eBay Business the Smart Way: Maximize Your Profits on the Web’s #1 Auction Site
The online auction site eBay forever changed the way goods are bought and sold. While selling merchandise on the site remains quite profitable, the marketplace has grown increasingly crowded in recent years. This completely updated third edition of eBay Business the Smart Way gives new and veteran sellers the solid business strategy to outrun their rivals, covering topics including: * startup
* licenses
* building credibility
* accounting
* inventory management
* shipping
* finding products to sell
* creating a storefront website
* taxes
* liability
* saving expenses by buying business supplies on eBay With online theft and fraud on the increase, as well as continuously changing tax legislation and updates to the site, the most successful eBay sellers have to keep up. Along with hundreds of other crucial issues — from how to market one’s products and business, to… More >>
eBay Business the Smart Way: Maximize Your Profits on the Web’s #1 Auction Site
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Many are turning to ebay business to supplement an income or create an independent business, so the second unauthorized edition of Ebay Business The Smart Way: Maximize Your Profits On The Web’s #1 Auction Site will make the perfect gift for a large audience of online entrepreneurs, from housewives with a penchant for garage sales to budding businessmen. Learn how to set values, use trade shows, handle customers and orders, and more.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have read other books on starting an online auction business. I found this book to be very informative and useful. This information can help you start a business on Ebay. In fact resources in book can help you start a online auction selling business on other auction sites as well. For the serious auction seller this is a great resource.
Yes it is true the information presented does show you how to start a business in general terms but it also shows you how these general busness procedures are used with online selling at auctions. That is why you are looking at this book in the first place. I found this book to be a valued resource and would recommend it hands down.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book has a lot of good basic information for starting a business. But not very much of the book is dedicated to EBay exclusively. I thought it was worth the price, but I also wish the author had talked more about EBay and less about how to run a small business in general, since I already know how to do that!
So, if you are a newbie to EBay, this is a good starting point. But if you are an experienced seller, then this book is probably too remedial for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
I found the excessive number of typos, punctuation and grammatical errors in this book very distracting. I am astounded this book publisher has not even bothered to do the simplest of spell-checks before sending this book to print. There seemed to be an average of AT LEAST one grammatical or spelling error A PAGE. A simple software program would have caught the majority of these errors. Here are some actual examples: “managemenet, mangement, a advisor, an physically, lucreative, conscentrate” (the list goes on, and on, and on).
Maybe I’m being a bit too hard on the author and publisher, but these mistakes, combined with major content omissions and the amount of fluff found in this book, give me the impression that it was written in about a week and a half. As some of the other readers pointed out, I’m not even convinced this guy has REALLY sold on eBay. Something tells me he’s just studied it.
What I found most helpful about this book were the numerous internet links Sinclair has included, as wells as many of his small business-related recommendations, such as his suggestion to hire an independent contractor, rather than an employee for tax & liability purposes. He did a good job filtering out the eBay basics that would have bored seasoned eBay retailers.
My thanks to Sinclair for reinforcing the idea of customer service. Far too many eBay sellers are seriously lacking in this department these days, making a bad impression that hurts the rest of us.
Rating: 3 / 5
Thanks for writing this great guide to eBay. I wanted to help my mother get started selling antiques on eBay and you’ve written the perfect book for someone like her — she’s smart, but she’s just starting out and needs all the help she can get. Thanks for saving me the grief of trying to show her myself — you’re much better at it anyway!
Rating: 5 / 5