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Don't Get Burned on eBay How to Avoid Scams and Escape Bad Deals

By Shauna Wright
First Edition  March 2006 
Pages: 174
ISBN 10: 0-596-10178-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596101787
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)

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Don't Get Burned on eBay offers relevant lessons based on real-life stories posted on eBay's Answer Center. With sharp, witty rhetoric, veteran eBay user Shauna Wright (co-founder of the popular web site WhoWouldBuyThat.com), shows eBay veterans and newcomers alike how to avoid those nasty scenarios, and how to pull themselves out of the muck if they've already fallen in.
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Not Getting Burned,  February 11 2008
Submitted by Jenny Radcliffe   [Respond | View]

(Review first written for the User Group http://www.compsoc.dur.ac.uk, Durham University Computing Society.)

The first thing to notice about this book is that it is heavily Americo-centric. It is about Ebay.com, and some of the features differ
from Ebay.co.uk. So some of it - particularly some of the payment and shipping advice - is less than useful to the UK reader. However, some of it is extremely useful, and generalising the advice to apply to yourself is always good.

The book uses friendly and approachable prose, appropriate to the subject matter. It's very common-sensical, and it's hard for the technically savvy reader to believe that there really are people who need some of the advice - but it's clear that there are people being burned by these issues, and actually, when there's an awful lot of
common sense needed, even the most pragmatic of us can miss things.

This book advises people as both buyers and sellers, which also provides a useful insight into the "other side" for everyone. It also provides a handy glossary for the confused.

I'd like to think that most CompSoccers are too tech savvy and sensible to need this book - but it would make an excellent Christmas present for nervous mothers, grandfathers and friends.

Which being so, a 5/10 for it - 3/10 for usefulness to techies, but a good 7/10 for the general reader.

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"A very smartly written guide to the dark side of buying on eBay. Readers are informed on a wide variety of scams and devious practices that can cost them dearly. This is a very instructive and interesting book for anyone who buys on eBay."
-- Michael Kleper, The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing


"Wright, whose career on eBay dates all the way back to 1997, gives hundreds of tips on bidding, payment, packaging, shipping, evil eBayers and scammers. She uncovers the truth about PayPal, money orders and cashiers' checks, describes the pitfalls of potentially embarrassing packaging, gives the pros and cons of the major shippers and details insurance issues, and offers clues you can use in sniffing out fakes. She is particularly careful in giving a full range of advice on the activities of scammers and how to prevent them from turning your successful enterprise into yet another contribution to the Nigerian economy."
-- Shannon Hendrickson, Book News Inc.


"The book uses friendly and approachable prose, appropriate to the subject matter. It's very common-sensical, and it's hard for the technically savvy reader to believe that there really are people who need some of the advice - but it's clear that there are people being burned by these issues, and actually, when there's an awful lot of common sense needed, even the most pragmatic of us can miss things."
-- Durham Students' Union, Compsoc



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