Product Description
With today’s rocky economy and unsteady job market, there’s never been a better time to earn extra cash online. And now there’s a new book that guides you each step of the way: eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days. Access the world’s biggest marketplace, right from your own home.
You’ll learn how to:
– Register at eBay and PayPal
– Start part-time and expand your income when you’re ready
– Find great inventory at low prices
– Auction to the highest bidder or sell at fixed prices
– Identify niche markets for big profits
– Get tax deductions for your eBay home-based business
– Guard against scammers and rip-off artists
Starting a business on eBay is perhaps your fastest route to the American Dream. The payoff can be high, and the barriers to entry are low.
The world’s most popular online marketplace, eBay has millions of registered buyers waiting to do business with you. For less than $100 and very little risk, you can start an eBay venture with profit margins rivaling those of any business. Exactly how much money you earn depends mostly on how much effort you put into your new enterprise and how efficiently you operate it.
In this new eBay guide, you’ll see:
How eBay works … Register your business … Sell your item … Build your listing
Timing, planning your auction … Make a picture worth $1,000 … Use Pre-filled Item Information … Price your item … Reserve Pricing … Multiple Item (Dutch) Auctions … The auction alternative: fixed prices … Best Offer listing option … Upgrade your listings … The best time to list
Profit with a niche … Start with used merchandise … Win with niche selling … Cash in on collectibles … Autographed items … Trust, but authenticate … How to recognize fake autographs
Get more great inventory … Estate sales … Bankruptcy sales … Thrift shops … Local artisans … Close-out merchandise … Library sales … Overstock distributors … Find overlooked gems at estate sales … Live auctions … Postal Service auctions … Treasury Department auctions … GSA Auctions … Government Liquidation … Law Enforcement Auctions … Classified ads … Get merchandise on eBay … Get merchandise on consignment … Become a trading assistant
Expand your business … Create your `About Me’ page … Cross-promotions … Open an eBay store … Set up shop … Promote your store … eBay Express … Using eBay’s Half.com site … Google Base … Why many would-be PowerSellers fail
Prevent problem customers … Set Buyer Requirements … Be a feedback fanatic … Completing sales … Communicate with a packing slip … Respond to feedback … Mutual Feedback Withdrawal … Feedback policies … Handle customers right … Unpaid item disputes … Work with PayPal
Avoid scams and fraud … Spot shady buyers … Recognize predators … Avoid phishing e-mails … Beware of hoax e-mails … Avoid drop-ship, wholesale scams … Recognize crooks and middlemen … Warning signs of bogus wholesalers … Know a fake from the real McCoy
Ship efficiently … Choose a shipping company … Communicate when you ship … Pare shipping costs to the bone … Sell Get It Fast Items … Handle delivery snafus … Print online postage … Organize your inventory … Design your SKU system
Get efficient with fulfillment software … TurboLister … Selling Manager … Software for media sellers … Research prices wirelessly
More eBay rules … Prohibited and restricted items … Shill bidding … Keyword spamming … Fee Circumvention … Sales taxes … Income taxes … Business use of your home … Hiring employees
eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days
Book is long and not as easy to understand as help info on online eBay.
Good reference to keep on book shelf.
Rating: 2 / 5
Good Book. Great information on Ebay. Anyone starting on on Ebay should read it.
Rating: 4 / 5
A good starter book for someone wanting to learn eBay. Hits most of the basics. Some chapters were a little more involved than they may need to be for a beginner like myself, but it does prepare you if you want to do more than just simple eBay selling.
Overall it was a good help for me.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book gives a lot of insight to things I had never even given thought to. If you are thinking about selling on ebay, this is the book to start with!
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this book with the intention of doing business on eBay. I have finished reading the book and I am where I started. This book does not tell you any details that you did not know by reading eBay own help documents online.
This book attempts to tell you how to do marketing and business on eBay, but is very very general. For that matter, I could have bought a general business and marketing book from any other source.
For example, I was hoping that I can find examples of how much eBay would charge you for the different type of doing business on its website. Instead, the author says that he cannot try to describe that, because it changes all the time. This is a very lame excuse in my opinion. I wish the author gave an example with numbers. For example, if you pick up “auction” style selling, here is estimation of the charges. Just that one like me, who is just starting, gets a feeling for if doing business on eBay is worth it or not.
Sorry, but the book was just a big disappointment for me.
Rating: 1 / 5
Perhaps I can add to this that the best way to guard against being ripped off by online sales or auctions is to use a bona fide online escrow company. Although it does add some cost, that will take uncertainty out of the transaction.
For my money, the best bona fide online escrow (and there seems to be ten fraudulent escrow sites for every bona fide one) is probably Escrow.com (http://escrow.com). In fact, it’s the only one that eBay recommends.
Take care,
Ulf Wolf