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Getting Started in Internet Auctions
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Author: Alan C. Elliott
List Price: $18.95
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ISBN: 0471380873
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (14 April, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 103,519
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Good overview of the E-bay auctions
Well written and informative. Would recomend as a first book on auctions.Covers some hmtl commands.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Getting Started on eBay
This book focuses almost entirely on eBay. The truly authoritative Internet auction book would cover at least the top three open auctions (eBay, Yahoo! and Amazon) and the top three store auctions (egghead, onsale and ubid). That said, although this is more of a "how to use eBay" book than anything, it does offer great advice on online auctions, including the ins and outs of "professional" auction selling, and Elliot clearly knows his stuff.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Super-easy read will give reader confidence to jump right in
"Getting started in Internet Auctions" is a super-easy read that will give readers enough confidence to jump right into the electronic auction arena. Author Alan Elliott begins the book with an overview of the auction process, then moves into detailed step-by-step descriptions of both the bidding and selling process. Using the popular Ebay.com site for his example, Elliott tells what web addresses to enter into your browser, which software buttons to push and even sometimes when to push them. The best value in this book comes from the wealth of "tricks of the trade:" How to find real bargains on the auction block that others have overlooked. How to time bids in order to maximize winning the sought-after item. How to find items to sell beyond those crammed in the back of your closet. How to avoid getting ripped-off by the top twenty ploys perpetrated by the occasional less-than honest folks in the digital market place As an extra bonus, Elliott introduces readers to a handful of successful web-auction entrepreneurs who are making their living off their Ebay efforts and explains several strategies for mirroring their success. Content like this makes this book a confidence-builder for even a novice Internet user. Anybody interested in making or spending a buck in Internet auctions should put a bid down on this book.
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