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Summary: This Book is Perfection
Review: As a five year seller on ebay who helps others get started on ebay, The ebay Bible will be the book I will recommend to get them started. It's a step by step, easily understood instructional guide with plenty of graphics. Even being a five year seller I picked up some great tips. I only wish something like this had been available when I was new. I very much enjoyed the humor and personal stories. While I may not agree with 'everything' written in the book, everyone has to make their own decisions in how they want to conduct their transactions. This is the perfect guide to get one started. This is the best book ever written for ebay users. Will make my teaching much easier and a handy reference for me when needed.
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Summary: OK, but not great - there are better eBay books out there
Review: For something that bills itself as the Bible, totally comprehensive, and everything you need to know, this book left me feeling a little left out. It doesn't offer enough coverage on the topics I really want to know about (getting the best price for my items, trusting your buyer and seller) and too much on areas that are pretty self explantory (seller rankings for one). The tone of the book is lacking as well, with a dry, almost hokey presenation. I found myself talking back to the book at times, in frustration. All in all, this is not the best eBay book out there - eBay The Smart Way or one of the EBay dummies books get that nod.
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Summary: If you can turn on your computer, you don't need this!
Review: How can you sign onto your computer and not be able to follow the menu driven eBay sign up and sell stuff on the web site? You really need to look at a book that is showing you the same thing that's on your screen? Believe me all eBay wants to do is get sellers on, so they can sell, so eBay can grab a share of the profit. This book is really a bunch of dribble about how great eBay is and how it changes your life. No metion of eBay supporting the sellers only; no buyer protection, and eBay's total lack of care about fraud and no buying customer support. Is this snake oil salesman getting a kickback from eBay!? But this book will change "Griff's" life...cause there is a sucker born every nanosecond. Like the bloated shipping and handling fees on eBay, you'll get nothing for something with this pile of pulp.
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Summary: If you can turn on your computer, you don't need this!
Review: How can you sign onto your computer and not be able to follow the menu driven eBay sign up and sell stuff on the web site? You really need to look at a book that is showing you the same thing that's on your screen? Believe me all eBay wants to do is get sellers on, so they can sell, so eBay can grab a share of the profit. This book is really a bunch of dribble about how great eBay is and how it changes your life. No metion of eBay supporting the sellers only; no buyer protection, and eBay's total lack of care about fraud and no buying customer support. Is this snake oil salesman getting a kickback from eBay!? But this book will change "Griff's" life...cause there is a sucker born every nanosecond. Like the bloated shipping and handling fees on eBay, you'll get nothing for something with this pile of pulp.
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Summary: Long winded - and not enough of what I needed
Review: I have just finished reading The Official Ebay Bible, written by James "Griff" Griffith and all I can say is, "Bravo!!!". Never have I read anything related to Ebay that was this informative, insightful, and humorous. Thank you for the easy to follow instructions, the inspiring true stories, and the attention to detail. Every Ebay user (buyer or seller) should have this book right next to their computer. I loved Ebay before, but now they have a fan for life.
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Summary: Thank you Mr. Griffith!!
Review: I have just finished reading The Official Ebay Bible, written by James "Griff" Griffith and all I can say is, "Bravo!!!". Never have I read anything related to Ebay that was this informative, insightful, and humorous. Thank you for the easy to follow instructions, the inspiring true stories, and the attention to detail. Every Ebay user (buyer or seller) should have this book right next to their computer. I loved Ebay before, but now they have a fan for life.
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Summary: Long on Process, Coy on Fees, Formatted for the Nearsighted
Review: I picked up this book to find out Quickly how to sell something on eBay, and what it would cost me. I found out eventually how to sell, but not the cost, and not quickly. I began by browsing the inspirational stories of people who'd sold all they wanted and more and of people who'd bought an item they'd been searching for for years. Then I went to the beginning to learn about eBay. But the beginning is geared for people who are turning on their computers for the first time: what is email? what is a browser? "Clicking a link will move you forward to that page" etc... So I skipped to the section on how to sell. Again I found myself swamped with basic info. For example, Griffith devotes several pages to explaining step by step the sort of registration process most people have gone through dozens of times on other sites. Then he goes into digital photography for 36 pages. All useful, no doubt, to someone who has decided to sell. But not to someone who wants some idea of PRICE. I went to the index to look up "fees". I found three entries, two of which (Final Value Fee and Turbolister) were arcane and of no use to me. The other was "listings". Thinking I'd found what I wanted, I quickly flipped to p.273, where I found, not a schedule of fees nor a percentage of any kind, but rather a tiny reproduction of a web page with tiny numbers representing the fees for a ceramic jug pictured on the previous page. What is going on here? Is eBay shy about money? Are they ashamed of charging fees and making money? Do they want to imply in their "Official Bible" that their services are free? Did Griffith neglect to put in this information because it was not upbeat enough for his enthusiastic compendium of online auctioneering? Another annoying feature is the vast amount of white space on each page, with tiny reproductions of web pages marooned in the middle. Is it too much to ask that publishers blow up the web page images so that their text is at least equal in font size to that of the book itself? I've noticed this trend in other computer books. What is this passion for empty white space? If a web page image is so unimportant that it can be shown at one third the size of the regular text, why show it at all? Griffith goes on to discuss topics such as setting up your own store and dealing with piles of feedback, but this reader had lost heart, and in any case could not find his magnifying glass.
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Summary: Truly the Bible of eBay! Five Stars!
Review: I started using ebay off and on several years ago but last month when I decided to get serious about making money on eBay, I bought this book. Mr. Griffith created this book as a wonderful resource directory that while flying on airplanes without access to the internet, I was able to get all my questions answered about the endless opportunities that eBay has to offer. Whatever you want to know about eBay, buying, selling and making money, Griff covers it in this book. In my opinion it is probably the only book you will ever need to be successful on eBay!
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Summary: Truly the Bible of eBay! Five Stars!
Review: I started using ebay off and on several years ago but last month when I decided to get serious about making money on eBay, I bought this book. Mr. Griffith created this book as a wonderful resource directory that while flying on airplanes without access to the internet, I was able to get all my questions answered about the endless opportunities that eBay has to offer. Whatever you want to know about eBay, buying, selling and making money, Griff covers it in this book. In my opinion it is probably the only book you will ever need to be successful on eBay!
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Summary: Long winded - and not enough of what I needed
Review: I thought a new book about ebay would give me some fresh ideas. It didn't. There was a long, step by step HTML tutorial. It is no longer valid for use on ebay since they have their own HTML online designer to help you with your auctions. Mr. Griffith's opinions are his own, and although he may have worked for ebay for a long time, he obviously isn't sucessfully selling on the site regularly. His opinions on transactions and feedback left me cold. This book seems only to reveal what ebay (the company) wants us to know. It just doesn't live up to the high levels that some other books on ebay have established.
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