Confessions of an Internet Auction Junkie: How to Sell Virtually Anything on the Internet (With CD-ROM) (Miscellaneous) (Paperback)

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You can earn hundreds, even thousands of dollars running your own Internet auctions. But there's more to the Internet auction world than meets the eye: you need to know which secrets to take advantage of and what scams to avoid. Through an entertaining collection of stories-his own and those of others-Michael Weber demystifies Internet auctions by revealing the empowering techniques at the core of all successful Internet commerce.Confessions of an Internet Auction Junkie is the first authoritative, definitive book to bridge the gap by placing these topics under a single cover! If you'd like to earn a few hundred (or thousand!) extra dollars cleaning out your closet, this book is a must-read! Confessions is a multimedia experience; you'll move back and forth seamlessly from the book, to the CD-ROM, to your auctions on the Internet. ItemID: 0761530851

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prima Tech; 1st edition (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761530851
• ISBN-13: 978-0761530855
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,958,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated and he's making money on old info, December 8, 2002

By A Customer

I was really excited about this book and was totally dissapointed. Much of the book is outdated on loading pics, etc-the Internet moves and changes at the speed of light. You can learn just as much on eBay's help (free). He's making money off eBay-by selling information that is free-that's the whole concept of the book. Don't sell a product unless it's information. No cost to you - it's basically how to sell/scam "information poor" folks. Do your homework on the Internet and save your money.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy, Fun Auctioning Know-How, December 10, 2001

By	Jerry Andersen (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

I just started the book and so far it's great! The book is short, fast paced and had me involved from the get-go. It doesn't seem to leave out much about the auctioning process as it covers every aspect of auctioning for the absolute beginner to the advanced practitioner who outgrows or supplements their auctions by spinning-off into their own cyber-store. Amazing that this author can fit all this information in such a small space but, owing to his clean, crisp writing style, the material is presented in such a logical structure that what he writes is almost intuitive as your mind races forward and arrives at his conclusions seemingly before he does. He makes auctioning childishly simple. His use of exercises and the help of the enclosed CD had me building my auctioning empire from the first chapter.
The only misgivings I have concern the CD. First, a couple of the Internet links have changed - which is expected from any list of links that are more than a day old. A search engine ferrited out the needed sites. However, other sites simply no longer existed as the companies merged with others. Secondly, when I hit a link to a site I was transported to the site via the CD's enclosed browser. The problem is that the CD browser divides the screen into three equal vertical strips. The intended web site occupied only the middle strip. The left and right portions of the screen had menus displayed on them. The web site, reduced to a little sliver, was simply too awkward to work with and the URL of the site couldn't be found anywhere. Again I had to use the search engine to locate the web sites so that I could visit them in their full, un-enclosed beauty, using the Netscape or Explorer browsers.

These minor glitches weren't enough to distract me for long. I highly recommend this enjoyable book written in a conversational style. It's educational. It's fun. It's probably tax deductible.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars confessions of internet junkie, October 16, 2001

By	peggy (washington dc) - See all my reviews

I love this book and I am still reading it. I have learned alot from it. The only problem is I am very new to conputers and ebay so a lot of the terms I did not undestand. Since it assumes the reader knows what a url is or a pim or where the clipboard is
, But I was able to get help from a friend . The cd was great I now can put up a great html auction and when I emailed the author he was kind enough to reply . I am not sorry i bought this book and will refer to it often.