eBay the Smart Way
Third Edition
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eBay the Smart Way
ing, Buying, and Profiting on the Web’s #1 Auction Site
Third Edition
Joseph T. Sinclair
American Management Association
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To my grandfather, Joseph Treble Sinclair, who was a master of com-
merce in Detroit in the first half of the twentieth century. And to my
father-in-law, Ollie Jack Wallin, who was a master of retail in Oklahoma
City during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Contents
owledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
ucing eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
roduction to eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
A Terrific Place to Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .