Mon, 29 Aug 2005
Ebay Hacks
David A. Karp, eBay Hacks, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly
People tell me that eBay is great; that they sell are their
unwanted equipment, utencils, and relatives there. I've not had their
luck. Most of the time I've tried to use it I seem to end up with
bottomfeeders, who after a lot of hemming, hawing, and ffaffing about
decide that about 0.05% of a reasonable secondhand value would be
about the maximum they could possibly offer.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong so I looked into this book to
try and find out what it was. There is a lot of stuff here, ranging
from reputation issues and how to handle them to the minutae of
bidding and selling. If you fancy yourself as an expert eBay trader
then you certainly can't go wrong poring through all 428 pages of
it (without the index). There are plenty of scripts along the way as
well to get all sorts of tasks done.
I don't think there's any particular secret to dealing on eBay
though. There are a lot of bottom feeders there.
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