eBay Listings That Sell For DummiesISBN: 978-0-471-78912-3
Paperback
344 pages
May 2006
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Out of college, Marsha worked in fashion advertising for the Miami Herald and then as special-projects manager for the Los Angeles Daily News. She also founded a home-based advertising and marketing business. Her successful business, the Collier Company, Inc., was featured by Entrepreneur magazine in 1986, and in 1990, Marsha’s company received the Small Business of the Year award from her California State Assemblyman and the Northridge Chamber of Commerce.
Bargains drew Marsha to eBay in 1996, but profitable sales keep her busy on the site now. Marsha applies her business acumen and photography skills to her eBay business — and in this book, she shares her knowledge about what makes good, profit-promoting listings on eBay.
Patti “Louise” Ruby, an Indianapolis native,
was born to work on a computer. In junior high, she took a class in
the programming language Fortran. She excelled and enjoyed the
class: The die was cast. Patti went through several jobs as a
programmer and then became a consultant. In the late ’90s,
Patti was part-owner of an antique mall, and coincidentally found a
Web site called AuctionWeb (the original eBay). She was fascinated
by the concept, and began selling on the site. She also became an
integral part of the chat rooms, which initially served as loose
customer support where users helped other users. Patti’s ease
with computers helped many a new user feel comfortable on the
boards — and with using the AuctionWeb system.
In February 1997, Patti was hired as AuctionWeb’s second
Customer Support Representative. In this position, she became the
main interface between the engineering staff and the user
community, where she communicated members’ “bug”
reports and suggestions for site enhancements. When AuctionWeb
became the new eBay site in the fall of 1997, she headed up a
“live” question-and-answer board that was set up to
help members make the transition between platforms.