Titanium Ebay: A Tactical Guide to Becoming a Millionaire Powerseller

First, let me qualify myself. I've been selling on eBay for several years now and attained the level of Gold PowerSeller this past summer. That basically means I average over $10,000 in monthly sales. I bought this book because I attended a session hosted by the author at eBay Live! in June and thoroughly enjoyed it. It covers everything you need to know about setting up your business, equipment needed (whether shoestring budget or optimal setup), finding product at a price you can afford AND make a profit, tools to use, how to price, how to market and tons more. You only need a few of these gems to make a difference, but there are plenty to pick from. It's well written and easy to understand, whether you're a novice or a seasoned eBay pro. What it WON'T do is tell you how to obtain an eBay ID, set up a seller account and that sort of thing. But there are scores of books that tell you that, in addition to the eBay help pages. This book isn't for the casual eBay seller. If you just want to sell a few things out of your attic instead of holding a garage sale, don't bother. But if you're serious about building an ongoing eBay business, this book is a must-have.

I've read many books on eBay selling and subscribe to most of the newsletters. Some books are full of straight-up nonsense, or good for a specific aspect of eBay, or just a marketing scheme for you to buy yet more books (or services) by the author. Skip McGrath's book is different; it is by far the most comprehensive book I have read about REALLY selling on eBay. We're talking jaw-dropping ideas here. Just about every aspect of eBay selling is covered in this 540+ page book. It seems like he's seen (and probably done) it all. He has the skinny on the best picture taking techniques, specific wording for dealing with dead-beat, non-paying bidders so you get your listing fees back asap, etc. He really covers it all!!! Okay, stop reading,buy this book, read it, and come back here and tell me how right I am!!!

Since I began selling on eBay a few months ago, I've read a number of "How To" books about eBay. Most are just too basic, or they're filled with a lot of "Aren't I great" stuff that won't help YOU one bit. But this book is different. Skip is a Power Seller and he has been very successful, so, of course, there's a bit about Skip and his success. But mainly it's about HOW he's been successful. Basically, it's cover to cover "nuts and bolts" across the eBay spectrum of what you can and need to do to be successful at eBay. If you want to really be successful at eBay, this book will give you more help and ideas than all the others combined. If you read only one book about eBay, this is the book you MUST read. I keep it on my nightstand and continue to go back through it, learning new things and finding new ideas I didn't pick up on the first time. I'd put it under my pillow, but it's a bit too thick for that.

There are a lot of books that tell you how to be a PowerSeller on e-Bay, and even more that tell you how to get started selling on d-Bay. This book skips the beginning stuff and presumes you have some idea about how to sell something on e-Bay. This book is concerned with taking you up to the maximum levels. At first he talks about some of the business aspects you will have to address as your business grows to this size. The business aspects are fairly standard, picking a name, setting up the business, accounting, insurance, and your permanent business partner - the IRS. It's after that section, along about Part 2 of the book that he gets into the real key to being a Titanium seller, Product Selection and Pricing. e-Bay is just about the closest the world has ever seen of a perfect marketplace. The internet has provided a communications medium that it instantaneous, free, and worldwide. And you need to find a product that you can sell, in volume (Titanium level is $150,000 per month.), without everyone else jumping on your parade and selling the same product for a few cents less until there is no money in it for anyone. He doesn't tell you what such products might be. If he did, mobs of people would be selling just what he says, and the profits would go away. YOU have to find something of your own, something that you can control the pricing, something that other people won't jump all over. What he does do is give you some ideas about where to look and what to look for. If you can apply what he says, you can come up a winner. These pages, from page 69 to 240 are worth the price of the book many times over. The rest of the stuff you have to do, but this product part is critical. And this part of his book is the best I've ever seen.

I have read many eBay books, however they were missing something. A lot of the books that I read about various subject matters would get you to the very basic question, "Where do I go from here?" This book contained many useful resources to overcome obstacles of daily selling issues. There were many new ideas of where to obtain product and not just from garage sales. A lot of these where places that I never heard of. If you were going to purchase a single book about eBay, I would highly recommend this one. It covers from the basics of everyday business requirements to purchasing products. A great resource for selling on eBay!