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eBay Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips as well as Tools, First Edition
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The author is most knowledgeable - a must have book for sellers.
Rating: 5 / 5
Rookies only
If you’ve been doing business on eBay for a long time, you don’t need a book like this. Take me as an example; I don’t consider myself an eBay expert. Six year experience will make you have an idea about the name of the head of SafeHarbor and how to remove unwanted negative feedback. The book, in my personal opinion, just scratches the surface without giving you enough inside info that would eventually help you.
For example, Hack #5 Withholding Feedback. It teaches how to lower the probability of being left unwanted feedbacks. It only works when you’re either a contract seller or a power seller. Meaning that you really don’t care about your feedback since you generated about 20 plus feedbacks per day. Ratio is your priority concern. On the other hand, those beginners, who are not high volume sellers but want nothing but doing honest business on eBay and have fun. The tip will impede their speed of cumulating feedbacks and directly hurts their sales. Like I said, the tip just scratches the surface without giving valuable information that will help you ultimately.
Again, the book is not bad but having a wrong name. If the name was “eBay Fundamentals”, it’ll be a 5 star. eBay Hacks? Sorry, one star.
Rating: 2 / 5
Don’t get me wrong. I liked the book, and passed a pleasant hour with it. Very entertaining, good writing style, overall a pleasant experience.
But a more descriptive (and honest) title would have been something like _eBay For Dummies_, or _The Complete Idiot’s Guide to eBay_. There are a smattering of light-weight hacks written in (retch, puke, barf) Perl, but if you’ve bought and/or sold more than ten items on eBay you already know virtually everything that’s in this book.
And the only “hack” (read as: URL to a configuration page) that would’ve made the book worth the money (Hack #49: Opting Out Of Checkout) has been changed by eBay so that it no longer points to a page that will let you kill the ultra-stupid and very annoying “Checkout Now” feature in your auctions.
If you’re looking for an intro/novice guide to eBay, then this is your book. Karp covers everything you need to know about how to buy and sell on eBay, and serves up some excellent advice in an informative and engaging manner.
But if you’re looking for *real* hacks to help you whip eBay into submission, this isn’t the book for you. There are a handful of interesting intellectual exercises in Javascript and (ee-yech!) Perl, but certainly nothing that would warrant a $24.95 cover price.
Rating: 2 / 5
Loved the tips on sniping…although, many buyers can’t stand people who do that. I won a t.v./dvd combo for $30. no shipping because it is in my area and I can pick it up. Also, another tv/dvd/vcr combo toshiba 24″, that I sniped for $197. I paid no shipping because this one I was close enough to pick up, too. I saw this last tv set for over $300 buck in BestBuy…is that a deal or what. I love eBay. And I know for a fact those other tv’s are worth way over $30 bucks, as well. I already have people in my local area who agreed to pay me $85 dollars for it and I haven’t even picked it up, yet. $55 dollar profit without doing much…not bad. I love sniping…it’s fun!
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Rating: 5 / 5
As a seasoned eBayer that is not interested in setting up eBay search robots or other similar hacks, I found most of the advanced tips offered in this book a bit useless. Yet, having experienced a lot of things as a buyer or as a seller, I can see this book being a very useful guide for people who are new to eBay to avoid pitfalls that are quite common and become a more knowledgeable eBayer with time. Overall, quite good, but more geared toward the beginner to intermediate eBayer audience. If you have bought or sold more than 20-30 items using eBay, who knows: you might find it useful. I know I didn’t, for myself.
Rating: 4 / 5