As an avid collector of just about everything, I was delighted to receive this book as a gift one Christmas. Its organization into topics and subtopics make it extremely easy to find information on any particular subject; the photographs are excellent; and the prices well-researched. Obviously the prices will change with time, and hopefully the author will revise the book in a few years. But meanwhile, the current edition can't be beat for its extremely interesting and informative articles on each topic. The best part about this book is that the reader not only gets an education about black collectibles, but a good read as well!

I have a family, work part-time, do charity work, try to squeeze in a few minutes for my wonderful friends.

I don't have spare time aplenty. I thought this book would be helpful, but it wasn't.

The ideas recommended were common sense, and worse the writing was wordy, dry and not at all engaging.

I realize this book is nonfiction, but even nonfiction should offer interesting language, and words, and delightful anecdotes.

This book had none of that.

In my opinion this tome should have been called THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO WASTING TIME.

As a student I have found this to be an exelant plan for saving valable time.

As a literture Student and Poetry Author. writing the for school on line magizine, as well as independent poetry contest. Working on several projects at the same time for my world novels class and creative writing class. Keeping a part time job and trying to have a home life is very hard when your at school four days a week from 8 am. to 9pm. This book has showed how I can organize my time better, and how to judge which things come first. I've had to ask myself a hard question, just how bad do I want to reach my goals. And was I willing to make some sacifices in my life to reach this goal. Once I had answered these questions the decision was easy. But if one is not serious about what ever their trying to do, if that person is not willing to make the sacefices to obtain it. Then they really dont want it nor need it or really care if they can save time and make their life a litle bit eaiser. This Author should be praised, and I hope she writes more on the subject.

This book was very weak in content. It provides few noteworthy pointers. It is basically a common sense walk-through, of how to view an auction business. If you aren't a complete idiot, you probably have no use for this book.

Like the other reviewer, I'm not a high-volume Ebay seller but I do run some auctions every month. This book covered a great deal of what I wanted to know about how to run my auctions and make them more profitable. It has a wealth of information on alternate auctions sites too.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get going on eBay.

When I finished reading this book, I felt like an "auction expert"... even though I've never bid or sold items on an online auction before. It seems to have many good tips only experience can teach you. I felt I learned all I needed in this book to get a good start. It appears there are no loose ends or anything left out. Very complete with urls to web resources such as appraisers, automation and tracking software to making selling at auctions a business.