, 2005

by Carole Matthews & John Cronan
Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne
ISBN 0-07-225506-4 2004 240 pages
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This is a short book, with wide margins and many vivid color illustrations and tables. As a result it is a quick read - per its title. It has a simple, direct approach which works well for eBay beginners and novices. It also contains some information that likely would help advanced users.

I like the illustrated, annotated Walk through of an eBay Transaction
1. Prospective seller registers to sell an item on eBay
2. Takes photos of object to sell and writes a description of it
3. Enters the description, photos, payment terms, shipping information, and other supporting material into eBay's auction selling form
4. Track the item as buyers start bidding on it
5. The buyer registers to participate in the auction
6. Buyer finds the item and bids on it
7. Buyer wins the auction and connects with seller to verify the details and the buyer pays the seller
8. Seller sends the package per the shipping terms specified
9. Buyer receives the item
10. Buyer and Seller provide feedback about each other in this transaction.

The Find Your Way around eBay chapter begins with a page-filling illustration that is typical of this book. The eBay home page is shown and eight areas are picked with a comment on each. The chapter continues with more large figures and sidebar "Tips" and "notes".

One page is filled with a table that lists the type of auction, gives a description and notes requirements. For example:
* Auction - Buy It Now [Fixed Price]
* Description - Offers the item for a given price and there is no auction
* Requirement - Seller must have a feedback rating of at least 30 and be a registered user for at least 14 days of be ID Verified.

The guidance on ID Verified contains 11 steps and one figure, one Note and one Tip.

The following chapters are similarly presented in easy to follow text with numerous colorful illustration, tables and sidebars. Chapter 9 presents information I have not seen this in other books on eBay and it is done well here. The Chapter
has sections entitled
* Detect and Report Account theft
* Use Buyer Fraud-Protection Measures
* File a Fraud Alert
* Set up a Bidder Alert
* Block Bidders or Buyers
* Report Unwelcome Buyers
* Use Additional Resources
a. Security Center
b. Law Enforcement & Other Resources

This may be the best book on eBay I have seen for beginners and novices in using eBay. Advanced users probably would find some information that they could use.

Editorial Review:

Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on eBay in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don’t break the flow of the quick steps themselves.

Titanium eBay, 2nd Edition: A Tactical Guide to Becoming a Millionaire Powerseller

Skip McGrath

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How to make it to the online big time! Titanium eBay® is for everyone who aspires to reach the highest level of success within eBay®, whether they’ve been selling for years or whether they’re just starting out but have ambitious plans for their business. With 60 chapters that leave no stone unturned, this is truly the business bible for eBay® PowerSellers.

• eBay® ended 2007 with over $8.7 billion in gross merchandise sales
• There are 212 million global registered eBay® users operating across 23 international eBay® sites—twice as many as in 2004
• There are approximately 720,000 PowerSellers on eBay® who make a living selling merchandise through eBay®.

Win Your Way to Wealth: Win Competitions and Sell Your Prizes Online

Debbie Loton, Tony Loton

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Have you heard about compers? I mean those people who enter every competition they can find, on the basis that "You've got to be in it to win it". Those people who, in some cases, do nothing but enter competitions. They don't work a regular job. They win stuff, they sell it. I was a little sceptical about this. Could someone really treat competition winning as a kind of occupation, or at least as a supplementary income? Then I tried it. I discovered that it is possible to create a steady stream of wins, so that you can: Receive surprise treats that you wouldn't otherwise buy, or couldn't otherwise afford. Go places you've never been - to see shows, or on holiday. Generate a handy second income, by selling your unwanted prizes. Do all this while having fun doing puzzles, playing games, and answering quiz questions on the web. You might even... Win Your Way to Wealth!

Developing eBay Business Tools For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

John Kaufeld, Tim Harvey

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

Tries Hard to Cover Everything 2 out of 5 stars.
17 of 17 people found this review helpful.

A significant proportion of this book is dedicated to producing well presented listings. Easy HTML for ebay does a far better job of covering the same ground. There are also alot of quick tips that are easy to apply (and have been better covered in books such as ebay hacks).

Most of the software packages on the CD are trial versions. Nothing innovative or new is included.

The descriptions of the ebay sandbox and API are very superficial - enough to get you started but little else. The chapter on office development tells you that "serious"
experience is required and little information is availible from the ebay development site and advises the reader to concentrate on PHP - not bad advice but it takes 7 pages to get there.

Conclusion: the scope of the book is overambitious. It results in a good description of how to prepare listings, some useful tips and a superficial introduction to the ebay API.

Editorial Review:

• Features ready-to-use applications-all available on the CD-ROM-that eBay sellers can plug right into their pages; more advanced users can tweak the applications to suit specific needs
• Shows you how to streamline an eBay business by leveraging programming technologies and the eBay API (application program interface)
• Explains how to connect eBay pages to the APIs of related companies (PayPal, Fed Ex, UPS, and the USPS) as well as to Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook and Excel
• Provides expert tips and tricks for implementing eBay technologies such as image handling, shipping calculators, enhanced About Me pages, and back-office tools

How to Sell Toys and Hobbies on eBay (Entrepreneur Pocket Guides)

Entrepreneur Press, J. S. McDougall

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Make a bundle selling toys

Set yourself apart in a catgory with nearly a million items for sale with this insider's guide to turning dolls into dollars. Attract both buyers who collect toys and those looking for great gifts for the kids in their lives with targeted keywords, specialized pricing strategies and hot display tips.

Whether you're a seasoned toy collector or just looking to clear out the toys in your garage, you can benefit from these exclusive tips from eBay PowerSellers specializing in toys and hobbies.

You'll get:

• Sources and leads for the best places to buy toys and hobby supplies
• Proven methods for identifying new toy and hobby trends
• Insider secrets to predicting the next hot toy
• Tricks to taking great photos of every item
• Tips about damage or wear that affects pricing
• Copywriting techniques that bring in droves of bidders
• The best shipping options for fragile or rare toys

Plus: eBay PowerSellers' exclusive category tips!

Learn How to Buy and Sell on eBay for 5 Bucks (Learn for 5 Bucks)

Stephen Gregory, Larry Becker, Jim Workman

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all the info you can find on ebay 1 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Nothing new in this book. If you go to any help page on ebay you can find this information not worth the time or money

Editorial Review:

In order to make money you need to spend money--$5 to be precise, an investment you're likely to earn back in spades on your first eBay auction if you follow the advice in this pocket-sized guide! By focusing on just the most common tasks you're likely to perform, this tight, bright, four-color guide serves as a super quick reference to using eBay safely, securely, and (most importantly) profitably! In less than 50 pages, eBay veteran and digital technology whiz Stephen Gregory covers all the eBay essentials: making safe purchases, setting yourself up as a seller, writing effective product descriptions, creating and posting persuasive product photos, ensuring transaction security, and making sure your customers are happy. Each page features a full-page visual (either a photograph or a software screen shot), step-by-step instructions, and perhaps a warning or tip at the bottom of the page-nothing extraneous, nothing more than you actually want to know!