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The Everything Online Auctions Book: All You Need to Buy and Sell with Success--on eBay and Beyond (Everything (Business & Personal Finance))

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The book covers most of the culture surrounding auctions from both the buyer and sellers point of view.

It provides a very good guide for reducing hassles between buyers and sellers.

Though it was published in 2008, more than half it's content is out of date.

The author covers eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, and uBid. He goes into gross detail on how to work in each system.

Unfortunately, two of the four are no longer conducting auctions in the US and uBid requires the seller be an actual business and a lengthy process just run auctions on its site.

I call books like these "books of the moment".

They maybe true when the author wrote them but not necessarily true now.

The sign up process for eBay can change considerably since the book came out.

For this book and others like it, to provide this much detail is only setting themselves up for a very short shelf life. The book is easy to read but towards the end began reading like a brochure. If you get the book, don't read it end to end like I did. Much of it is obsolete but you will gain some interesting insight on auctions that can be useful.

Borrowed the book as a Prime Member