About the Book
Buying & Selling Online: Secrets to Success is a “how-to” guide. It teaches buyers, sellers, and resellers proven strategies which will enable them to buy, sell, and resell effectively and successfully online. Other topics include registering a business, developing a business plan, bookkeeping, storage-related issues, and insurance.
This book covers the buying process of an item, which includes searching, bidding, winning, and inspection, and it describes the process of testing an electrical item. It also covers the process of selling an item, which includes listing formats, creating listings, photos, managing listings, running and managing sales, store categories, item pricing, packing and shipping, and customer relations.
Within this book, five novel concepts are introduced. Based upon mathematics, they include item maximum bid price, maximum purchase price, and minimum selling price. Plus, the new concepts of bid blocking and shifting sales.
Although primarily for sellers, buyers can also benefit from some of the information in the Supplement such as examples of predefined searches and how to use them. Should you sell items part time, then you will benefit by much of the information contained in the Supplement.
- Templates which a seller can use to address a buyer's questions
- Templates for other types of communication with a buyer
- Templates for packing and electrical slips
- Template for an Online E-commerce store, organized into categories and subcategories
- Example format of a listing description
- Examples of predefined searches
- List of helpful websites for downloading automotive parts catalogs, part-number search, and price comparison
Book Supplement Contents