This bok wil help you determine whether selling seriously on eBay is right for you and, if it is, how to go about it in a profitable way. Aplying just one of the recommendations in this bok can save you many times the purchase price. The author has been through an eBay consignment busines as a partner in a startup and as a sole proprietor of an eBay Drop Off Store. The recommendations are intended especialy for consignment sellers, but most apply equaly to other forms of inventory sourcing. Follow his advice and you can have an eBay busines without having to learn his lesons the hard way.. This bok has ben revised to reflect the changes that eBay and PayPal made in Spring 2008
EAN: 9781434837059
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Should I buy the eBay Consignment Selling & Drop Off Stores: The Unofficial How-To Guide to Getting Started, Making Money, and Retaining Your Sanity?
One of three books I highly recommend to get when researching eBay selling and how to start an eBay consignment store.
I liked this book a lot. It's another book on how to make money using eBay as the backbone to your small retail business. More accurately - it is a book on owning and operating an eBay consignment (or trading assistant) business. It has the following "13" chapters:
1. Is consignment selling on eBay something that should work for you?
2. Where are you getting items to sell on eBay?
3. Opening an eBay consignment store
4. Software and technology regarding your store
5. The mechanics of the business in general
>>6. Intake
>>7. Photos
>>8. Description
>>9. Launching auctions
>>10. Auctions and Post-action
>>11. Paying consignors
A. eBay's changes as eBay describes them
B. Feedback, the old way
There seem to be quite a number of eBay specialists who want to share their knowledge and expertise with the masses. The author of this book seems to be another one of them. I must say he has done a splendid job explaining how he founded his own eBay trading assistant (consignment) business in northern NJ, and ran it for a few years before selling it because it didn't quite fit his lifestyle requirements.
A little over a year ago I read and reviewed a similar tome to the instant one. See "The eBay Entrepreneur" (ISBN: 141958328X). If you are interested in buying or starting your own eBay consignment store, then I highly recommend you get the instant book being reviewed along with The eBay Entrepreneur. They cover the same material but give you two different (but similar) perspectives and information. You will hedge your bets in being successful if you use both books to help you put together a business plan and learn the tricks and secrets of the trade. You'll also be able to make reasonable and somewhat accurate financial projections when writing your business plan.
Another book about selling on eBay that I recently read and reviewed was "eBay 101" (ISBN: 0977240630). It's author also fits the category of having been there and done that and then wrote the book to share his knowledge and experiences. I highly recommend you get eBay 101 along with the book being reviewed to do your due diligence in determining if eBay retail is something for you to pursue. All three books point out that online retail sales can require a lot of your time if you are looking to make a lot of money. And that a reasonable living can be made doing it. But don't expect to get rich. 5 stars!
Excellent Book!
This book gives you in-depth analysis and step-by-step instructions on how to open and operate an eBay store, and covers every aspect of this relatively new type of business. It is done with a cool sense of humor, in a very non-boring, entertaining manner!
A must-read for eBay sellers
Dohrn's guide to eBay consignment and selling offers practical, everyday advice to the beginner and experienced eBayer alike. He takes the reader through all necessary steps in planning an eBay business. Every question is answered in this book, from how to choose a location of your store to how to deal with pesky foreign buyers.
A must read for eBay consignment sellers.
If you type in the word eBay on the Amazon book search panel, you'll get upwards of 14,000 hits. That's a lot of books. But after reading what seems to me, about half of them, allow me to recommend this one. There are a couple of very good books on eBay consignment selling, and if you are considering adding consignment items to your product line, read this book first! Consignment selling is a tough road, not for everyone. Here is advice from a drop off store owner who's tells his story in an educational, practical, and a refreshing opinionated (eBay might not approve) way. Get straight talk from someone who's been there, done that. Good stuff for would be eBay consignment sellers. In eBay lingo...AAAAA++++++
