Confessions of an internet auction junkie

You can earn hundreds, even thousands of dollars running your own Internet auctions. But there's more to the Internet auction world than meets the eye: you need to know which secrets to take advantage of and what scams to avoid. Through an entertaining collection of stories----his own and those of others-Michael Weber demystifies Internet auctions by revealing the empowering techniques at the core of all successful Internet commerce.

This book is a multimedia experience; YOU'Il move back and forth seamlessly from the book to the CD-ROM to your auctions on the Internet. In addition to the entire text of the book, the CD-ROM contains hundreds of invaluable hyperlinks that will help you master the art of Internet auctions and become a proficient consumer.

Learn How To:

Buy wholesale and bid wisely

Create successful HTML Internet auction ads that sell

optirnize your auction profits

Earn great auction site feedback

Link your auctions to your own free Web site

Turn what you know into a business

Gain financial freedom

Mi ch a el Weber : is a Hollywood screenwriterwho ha s produced hum dreds of television commercials for the top advertising agencies on Madison Avenue. He is the recipient of five Clio Awards. Mr. Weber maintains several Websites including HIP2SELL.COM, an Internet advertising agency, and HIP2BUY.COM, an e-commerce site. He sells more Kit-Cat clocks than anyone on eBay!

Contents at a Glance

• Introduction
  
• Part 1: Casual Use: Browslng
  
• Chapter 1: Reap What You Sow: Money in Your Mailbox
  
• Chapter 2: Buying: Secrets of a Master Bidder
  
• Chapter 3: Selling: Secrets of a Master Marketeer
  
• Chapter 4: Feedback: Youre Only as Good as
  
• Your Reputation
  
• Chapter 5: Navigation and Negotiation: Are Dutch
  
• Auctions Held in Holland'
  
• Part Il: Experimentation: Closet Mining
  
• Chapter 6: Nothing Could Bc FinerThan to Be a
  
• Closet Miner
  
• Chapter 7: A Crash Course in Technobabble:Why ASCII?
  
• Chapter 8: Great Advertising Equals Great Auctions:
  
• Let's Light This Candle!
  
• Chapter 9: Survivingy the Digital Blitzkrieg: Switching
  
• Hats and Seffing Kit-Cats
  
• Chapter 10: Your PC as an Internet Auction Assembly Line:
  
• Factory or Fiction'
  
• Chapter 11: Avoiding the PitfaUs of Success: Take a Deep
  
• Breath and Count to Ten
  
• Part III: Addiction: The Closet Mining
  
• Crossroads
  
• Chapter 12: Your Well Has Run Dry: What Now?
  
• . Chapter 13: The Sheriff of eBay: Tales from the
  
• Not-So-OK Corral
  
• Chapter 14: Microsoft Office for $17: Secrets and Guides
  
• Chapter 15: Getting the Drop-Ship
  
• on Your Competition
  
• Part IV: Recovery: For
  
• Professionals Only
  
• Chapter 16: A License to Steal: Prices Slashed to Retail!
  
• Chapter 17: FindingYour Own Niche: FishingAround
  
• Chapter 18: The Web Is Your Oyster: Open a Web Site
  
• and They Will Click.?
  
• Chapter 19: The Merchant ofVisa: The Buck Stops Here
  
• Chapter 20: The Eighth Continent: The State
  
• Of Cyberspace
  
• Index