Sifting Through The Many eBay Books
Very few things on the Internet have launched more writing careers than eBay. There are eBay books about getting started on eBay, making money on eBay, making a living on eBay and even how to make a million dollars on eBay. If you did a search on any bookstore website you will see dozens and dozens of eBay books and that does not count the number of eBay books being sold directly by the people that either wrote the books or published them. Just when it seems like there cannot be one more book written about eBay, along comes a whole slew of new books on how to make your fortune with eBay. Then the infomercials started with people claiming to offer complete packages of information and helpful software to get you started on eBay. Those infomercials started a new wave of eBay books of people claiming that they had the answers that the television infomercials did not have. The eBay site is a lot more complicated than one simple approach or one set of guidelines. The beauty of eBay is that there is no cookie cutter approach to making a living on eBay. Every successful eBay seller has a story that is different from all the others. But there are some practical guidelines that you can use from the very early eBay books to help you get started.
The first types of eBay books you want to avoid are the ones that claim they can teach you the secret to success on eBay. There is no secret, as it is all hard work. There is no one great secret that will help you make money on eBay. There are, however, a set of suggestions and guidelines you can follow to get yourself started and then from there you have to make the rest happen yourself. But avoid the eBay books that claim to have the secret answered for you because they are just trying to sell you a useless book. The phrase eBay secrets revealed is getting way over used and it should be your cue to stay away from that eBay book.
Stick With Tried And True
Because eBay is one of those things that once you learn the basic guidelines you are pretty much on your way. Some of those guidelines, as laid out on the eBay site, can be a little confusing. That is where some of the practical and useful eBay books come in. The ones that tell you that they will show you how to use eBay as opposed to promising you the key to some secret that does not exist. A practical book on the explanation of the inner workings of eBay is what you want. The rest, and your success, is completely up to you.
