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Summary: absolutely wonderful book
Review: It is filled with helpful information and links. I was so scared to start using ebay, but this book has set my mind at ease. Thank you so much...
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Summary: Find the Deal of the Century with eBay For Dummies.
Review: Looking for that special Beanie Baby missing from your collection? Trying to get rich off of Elvis collector's plates? eBay may be the answer to your quest. Millions of people log-on each day to the hottest online auction site to find one-of-a-kind merchandise or to sell their own. To maximize their eBay time, eBay For Dummies offers its expert advice and winning strategies for becoming successful eBay buyers and sellers. Written by a trio of eBay experts, the book covers basics such as registration, site navigation and setting-up your own "My eBay" page. The book also covers such advanced topics as bidding and selling techniques, completing sales transactions, and using bulletin boards and online communities. Readers will discover how to time an auction for maximum exposure, create persuasive and compelling sale pages, spot trends, and research buying and selling advice. eBay For Dummies is more than a how-to book, it's a step-by-step guide to the entire eBay community and experience including: * Finding out about competing buyers and sellers * Dealing with the Tax Man * Assessing eBay fees and shipping costs * Using images and your product description to make the sale * Taking advantage of charities, features and specialty auctions * Also- bonus For Dummies Parts of Tens ** Ten Golden Rules for eBay Buyers ** Ten Golden Rules for eBay Sellers About the Authors: Roland Woerner is an Emmy Award-nominated producer and writer for NBC's The Today Show. In addition to his news duties, he enjoys writing and producing segments exploring the world of technology and pop-culture. In his spare time he enjoys going on adventures with his daughters, flying airplanes, driving boats, and collecting lunchboxes and TV memorabilia. Stephanie Becker is an Emmy Award-nominated television producer for NBC News. Her essays as Gadget Gal have appeared both in Gadget Guru Guide Magazine and on the Web. She is an avid cyclist and has several unique collections, including refrigerator magnets, mementos from catastrophes around the world and dust bunnies. Marsha Collier is a multi-tasking professional involved with all aspects of graphics through her business, The Collier Company. In her spare time she's mastered the art of eBay and has over 600 positive feedbacks. Using her ability to spot trends, she continues to buy and sell on eBay, while also winning awards for her work in advertising and in her community.
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Summary: Turn Everyday Items into Cash with "eBay For Dummies"
Review: Millions of people depend on the "Dummies" series of books to help overcome the difficulties of navigating new technologies everyday. I'm one of these people. So when I had the opportunity to actually author a Dummies book with fellow eBay users Stephanie Becker and Marsha Collier, my goal was to create a book as helpful and fun as the ones I've relied on over the years. Our book, "eBay for Dummies", not only shares our personal buying and selling experiences on the world's most popular auction website, but includes winning strategies that will help you turn everyday household items into cold hard cash. If you're a seller, you'll see how easily you can turn a profit with a just little effort. And when your attic and basement are cleaned out, we'll even help you find outside sources for new things to sell. If you're a buyer, we offer all kinds of researching and bidding tips to help you take home the best deals. For beginners, "eBay For Dummies" includes the "nuts and bolts" of registering, creating auction pages, taking and posting pictures, searching for items, effective e-mailing, and even ways of keeping track of your new monthly income. For more advanced users we offer strategic buying and selling techniques like "sniping" with 2 browsers, running "reserve" and Dutch auctions, feedback research, using escrow and insurance, privacy issues, and even how to save money with free shipping supplies. So if you want to join the millions of other eBay users who are completing their collections or making money running auctions online, "eBay For Dummies" should be on your reading list.
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Summary: A solid tutorial on ebay
Review: There are so many books on the subject, that I had trouble deciding which to read. Because the Dummies series rarely lets me down, I bought this one and I was not disappointed! The book helped me gain confidence with buying and selling. It gave simple instructions to complete the requisite tasks and the information was spelled out in a friendly manner. The book had many tips that helped me win items at low prices and even gave me confidence to sucessfully list items for sale. I recommend it for any beginner who needs help negotiating ebay's enormous site.
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Summary: Great for beginners & as a handy reference!
Review: This book is great for beginners - there's nothing like flipping through a book to find answers quickly instead of wading through an online site. And even experienced eBayers will find the book handy to have on hand. (But if you have been doing eBay for 2 years, you probably don't need the book, so what are you doing here anyway??) I think this book will get more people involved in online auctions, and they will be better informed, which is a good thing for everyone with something to sell on eBay!
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Summary: Great book - Missed one critical tool
Review: This book is very well written and will give you a lot of instruction on how to use eBay that will save you lots of time. To find out how to sell products on eBay I would recommend Marsha's other book Starting an eBay business for Dummies in addition to this one. I recently became a millionaire buying and selling on eBay in my spare time in addition to my academic work and I can tell you its not that hard. You do have to know the secrets though and this book includes a lot but left out the biggest one. There is a software tool called www.powersnipe.com. eBay auctions are often lost in the last few seconds of the auction because the majority of people wait until the last seconds to place their bids. This tool bids for you at the last second and ensures you win, a big time saver and the biggest key to success.
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Summary: Don't waste your money or your time!
Review: this book must be for the truly dumb or brain dead because it is nothing more than a verbose version of the information that is contained within Ebay and Ebay's help menus for free. Any extra information I actually got from this book could fit onto a post it note with lots of room to spare. If you have bought or sold on ebay for more than a few weeks, don't waste your money on this book. As for mine, yep you guessed it. Its going up for sale on Ebay :)
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Summary: Covers everything you need to know about eBay
Review: This book was fun to read and answered my questions about ebay. I thought I was doing things right, but got a few tips about running auctions that helped my auctions get higher bids. That was definatly worth the price of the book! After reading the book myself, I gave it to a friend of mine who wanted to know more about ebay. After a few days I no longer got any phone calls with questions. This book helped him get on ebay and begin selling. I think that's quite a testament to the book as an extensive reference.
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Summary: Great Summary
Review: This is a great summary of how Ebay works. The book has many helpful hints and explains things simply. Some good strategies for bidding are mentioned. Of all the Dummies Books I have read this one is the best so far.
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Summary: Great eBay book...but quite opinionated....
Review: This is one of the GREAT eBay books--covering about everything--but is quite opinionated. For example the author has the strange notion that money orders are the perfect way for paying at eBay. (Possibly because she is a sucessful seller, and I guess the little amount PayPal charges to receive money adds up if you receive a lot.) The reader, if a newbie to eBay, needs to keep in mind that the author's prejudice against PayPal is not shared by everyone. For many, PayPal is the absolute best way to go for both buying and selling...no running down to the 7-11 or post office to get a money order...no having to listen to a buyer lying about how the money order must have gotten lost in the mail, when they never sent one. At one point, the author even strangely advises the reader to lie if they need to about forgetting to send money! She also makes it sound like those selling illegal items are quickly booted out of eBay, when it's no such thing. eBay is easily one of the biggest pirate's den in the whole wide world for people infringing on the copyrights of others.Gee, and then there was her remark about how the bidder should never bid in an auction until the very end--doing so marks the bidder as an inexperienced newbie. That's one of the stupidest practices at eBay...unless the seller is a cheat who's into getting his friends or relatives to bid...and takes so much out of the fun of an auction...no activity to the very end...BLAH!The humor in the book is also extremely forced and unfunny. Or maybe after you've read so many Dummies books, none of the humor is amusing any longer...unless the topic has you totally scared out of your mind...and you are desperate for a laugh...any laugh.Ah, but it's still a great eBay book, with loads of useful information! And it resells VERY WELL at eBay...so feel free to buy it new here at Amazon.com...get free postage...and then resell it at eBay and get most of your money back! Just don't spill anything on it, or write in it, or let your pet rabbit chew on it! :)
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