Titanium eBay, 2nd Edition: A Tactical Guide to Becoming a Millionaire Powerseller [Mass Market Paperback]

Skip McGrath (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 7, 2009

How to make it to the online big time! Titanium eBay® is for everyone who aspires to reach the highest level of success within eBay®, whether they?ve been selling for years or whether they?re just starting out but have ambitious plans for their business. With 60 chapters that leave no stone unturned, this is truly the business bible for eBay® PowerSellers.

? eBay® ended 2007 with over $8.7 billion in gross merchandise sales
? There are 212 million global registered eBay® users operating across 23 international eBay® sites?twice as many as in 2004
? There are approximately 720,000 PowerSellers on eBay® who make a living selling merchandise through eBay®.

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About the Author

Skip McGrath has been an eBay PowerSeller since 1998. He is a registered eBay Trading Assistant, has lectured at eBay’s annual convention and training event, eBay Live, and is the author of The eBay PowerSeller’s Manual—one of the best-selling books on eBay — as well as five additional eBay titles. In 2000, he launched The Auction Seller’s Resource website (www.skipmcgrath.com) and began publishing The eBay Seller’s News, a monthly news letter for professional auction sellers. He also writes the “Auction Tips” column for the PayPal periodical.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; 2 edition (April 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159257842X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592578429
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Books > Computers & Technology > Business & Culture > eBay

More About the Author

Skip McGrath was born in Oakmont , PA right at the end of WW-II. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade to join the US Navy, serving two tours in the Vietnam theater. After the Navy Skip found himself a job as a technical rep for an international company where he traveled and lived abroad in a number of countries for the next ten years. Later he worked his way into the marketing department, eventually ending up as a VP of International Marketing for a fortune 100 company.

In 1999, Skip decided to bag the corporate world, hanging up his three-piece suits for jeans and t-shirt when he and his wife, Karen, started an eBay business working out of their home. For the past 11 years Skip has run several successful businesses on eBay, Amazon and from four websites.

Skip wrote his first book in 2000, The eBay PowerSellers Manual (now out of print). Since then he has written several books including the best-selling Titanium eBay and Three Weeks to eBay profits. In 2009 he collaborated with his daughter-in-law Lissa McGrath to write The Complete Idiots Guide to eBay.

Skip still sells self-published books and training courses from his website under his name and still sells on eBay, Amazon and from his websites.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to become an eBay Power Seller extraordinaire, June 8, 2010

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imagineer586 (Lakewood, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Titanium eBay, 2nd Edition: A Tactical Guide to Becoming a Millionaire Powerseller (Mass Market Paperback)

Titanium eBay is a book that teaches you how to be an eBay Power Seller extraordinaire!

This is really a fantastic book because I have been thinking about starting an eBay business for some time now - but was very intimidating. I thought it would be an expensive and complicated process - but McGrath explains the process in plain English and he explains how the potential to become a Titanium Power Seller is fairly simple and not too expensive!

Titanium EBay covers all of the basics such as getting officially organized as a business, how to sell something on eBay, where to find stuff to sell on eBay and how to sell stuff more efficiently on and off of eBay. It also discusses business management, financing and organization.

The book gives you very simple and powerful tips and tricks to sell on eBay. A few sections of the book focuses on researching products to sell on eBay. I really found this to be one of the most valuable subjects of the book.

My problem of late is that I am not finding a source from which to buy products to sell, and which of those products is actually profitable on eBay. McGrath goes into great detail about the different methods to research a product and its valuability in selling. He talks about the product's life-cycles and how to track products that have sold through eBay.

Overall it's a really great book. It is easy to read and very inspiring. There was much information that directs newbies to many different paths that could lead to success with hard work and determination and with just a little bit of money. Also, Skip McGrath's website is full of excellent resources, and enhances the subjects covered in the book. A must for every E-Bay seller!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best eBay Book Out There!, January 1, 2010

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A. Jacquot "leoherder" (Priest River, Idaho) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titanium eBay, 2nd Edition: A Tactical Guide to Becoming a Millionaire Powerseller (Kindle Edition)

I have been reading books on eBay "tips and techniques" for years. I started this one with a Kindle sample and not much faith that it would be any different than the others, or tell me anything I didn't already know. Boy was I wrong!

This book lays it all out from beginning to end. If you want to sell on eBay for living, this book will tell you how. I highly recommend this book for all beginning and experienced eBay sellers. I've been doing well on eBay, but this book is going to help me really take off.

Thanks to Skip Mcgrath for a Fantastic Guide!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best BOOK!!!, February 3, 2010

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Derrick J. Sisney "blessed sales" (Air Force) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titanium eBay, 2nd Edition: A Tactical Guide to Becoming a Millionaire Powerseller (Mass Market Paperback)

this is BY FAR on of the best books I have ever read when it comes to EBAY. It guides you on what to do from the beginning to the end. It gives you so 'POWERSELLER SECRETS' and if you implement these ideas into your business you will succeed. Lastly, this book will even help you if you have another business that does not have anything to do with EBAY. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to start or already has a business with EBAY or online selling. It will deffinately light a fire underneath you to go succeed.