Book Description
It's the undisputed king of Internet auction sites. It's a global bazaar offering a range of goods from Antiques to Zulu Daisies. Cars, clothing, collectibles: you name it, and it's likely that you can find on eBay. But along with the vast selection of goods available, buyers and sellers also encounter all the other elements that markets are known for: tricks and swindlers, overpriced goods, deceptive labeling, small print, recycled items marked as new, and the occasional rare priceless find or undiscovered treasure. Seasoned eBay traders know that to successfully buy and sell within this mega-shopping platform, you need to understand the system. Unfortunately, the secrets of the site are often tightly held by other buyers and sellers seeking a competitive edge. But what if you're a newcomer? Or an experienced trader who wants to make the jump to power buyer or seller? eBay: The Missing Manual gives you the inside information you'll need to become an eBay expert. Buyers will find the most effective ways to find you want and pay prices that are sure to bring a smile to your face. And you'll get authoritative advice on strategic bidding: how to watch for elusive items, time your bids to take the competition by surprise, and--above all--avoid paying more than you ought to. Sellers will get sure-fire tips from eBay veterans who have discovered ways to ramp up their own auctions and sell at the highest possible prices. From the smallest details, such as how to take and post the most effective photos of your goods, to pricing strategies, inventory management, and shipping methods, this user-friendly manual will help you make more money on eBay. Whether you're selling a single item or running fulltime business on the site, you'll find tips to help you do it more effectively. As in any community, problems and disputes arise, and you'll learn how other eBayers resolve such troubles or work around them. eBay: The Missing Manual has gems of wisdom for everyone from total novices to more experienced traders. If you're looking to improve your eBay auction experience, you'll savor the tips and trick revealed in this guided exploration.
Customer Reviews:
Missing Manual on eBay.......2007-07-12
Great book in explaining all the aspects of safe buying and selling items on eBay!!! It has helped us enormously.
Fantastic Book.......2006-09-10
Best book I have read about eBay. Very comprehensive, detailed and well written. Hard work went into producing this book.
It is both for beginners and beyond.
A good introduction, but probably due for an update.......2006-03-19
This is a great starter book for anyone curious about buying or selling on eBay. My only issue is that the book could probably use a refreshing. eBay is a very dynamic property and this book was probably written at least a year ago.
SELL AMERICAN!!.......2006-02-23
Are you one of the millions of people who buy and sell on eBay? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Nancy Conner, has written an outstanding book that will help you get to the site, get registered, and get going.
Conner, begins by showing you everything you need to get going on eBay. Then, she shows you how to bid on eBay auctions with confidence. The author continues by showing you how to search better than the competition and bid smarter. In addition, she then shares other secrets serious shoppers use to prevail on eBay. The author also introduces eBay tips and tricks. Then, the author shows you how to hone in on your strategy for a competitive edge. Next, she shows you how to turn your eBay hobby into a part- or full-time business. Next, the author shows you how to get in on the action and create a sales niche within eBay's specialty auctions. Then, she briefly describes the software that you can use on eBay. The author continues by presenting general and specialized discussion groups, both on and off eBay, that will help you make satisfying connections. Finally, she covers a Learning Center just for newbies, a Help page, interactive help via live chat or e-mail, a centralized Services page, a site map, discussion boards, and more.
After reading this excellent book, you'll be using eBay like an old pro. In other words, this book was will help you ramp up your eBay experience--find more bargains, build better auctions, and close more sales.
Whatever "it" is, you'll find it in the Missing Manual..........2005-11-21
If there was one book I would suggest to anyone venturing into the waters of eBay, it'd end up being this one... eBay: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner. This one covers it all.
Contents:
Part 1 - Buying on eBay: Ready, Set, Shop!; Bidding, Paying, and Following Up; Finding - and Getting - Bargains; Power Buying Strategies
Part 2 - Selling on eBay: Sell Stuff, Make Money; Honing Your Competitive Edge; Going from Hobby to Business; Specialty Selling; Cool Tools for Sellers
Part 3 - Finding Other eBayers and Getting Help; Finding Help
Part 4 - Appendixes: Where to Learn More; HTML for eBayers; Other Auction Sites; Index
Like all other eBay books, this one covers how to buy and sell on eBay. The writing's good, but there'd be nothing special if it stopped there. Where this book earns its keep is when it goes into areas I haven't seen covered in any other book. I've never seen a book go into any detail on other resources to learn about eBay, such as call-in internet radio shows and newsletters. I've never seen a book cover HTML in a small number of pages in order to allow the seller to create better auction pages. There's good coverage on third-party sites that give you more information on how to best price your auctions. There's even material on how to evolve from buying and selling as a hobby to running a business based on eBay. Package all this up with clear writing and numerous screen shots, and you really *have* found the missing eBay manual.
To paraphrase eBay's latest ad campaign... "Whatever you're looking for, you'll find *it* in eBay: The Missing Manual"...
Book Description
This bestselling guide contains the most current information on ordering products and services online, by phone, and by mail at savings of up to 80 percent off the retail price. While finding the best outlets and sources for bargains, consumers will learn how to "shop smart" for every product imaginable-from caviar, gourmet coffee, and clothing to linens, snow tires, and carpeting, and more. Full of large and small businesses that have found innovative ways to save consumers hundreds of dollars on the highest quality goods and best-known brands, this tome of money-saving advice offers tips on how to minimize shipping and handling fees, keep credit card information secure on the Net, and access sites and savings unknown to the common consumer. Meticulously researched and actively tested by 23 successful years on the market, this bargain hunter's classic proves to be a resourceful and indispensable sourcebook for those shoppers who refuse to pay market prices.
Customer Reviews:
Don't waste your time or your money........2004-03-26
I could write a book as long as this one about its deficiencies. My suggestion: buy a copy of a good general wine book, subscribe to a reputable wine publication and make friends with the owner of a local wine shop with whom you can develop a relationship of trust and seek his/her advice.
Useless.......2003-10-23
I have gotten away from writting reviews, but I needed a forum to vent my dislike for this book. Fortunately for me, I borrowed a copy from the library. I cannot imagine paying anything for this book. I do not understand the point of the book. I only used listings that had websites and I found them all to charge as much as a local vendor for their products. How this is supposed to be wholesale is beyond me. For auto parts it lists only one site and they were higher than local stores. They listed a textbook selling site that supposedly charges cost, again I can do much better right here at Amazon. I was hoping to find a book telling me how to buy things at wholesale prices, then I would resell them and make extra money. This book told me how to buy things at retail prices, which I had already figured out on my own. I just cannot understand why this book was published.
A Disapointment.......2003-05-15
This book is not for people looking for serious wholesaling.
All this information can be found by doing a search on the internet. I found very few true wholesalers. I have been able to find much better pricings at alternate sites. Find a different book to buy if you're truly looking for real wholesale companies.
If your looking for true WHOLESALE, don't buy this book.......2002-12-27
If you are looking for BARGAINS and you are incapable or just impatient to use a search engine like Google or Yahoo, buy this book. If you are looking to buy at WHOLESALE (as in having a re-seller's liscense as I was), DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. The word "wholesale" was greatly misused in the title of this book and interestingly enough, when I purchased this book (thankfully on a bargain rack) at my local book store, the lady told me that the name had changed beginning in 2003.....interesting.
It's worth the price.......2002-06-28
I paid all of about $8 for this book and, within a week, had made more than my money back in savings on purchases. Although the book misses several of my favorite bargain websites - so it only gets 4 stars instead of 5 - it lists a huge number more that I was previously unaware of.
The book is conveniently organized into sections on furniture, clothing, sporting goods etc, with a page devoted to each website or catalog under each heading. Given the huge number of websites and catalogs out there, it's useful to have a book like this to help sift through them.
Book Description
Shopping. For some, it is a veritable sport. For others, it is a dreaded experience which they try to avoid at all costs. No matter which group you fit in to, chances are when you do shop you're looking for a bargain. Bargain Hunter's Secrets to Online Shopping is your one-stop-shop for finding the best bargains on the Internet in over 35 shopping categories. Over 1000 of the best Web sites for online bargain shopping are listed in this comprehensive, how-to guide. Nervous about making purchases online? You'll also learn how to identify reputable merchants, how to shop safely and the best ways to pay for an online purchase. Let your fingers do the walking through this guide and the world's largest shopping mall!
Download Description
Online shopping is booming in the U.S. Seventy-seven percent of all Internet users have bought at least one product online. It is expected that by 2007 online sales will reach $100 billion dollars. There are several books on the market geared for these online shoppers, but unlike those books that are nothing more than directories of online merchants, Bargain Hunter's Secrets to Online Shopping is a how-to guide containing everything a consumer needs to quickly and efficiently find bargains on the Web. The title will also include a comprehensive listing of the best sites for online bargain shopping, organized by category, with helpful 0-5 star ratings. Some of the how-to topics that readers will learn are: * How to make a purchase online * How to identify reputable merchants-and avoid disreputable ones * How to shop safely * The best way to pay for a purchase * How to find the lowest prices, the best discounts, and the biggest rebates * How to research purchases before you buy * How to use comparison shopping sites to search for bargains * Which online stores offer the best bargains on specific types of merchandise
Customer Reviews:
Valuable Resource For OnLine Shopping.......2005-01-31
This book is all about how to shop on line and search for bargains. You will learn valuable secrets, find online coupons and find the list of more than 1,000 online merchants.
Chapter 5 is about hunting for the lowest price for an item that you wish to purchase. The top five price comparison sites are: BizRate, Froogle, mySimon, Shopping.com and Yahoo! Shopping. Other sites are: AimLower, CheapestRate, CompareSite, FindAll, PriceMix and EveryBookstore.
Chapter 6 is about finding rebates, coupons, promotions and cash-back programs. Places to find online cash-back programs are: askmrrebates, ebates, morerebates, paydrop, qdeals, rebateshare and simplerebates. Places to find online coupons are bargainboardwalk, couponmountain, slickdeals, totaldeals and ecoupons.
George MacPherson Reid (Hamden)
starts from scratch.......2004-10-15
Miller gives a nice, very lightly technical guide to effective online shopping. To someone like you, maybe, who has never bought online, it can seem like a forbidding new world. So what Miller does is step through the fundamentals. Starting with a chapter giving a general guide to what you can expect at many online websites. One key thing you should realise is that the payment by credit card is really no different from traditional real world usage. Nor, despite everything you might read about online fraud, is it any riskier. But he does also go into describing those frauds.
He also gives brief but effective coverage of major online sites. Like Amazon and eBay. On the subject of using eBay, you can find entire books devoted to this. Miller's is more succinct, and is more than adequate to get you started on eBay, if you so desire.
The second half of the book is an appendix of useful websites, grouped by their main interests. A little mundane to experienced surfers. But perhaps not to you.
Average customer rating:
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Bargain Shopping Online
Kate Shoup Welsh
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill
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Bargain-Shopping Online is the only thing you need to ensure a little money stays in the bank this holiday season. It's no longer necessary to spend hours in department stores drifting through thousands of racks of clothing, shoes, houseware items, etc, because this book contains over 1,500 of the best places to bargain-shop on the Web. Written by an expert on the Internet who can provide the details on the retails, the book consists of hundreds of entries of the best places to find the best deals on everything from apparel to jewelry, to garden supplies and housewares. The book points you in the direction of the most valuable money-saving web sites - and rates the delivery costs and ease of navigation! And just as valuable are it's ratings of virtual storefronts, this book directs you to the "bargain basement" of online auctions. Plus, this handy guide comes in a very unique and resourceful format: The trim size is very similar to that of Zagat's, with easy thumb references along the outer margins, and fun icons that reflect the expense of delivery costs and the quality of navigation. Organized to a Macy's or Bloomingdale's, with large general categories ultimately separated into several specific areas of merchandise. There are 13 broad categories: Apparel, Baby Stuff, Books, Computers, Electronics, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Games and Toys, Health and Beauty, Hobbies and Collectibles, Home and Garden, Music and Video, Sports and Fitness. Plus two appendices about General Auction Sites and Discount Stores on the Web.
Customer Reviews:
Outdated and Immature Internet Site Recommendations.......2001-01-06
Published in 2000, this booklet is already, alas, outdated. For example, out of 15 searches, 2 sites were "unavailable" ...4 were out of business... several had pages "in process"... one was too pale to read... some were impossible to navigate or didn't know how to respond "this product is unavailable."
In short, out of 15 sites, only one recommendation was "professional." (yahoo.com)
Some excellent sites were missing, like ewolfs for antiques.
There is no index and many entries are simply repeated under different headings, so in fact there are fewer than 1600 recommended sites.
Sorry, Ms. Welsh and McGraw-Hill! I know you worked on this for a long time... maybe you can publish another (indexed)edition when internet businesses stabilize.
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Shopping & Travel: Safe and easy booking, buying and bargains online (AOL)
Steve Shipside
Manufacturer: Capstone
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ASIN: 1841121789 |
Book Description
Shopping and Travel puts the world at your fingertips. Want to save money on your next car? Or find cheap tickets for a family holiday? This guide will show you. Written in a friendly, easy-to-understand style and packed with useful tips, websites, and shortcuts, Shopping and travel will help you discover the best of AOL and the World Wide Web.
Open the book and discover how to:
- Save money by finding incredible bargains online
- Shop safely and securely using AOL's Certified Merchants
- Find the best fares for flights and accomodations worldwide
- Discover last-minute deals and discounted package holidays
- Save time, money and so much more!
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Shopping on the Internet and Beyond!: Your Guide to the Biggest Bargains and Best Places to Shop Online
Jaclyn Easton
Manufacturer: Coriolis Group Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1883577330 |
Book Description
Is the first book ever published about shopping online. Covers over 1,000 shopping sites on America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy. Saves readers over $3,000 in "Exclusive Deal" coupons. Is not a directory, but a guide to the best online shopping. Saves connect charges by directing people to exactly where they want to go. Is a great reference resource for anyone considering their own cyber-storefront.
Book Description
WE TAKE THE GUESSWORK OUT OF ONLINE SHOPPING
Attention shoppers! Tens of thousands of Internet retailers are clamoring for your business, but you stand a greater chance of being struck by lightning than of finding the best online shops out there. Now get ready to be struck by lightning over and over again, because you hold in your hands the first edition of the most complete, authoritative guide to online shopping that has ever been available—
thepurplebook™.
Here are more than 1,600 of the best Internet shopping sites— selected, tested, and organized for your information and convenience. Every site in this book has been poked, prodded, scrutinized, and held to a rigorous set of standards. For every store reviewed here, six or seven were left out because they simply were not up to par.
Those sites that are featured have demonstrated superior qualities of product selection, consumer service, and/or price, covering a full range of tastes and interests.
thepurplebook, at long last, makes it easy to find the right something for yourself and everyone on your shopping list.
Find vital information and the most exciting sites for these essential categories:
Art & Collectibles
Charity
Entertainment
Epicurean
Gadgets & Electronics
Health & Beauty
Home & Garden
Lifestyles & Megastores
Maternity
Minors
Men’s Apparel
Pets
Seniors
Shoes & Accessories
Sports & Outdoors
Stationery & Gifts
Travel
Weddings
Women’s Apparel
Customer Reviews:
Finally, A Guide on Shopping for the new Millenium.......2004-02-14
It's scary to think shopping can be made a lot easier than it already is. With the internet, now shopping is so easy you can find almost everything in a matter of minutes, depending on how fast your computer loads. Hillary Mendelsohn's book is nothing new, since there has been directories of internet companies before, but she does present it in a manner shoppers are more used to, rather than in technogeek language. Another book worth exploring if you are looking for internet shopping: Stretch Your Dollars by Buying Wholesale. Saving money so that you can buy more is always exceptional, isn't it? My wife thinks so! Thanks to the internet, she now has more stores to shop til her fingers drop.
great book, awfully familiar.......2003-12-20
thepurplebook is a great book for those who don't get out to read Cosmo, Glamour,InStyle, YM, W, GQ, Better Homes and Garden and basically any periodical currently printed in the U.S. or abroad. The term "authorship" is so loose these days. Sure the sites are great, if you can find one that works. We all know how website have a tendency to die online. However, I found some real gems. Thanks InStyle! It's really too difficult to decipher (and the print is too small) for the elderly. And the gen-exers like myself, really don't have the cash to spend $200 for a handbag or pay the large amount of money alot of these sites are asking for their goods and services. I probably wouldn't buy thepurplebook, instead I'd pick it up at your local library.
FANTASTIC!!!.......2003-12-11
This is a terrific, well-researched and well-organized resource, one of the best guides I have ever read. THEPURPLEBOOK starts where search engines leave off, helping to get through the clutter. Cheers to Ms. Mendelsohn for a terrific book. A great stocking-stuffer. I can't wait for next year's edition!
All things to all people?.......2003-11-24
This is a rather Zagattish commentary (unfortunately without the point score) on the 1600 or so sites the book tries to cover.
The real value and unfortunately the (slight) failing of the book is that it tries to be too broad. In addition not everything in the book is perfect. I spotted some slight inaccuracies in some websites that I am a regular customer of. Secondly, the narrative is simply too Categorical in its comments, and one suspects that a lot of insight may be colored by the perspective garned from the particular website itself and not through a real user experience. Unlike Zagat, there is very little of the equivocation that may suggest the particular (shopping) website could have failings, or that it may not be so good. Indeed, it would appear that virtually all comments about each (shopping) website highlights the positive ...
Nevertheless, this opus provides the reader with a valuable trove of information. I personally found the epicurean section as well as the stationery/gifts section most useful, although that might reflect my personal biases. While I also question the breakdown of the shopping categories in the book, but on the whole, I recommend it, and think that it is by far the best in its class.
I'm slightly surprised that Amazon did not put out sample pages (at least of the writing of this review) as that would allow customers to have a much better feel for the book. In any case, here's my input:
Opening a random page in women's wear includes the following sites in (continued) alphabetical order:
1) Peruvian connection
2) Pieceunique.com
3) Purpleskirt.com
4) Ravinstyle.com
5) Sauvagewear.com
6) Seamlessbody.com
And just in case you were wondering what they thought about Amazon? Amazon appears twice. The first is under the segment "Entertainment" (which includes books). The entire spiel is as follows:
"The first name in Internet retail has come a long way from its origins as strictly a bookseller. Its expanision started, logically, with music and videos, but has gone on to plenty else. But it's a continued master of entertainment media that keeps us coming back. Here you may listen to music samples, read book samples and read customer reviews of just about anything. There are plenty of reasons these guys are No. one, and you probably don't want to read about them here. Suffice to say, if for some strange reason you've never visited, check it out"
Here's one more random example from www.clambakeco.com:
"Clambakes to travel. When it's time for a good old-fashion clambake, you can do no better than to visit this new-fangled speciality retailer. What's a clambake? Well, as these guys have it, its a shindig that involves steamed lobster, mussels, vegetables, Portugese sausage and of course clams. Yes it sounds like a lot to prepare, but that's the great thing about this site: they send you a pre-packed steamer pot ... You simply add water, put over a flame and 20 min or so later you have a full fledged clamback for as any people as you need. It couldn't be easier, and you get to keep the pot."
A Guide for the Shopaholic!!.......2003-11-11
When I first found out about the Purple Book I was very excited, I love to shop and to find unique buys and often don't run across great websites because they are hard to find. This is a great resource across many categories to help you find what you need online and to discover some great sites for shopping.
The one aspect of the book that I didn't like was that it listed sites that are very known an common such as some brick & mortar stores or very promient online stores (Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ebay, etc...) I was hoping there would be more focus on stores that were unique and off the beaten path but I have found some sites that I never knew of before and it is a great resource so I would highly recommend this for anyone that loves to shop as much as I do!!
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