Product Description

Secrets of the eBay PowerSellers offers power user tips for any serious eBayer, sharing the wisdom of eBay’s upper echelon of sellers for those aspiring to join their ranks!

Readers won’t have to wade through a lot of prose to extract information. The authors plan to interview scores of PowerSellers; from hundreds and hundreds of insider tips and secrets, they'll choose the best ones and present them cogently, authoritatively, and with a dash of entertainment.

Readers will be able to quickly zero in on the information they need and use it immediately.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #365589 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover

Learn from Hundreds of Top eBay Sellers

Go beyond the basics and learn the trade secrets that have propelled the savviest entrepreneurs into eBay PowerSellers--those earning $1,000 to $150,000 per month or more through eBay auctions. Sharpen your skills with this healthy blend of time-tested business principles and the advice of real PowerSellers who share with you how they have achieved success. Get valuable advice on finding little-known sources for products, advertising your wares, managing inventory, collecting payments, keeping records, shipping, running an eBay Store, and much more. Plus, learn the keys to keeping your customers so happy they’ll shop with you again and again. eBay PowerSeller Secrets: Insider Tips from eBay’s Most Successful Sellers will help you effectively run a store that never closes, sells globally, and offers virtually unlimited income potential.

• Tap the more than 100 million registered users that make eBay the leading online marketplace
• Determine what sells best on eBay and why
• Find little-known sources for products
• Learn about tools that will make your eBay business more efficient and professional
• Develop auctions that create high traffic and product demand
• Handle end-of-sale payments and protect yourself from fraud and loss
• Manage auctions, inventories, and communications effectively
• Provide superior customer service to get an edge over the competition
• Track incidentals, deductions, expenses, and other tax-related items
• Automate to ease processes such as listings, managing images, e-mail, and shipping
• Learn from hundreds of PowerSellers what it takes to succeed on eBay

Debra and Brad Schepp have written about cutting-edge technologies for more than 20 years. They are the authors of nine books, and their work has been featured in publications such as Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, and U.S. News and World Report. They have been online since 1984, and buying and selling on eBay since 1999.

Technical Advisor Michael Kaiser is an Instructor with eBay University. An eBay seller since 1997, Michael is the bestselling co-author of The Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything.

About the Author
Brad and Debra Schepp (Middletown, MD) have blended their interests in technology and pop culture throughout their careers as journalists and authors. For more than 20 years they've written about cutting-edge technologies and how those technologies are changing our lives.

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Customer Reviews

More for ebay.com than ebay.co.uk
Don't get me wrong this book has some good tips for people who want to become a powerseller but about 30-50% of the book is aimed at ebay.com which means that you can't use that information. It refers to a lot of american sites for reference. That's the only disappointing bit, when you get to a bit that you can do it is very helpful!

Best Book For eBay Selling
I agree with the previous reviewer that there are a few links here more appropriate for U.S. sellers, but the great majority of the information applies to all sellers. The authors cover everything from sourcing product to shipping and customer service. They gathered the best tips from a lot of PowerSellers so what's here isn't just their own opinion. There are also profiles of PowerSellers which can be inspiring.

Recommended Book
This book is a must for all those who aspire to power seller status on ebay. So many books provide a boring account of the help pages anyone can easily access on ebay itself whereas this book bypasses all of that assuming you already know the basic stuff. It offers invaluable tips throughout and after each chapter a very useful checklist of what you should now know and already be putting into practice. All of the information provided is offered from years of experience by two seasoned ebay sellers together with case studies of real life power sellers which are truly inspiring. Although the book is American the information provided is invaluable and can still be applied for those who wish to become a Power Seller in the UK.