Learn How to Buy and Sell on eBay for 5 Bucks

In order to make money you need to spend money—$5 to be precise, an investment you're likely to earn back in spades on your first eBay auction if you follow the advice in this pocket-sized guide! By focusing on just the most common tasks you're likely to perform, this tight, bright, four-color guide serves as a super quick reference to using eBay safely, securely, and (most importantly) profitably! In less than 50 pages, eBay veteran and digital technology whiz Stephen Gregory covers all the eBay essentials: making safe purchases, setting yourself up as a seller, writing effective product descriptions, creating and posting persuasive product photos, ensuring transaction security, and making sure your customers are happy. Each page features a full-page visual (either a photograph or a software screen shot), step-by-step instructions, and perhaps a warning or tip at the bottom of the page-nothing extraneous, nothing more than you actually want to know!

In order to make money you need to spend money—$5 to be precise, an investment you're likely to earn back in spades on your first eBay auction if you follow the advice in this pocket-sized guide! By focusing on just the most common tasks you're likely to perform, this tight, bright, four-color guide serves as a super quick reference to using eBay safely, securely, and (most importantly) profitably! In less than 50 pages, eBay veteran and digital technology whiz Stephen Gregory covers all the eBay essentials: making safe purchases, setting yourself up as a seller, writing effective product descriptions, creating and posting persuasive product photos, ensuring transaction security, and making sure your customers are happy. Each page features a full-page visual (either a photograph or a software screen shot), step-by-step instructions, and perhaps a warning or tip at the bottom of the page-nothing extraneous, nothing more than you actually want to know!

Stephen Gregory has held hundreds of eBay auctions, and spends a lot of his time teaching other people about how to quickly get the most out of their various digital technologies.

Larry Becker is a teacher, technology trainer, photographer and electronic gadget fanatic. He is the probably the world's leading expert on Palm Pilot technologies (wrote two books and teaches Palm employees), he's been a featured guest on TechTV, and you may have seen him on your training DVD if you own certain Sony products.

Jim Workman is a senior executive in the technology industry and "lives on eBay when he's not at work."