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1000 Best eBay Success Secrets: Secrets From a Powerseller

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This was a wonderful book. I can't say enough positive things about it in this review. About a year ago I was asked to help put on a 2-hour seminar on eBay as a topic of interest to SCORE clients. I got a few publications and read a few books on the subject. Then I got myself a User ID for eBay and studied the site a bit. Everything I read, studied, and learned is in this little $13 book AND MORE!

This book is comprised of 22 chapters split into four sections:

1. Before the sale
2. During the sale
3. After the sale
4. Opening eCommerce Stores

Being an eBay seller can be so many different things. You could be someone who wants to sell things online rather than at a yard sale. You might be someone wanting to make some extra money by selling a small number of items for a reasonable profit considering the time you have to spend doing it. You might be a small business that has slow-moving or excess inventory you want to unload, but not through your storefront. Or you might be someone who wants to be a big retailer, but do it without a storefront. This book addresses all of those things - and it does it well.

I recommend this book especially to the person who wants to better understand the eBay site. Get a User ID and password and start exploring the site. Then read this book and take notes of things that interest you. Then go back to the site and explore the ideas and concepts you took notes on from the book. Repeat the process and you will really become an expert on eBay. So much so that you can have it do anything you want it to do for you.

This book was really a nice read. And the author definitely knows his stuff. It would be so nice if most of the other books on or about eBay were written with the amount of wisdom included herein. 5 stars!

This book has many great tips for a beginner, but having been a member of eBay since 1999, there were only a few things in it that I hadn't learned the hard way. For someone just starting out, though, it provides a good overview of how eBay works, how to set up your account, how to integrate PayPal and postage, tips for selling and buying, etc. There are also some good resources listed in the book.

The author explains wholesale and drop ship options for sellers and tells what to do before, during and after the sale. With years of experience, he shows readers a very thorough overview eBay and its systems, with invaluable tips and tricks to save time and money.

One thing I thought should have been mentioned is for users to watch where they leave negative feedback. eBay allows retaliatory feedback, which isn't fair to the buyer who got the shaft. You might pay $300 for an electronic game for your child, for instance, immediately after the auction ends, and the seller might not ship it to you for two months (if ever.) In the meantime, your child misses out on his big birthday gift, you're out the money, and it's frustrating as can be.

If you leave negative feedback, even though you did everything the right way, the seller can leave negative feedback for you as well - for no reason other than to just be mean. If this happens and lowers your eBay feedback score, the only way eBay allows you to get it off is for the buyer and the seller to both remove the feedback for each other. This hurts other buyers out there who won't see the true results of the transaction and might ultimately be taken advantage of in the same way.

I have read this book twice now.
It really has 1000 tips, and each one is a paragraph or two long. Plus they are numbered, so it's easy to keep track of the tips you like best. All you have to do is write down the numbers on a card (or even in the back of the book).

I have an eBay store and this book gave me lots of great advice before I opened it.

It's arranged in chapters, so the tips are organized according to subject.

It's great to read in a waiting room setting or anywhere else that you only get a few minutes to read at a time. Just whip it out and read a few tips. Before you know it, you're done with the book. And its size makes it easy to carry along too. It fits inside my jacket pocket.

It starts out with basic tips, but moves right along until it ends with professional tips for power sellers and store 'owners'. There are many tips I didn't pick up in any of the other books I've read about eBay.

Get it, it's worth it!

Greg Holden's "The 1000 Best eBay PowerSeller Secrets," reads a bit like Cliff Notes in that it is a compact summary and commentary on the eBay experience, but he's crafted every nugget to perfection. Packed with wisdom, the 352 pages of essential advice for the eBay entrepreneur is a quick read. (If you want an eBay book with a bit more girth, then read his "eBay for Dummies," guide.)

On the topic of drop shippers, Greg Holden is on the mark. He provides an accurate account and yet neither dissuades or persuades the reader to take action either way. He simply presents an account of the facts. Well done! Incidentally, I don't believe in drop shipping.

On the topic of what to sell, again Holden presents the facts to simplicity, Yet nothing he presents is trite. There is a wholesome goodness of the truth about eBay when he advises to try to make a $10 profit on each sale, think small in terms of merchandise size, and don't sell too many different types things. In earnest, these are mistakes that almost every eBay seller has touched upon at one time or another, and yet it is Holden's gentle nudging that makes his words effective.

Finally, he presents a number of valuable Web sites to visit. That alone is worth the price of admission. Buy it now. It's available on Kindle too.

BRAVO! FIVE STARS!

M.C. Nygard
Former eBay Platinum PowerSeller

EBay 'Powerseller' author Greg Holden has been so named because his Ebay business has produced proven success results, so his 1000 Best Ebay Success Secrets comes from the tested wisdom of tried techniques, not ideals. Tips on identifying hot items, attracting buyers with the best descriptions, and making all aspects of the sale from listing to feedback flow smoothly offers an excellent set of insights on not just the basics of Ebay, but how to get the most from each sale: Ebay seller just starting out will learn a tremendous amount, making 1000 Best Ebay Success Secrets a pick for virtually any public library collection.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Read this in one long sitting. Some of is for the large E-Bay powerseller, and there are quite a number of repetitions (I suppose 1,000 secrets sounds much better than 925 secrets), but I imagine there is something for everyone here. Nice organization as well.

This book is by a man who has been on Ebay since the late 90s. He's a Powerseller and knows the ins and outs of the system in a way that I have not seen in other books.

What I liked about this book is that it shows you how to run a real Ebay business. It isn't for beginners, although it would be fine if you are. It's not for hobby-types, although it would be fine if Ebay is just a hobby for you.

It talks about how to run an Ebay business, not just getting your stuff online to sell, but how to handing things before, during, and after. There are 1000 tips here, so you'll find something that is helpful to you, regardless of the level you're at.

If you have basic knowledge of Ebay, you'll benefit by reading this book. As the system changes all the time, there are some things that are a bit dated, but there is enough good here to give it a strong 5-star rating.

I reviewed another eBay selling book just a short time ago but picked this one up at the library when looking for another book and thought I'd give it a quick read. After all, the price was right!

I should first say that the format of this book is one that I don't care for at all. Listing "secrets" one by one (especially when you have 1000) just doesn't give time for a full exploration of each topic. Most topics are only a single paragraph - often as little as two or three sentences. In addition, there is no sense of which "secrets" are most important.

That being said, this book was actually much improved over the earlier eBay book I reviewed. The author is an eBay Powerseller for mostly mundane products: men's and women's shoes. The book is more current and is broken down into sections: before the sale, during the sale, after the sale and opening e-commerce stores.

I enjoyed the book and found at least 3-4 ideas that I thought were especially helpful. If that's all you get out of the book, and you can read it for free like I did by borrowing it from the library, then it's well worth it.