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eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income [Paperback]

Steve Weber (Author)
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Publication Date: July 21, 2011
With today's rocky economy and unsteady job market, there's never been a better time to earn extra cash online. And now there's a new book that guides you each step of the way: eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days.

Access the world's biggest marketplace, right from your own home. You'll learn how to:
  • Register at eBay and PayPal
  • Start part-time and expand your income when you're ready
  • Find great inventory at low prices
  • Auction to the highest bidder or sell at fixed prices.
  • Identify niche markets for big profits
  • Get tax deductions for your eBay home-based business
  • Guard against scammers and rip-off artists
Starting a business on eBay is perhaps your fastest route to the American Dream. The payoff can be high, and the barriers to entry are low. The world's most popular online marketplace, eBay has millions of registered buyers waiting to do business with you. For less than $100 and very little risk, you can start an eBay venture with profit margins rivaling those of any business. Exactly how much money you earn depends mostly on how much effort you put into your new enterprise and how efficiently you operate it

In this new eBay guide, you'll see:

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CONTENTS

~ INTRODUCTION

How eBay works |Before you begin | Get more help

READY, SET, SELL!

Register your business | Sell your item | Build your listing | Nail down details | Plan your auction | Make a picture worth $1,000 | Take great eBay photos | Get specific | Write a top-notch item description | Sell like a pro | Price your item | The auction alternative: fixed prices | Upgrade your listings | The best time to list | Top 10 reasons your auction stinks | Use My eBay

PROFIT WITH A NICHE

Win with niche selling | Cash in on collectibles | Trust, but authenticate | How to recognize fake autographs

GET MORE GREAT INVENTORY

Find overlooked gems at estate sales | Live auctions | Get merchandise on eBay | Get merchandise on consignment | Become a trading assistant

EXPAND YOUR BUSINESS

Create your 'About Me' page | Cross-promotions | Open an eBay store | Set up shop | Promote your store | Why many would-be PowerSellers fail

PREVENT PROBLEM CUSTOMERS

Be a feedback fanatic | Keep a good reputation | Communicate with a packing slip | Leave feedback for buyers | Handle customers right | Unpaid item dis-putes | Prevent unpaid items | Work with PayPal | Set your payment preferences | Take payments

AVOID SCAMS AND FRAUD | Spot shady buyers | Recognize predators | Beware of hoax e-mails | Avoid drop-ship, wholesale scams | Recognize crooks and middlemen | Know a fake from the real McCoy

PACK IT UP, MOVE IT OUT

Ship efficiently | Communicate when you ship | Pare shipping costs to the bone | Sell Get It Fast Items | Handle delivery snafus | Print online postage | Organize your inventory

SQUEEZE MORE PROFITS

Get efficient with fulfillment software | Software for media sellers | Research prices wirelessly | Market research tools

STAY ON EBAY'S GOOD SIDE

More eBay rules | Prohibited and restricted items | More eBay no-nos | Stay on Uncle Sam's good side | Your business's legal structure | Local ordinances

MAKE FRIENDS, SELL MORE

Profit with stunts and gimmicks | Tag, you're it! | Get buzz | Making friends on MySpace | Communicate on MySpace | Work it good | MySpace best practices | Save time on MySpace | Network some more | Work the net | Marketing with widgets

GET YOUR OWN PLACE

Get involved | Master your domain | Build blocks | Bait search engines | Be dense | Lengthen your lease | Wait for results | Earn side revenue | Use social search | Get vertical

GET MORE FREE ADVERTISING

Bank articles | Avoid backfires | Get really simple | Protect your content | Blog for business | Discover blogs | Connect with readers | Value input | Get style | Get raw material | Write your posts

PAY FOR ADVERTISING

Use Google AdWords | Using adMarketplace, Clickriver | See the future of PPC

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Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Praise for Steve Weber's eBay 101:

"I wish I'd had this book when I started on eBay. It's a virtual encyclopedia of tips for selling successfully on eBay-information that takes years to learn."

-- Jane Corn, eBay Top Reviewer

"A street-smart guide to selling on eBay!"

-- Ina Steiner, Editor, AuctionBytes.com

"Ideal for the beginner and useful for the experienced eBayer, too--a gold mine of valuable and up-to-date information!"

-- John Landahl, author of "Estate Sale Prospecting for Fun and Profit with Craigslist and eBay"

"What I really like about eBay 101 is that Steve has actually done this stuff. Too many people claim to be "experts" who haven't really sold that much. eBay 101 comes from someone with real-life experience making money on eBay."

-- Skip McGrath, eBay Gold PowerSeller and author of "Titanium eBay"

"Anyone who is interested in online retailing should do themselves a favor: get a copy of eBay 101 and read it cover to cover."

-- Jeff Lippincott, Top Reviewer, Amazon.com

Product Details

  • Paperback: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Weber Books (July 21, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0977240630
  • ISBN-13: 978-0977240630
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Steve Weber
Steve Weber is the author of "Etsy 101: Sell Your Crafts on Etsy, the DIY Marketplace for Handmade, Vintage and Crafting Supplies."

Other books by Steve:

"Barcode Booty: How I found and sold $2 million of 'junk' on eBay and Amazon, And you can, too, using your phone."

"The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site"

"eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days"

"Sell on Amazon: A Guide to Amazon's Marketplace, Seller Central, and Fulfillment by Amazon Programs"

"Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity through Social Networking"

"ePublish: Self-Publish Fast and Profitably for Kindle, iPhone, CreateSpace and Print on Demand"

Steve is a native of Charleston, W.Va. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and a Journalism graduate of West Virginia University. Steve lives in Falls Church, Va., with his wife and their young children.

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136 of 141 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book from cover to cover, amazed (and wishing I'd had this one with me when I STARTED on Ebay). What author Steve Weber has done with this book is to gather the information that can take sellers years to learn and created a virtual seller's encyclopedia of tips for selling successfully on Ebay.

What this means to you - the potential seller on Ebay - is the chance to hit the ground running, avoid embarrassing blunders and come across as a professional seller, minimizing fumbles and keeping your customers happy and your profit margin...extremely profitable.

For the relatively modest price of this book, you'll get the expertise of an Ebay seller who has racked up $1.4 million dollars in sales to 130,000 customers. I"m surprised by how much he was willing to disclose, the kind of secrets many sellers hold near and dear.

Not only that but Weber had the wisdom to let other top sellers and users weigh in. They have written specific articles on such important areas as taking great photos, writing top descriptions, 10 major auction mistakes and how to milk market niches for maximum profits (rare fishing lures, vintage clothing or old video games are some examples.

Before you create your first listing, Weber suggests you do some research that I'd call "due diligence" or "taking a trial run to get a feel for Ebay." How do you do this? By being a buyer and actually bidding on items or using the Buy it Now feature to purchase 10 items. I think this is brilliant strategy, allowing potential sellers to get a feel for the buyer's end of things. You'll get a feel for dealing with someone you've probably never met face to face and the sense of novelty that comes from using an online auction site. Once you've been in a buyer's shoes, you have instant knowledge that should make you a better seller.

I wish I had the space to describe all the sections and related material in this book. From registering as a user to timing your auction, expanding your business and finding inventory, Weber explains every aspect of the Ebay selling process.

Consider this: he started out with $80, bought four bags of items and doubled his investment after selling only half of those items! From there he went on to sell enough to move from a tiny one-bedroom apartment to a nice house, all by himself. He makes a convincing case for the fact that if he can do it, so can you. I'm convinced, especially since I've used similar techniques and I know they work - and work well.

PLEASE NOTE: I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing another of Mr. Weber's books, Plug Your Book. I'm including that information here for full disclosure but I have not ever been paid for any reviews of these books and my opinion is expressly my own. Both books are wonderful. If you are a writer, bookseller or interested in exploring ways to market yourself, books or sell on Ebay, Mr. Weber's books are "must reads". eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days
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85 of 87 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a really good book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. And I think anyone who is interested in online retailing would do themselves a favor to get a copy and read it cover to cover. The author is an online retailer. And he has written four books over the past couple of years. So he's an author, too. All four books have covered aspects of his online used book business he started not too long ago. For some reason he becomes expert at doing things and then he writes books on what he has discovered works in business. This book is no exception.

There are 15 chapters in this book:

1. Introduction
2. Ready, set, sell!
3. Profit with a niche
4. Get more great inventory
5. Expand your business
6. Prevent problem customers
7. Avoid scams and fraud
8. Pack it up, move it out
9. Squeeze more profits
10. Stay on eBay's good side
11. Stay on Uncle Sam's good side
12. Make friends, sell more
13. Get your own place
14. Get more free advertising
15. Pay for advertising

I've skimmed a number of books on eBay retailing over the past couple of years. Unfortunately I haven't read too many I liked. Most of them seem to be hyping eBay as some great place to make a fortune. The instant book being reviewed is different. The author tells us early on that $40,000 a year on your own is a reasonable figure to expect selling on eBay.

Although I'm not a big fan of online retailing, I think many people can benefit from getting involved with it. EBay makes it easy for someone not self-employed to dabble in retail sales while holding down a full time job. And if that person finds a niche that can be made profitable, then that person very well may become self-employed at some point in the future and quit their day job.

Ebay also is a wonderful tool for existing bricks and mortar retail shops to use when slow moving inventory needs to be moved quickly or fazed out. And then eBay can also be used to support a service business known in some circles as an eBay Trading Assistant Shop where products are sold on consignment.

This book is not just about eBay retailing. It is also about self-promotion and promoting one's business and products online. And chapters 12, 14 and 15 regarding online marketing and how to do it to help your eBay sales is probably what makes this book especially unique as far as eBay books go. The other two books about eBay that I have reviewed on Amazon are 1000 Best eBay Powerseller Secrets (ISBN: 1402208057), and The eBay Entrepreneur (ISBN: 141958328X). Each book covers the topic a little differently and comes from a different perspective. If you are seriously interested in becoming an eBay retailer, then I HIGHLY recommend you get copies of all three books and devour them. 5 stars!
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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful
A great learing tool. January 31, 2008
Format:Paperback
My husband and I have purchased and sold on ebay a few times but never realized until reading Mr.Weber's book eBay 101, how little we actually knew about the process of buying and selling on ebay. None of the chat rooms designed for this very thing have provided half of Mr. Weber's Knowledge and suggestions. We now realize our past mistakes and are very anxious to put into motion our newly gained knowledge. This book will definitely help us earn more money by selling on ebay without being so confused!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Anne Schmidt
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The information was good and some of the ideas, but I can't see how it will make me a power seller in 90 days. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Bronxtalent
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This book is definitely a good start for the beginner. It gives a basic introduction of most of the situations that come with having an Ebay business. Good read for the beginner
Published 2 months ago by Cori T. Coates
Half Good for New Sellers & Half Outdated
I'm new to Ebay as I have started selling my moms collection of dolls and other collectibles. When viewing the ebay forums the general attitude is very poor towards ebay as they... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jeffrey C. Meade
Outdated and only for novice sellers..
I have bought and sold on eBay for 5-6 years - nothing significant, just a few items a month. Now I had made the decision to expand on eBay and become more involved. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Derek
Good beginner book.
I read this cover to cover and can say that it has the basics for beginners. I have used ebay for a while but I am still a beginner. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Sherry Wilde
Unhappy with Kindle version
I was excited to read this book, but was sorely disappointed with the formatting. It is awful. Makes the book difficult and confusing to read. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lady Pandora
Well worth it
I have always wanted to sell off my stuff on Ebay and this book is a very good way to start. I found it very easy to follow. Now I need to start putting it into practice
Published 4 months ago by anthea Michaelis
Very Basic
One big advertisement for Ebay. And assorted over websites referenced. This book is great for newbies - very basic. Read more
Published 4 months ago by SanDiegoJesse
Outdated information.
I choose this book over similar titles because of its 2011 publication date on the most recent edition. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Rebecca
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