Product Description

Explains how to develop a profitable business buying and selling inventory through the world's largest online auction house, drawing on personal experience and sharing helpful advice and insider secrets with readers looking to make money on eBay. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144869 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 317 pages

Customer Reviews

For absolute beginners only
The subtitle of Adam Ginsberg's book promises to tell you "how to kick start your home-based business in thirty days". I'd argue with this: a more accurate title might be "how to stop selling off your own old tat and actually start running a business on eBay some time in the next few months". If you've sold a few things of your own and are really looking to turn that into a business, this book might be useful for you, but if you're already running a business, online or otherwise, you probably know most of this very basic stuff without needing to read a book.

There's very little here that you couldn't figure out from the eBay help pages and your own common sense, but yet some of it manages to be downright dangerous. Mr Ginsberg's comments on international postage, that you might like to "choose" whether to send goods as gifts or not, fail to mention that declaring merchandise as a gift is, in fact, illegal. This is smuggling, not just a matter of personal choice!

If you want to read about trading on eBay, I'd suggest you choose Dan Wilson's books instead.

Buy, Sell and Profit on Ebay
Written in a story type format, this book is effective for those who can absorb information in this manner. The author produces quick points and tips throughout the book in order to help with those new to ebay. I found this book very comprehensive in terms of ebay beginners and it should take you to more advanced levels quickly and effectively. Overall it is an effective book for a reasonable price.