Barcode Booty: How I found and sold $2 million of 'junk' on eBay and Amazon, And you can, too, using your phone

Steve Weber has written another informative and entertaining book about online selling - this time with the focus on new products. The great thing about Steve Weber is that he is a battle-tested seller first and an author second. Reading a Steve Weber book is like taking a class that can save you literally years of trial-and-error. Although geared towards beginners, this book has valuable information for both beginners and veteran sellers. Beginners: Very informative, some step-by-step, many tricks that would take years to figure out on your own. He also includes interviews with successful sellers with different philosophies including one lady who doesn't even use a scanner to find products! Veterans: As a seasoned book seller & FBA seller, I learned some great tips that helped me immediately begin scouting products for resale. I was carrying an Android phone in my pocket for the past year and wasn't even aware of the valuable apps I could use - many free! As far as the reviewer who said that Steve is promoting FBA - I have used FBA the last year or two and Steve isn't promoting it - he is just writing about what method he uses. If you don't want to use FBA, the tips in this book will work with any format including eBay.

I stumbled across this book while looking up something entirely different. After reading the excerpt and sample chapter, I decided to go ahead and purchase a copy. The writing style is engaging & the tips given are pretty straightforward & easy to understand. What makes this book worth the asking price are the resources the author cites! I had only heard of a few of them & I've been flipping merchandise for close to 14 years. I look forward to reading more by this author in the future.

This book was very useful in helping me through the initial learning curve as a re-seller. The first read-through was at the start of my online venture, and I retained enough good info to jump-start things without too much difficulty. Steve's writing is clear and simple to understand, and "Barcode Booty" covers most of what I needed to know to get the ball rolling. After several months of "on the job training," consisting of sourcing and selling hundreds of products through Amazon, I went back and re-read Steve's book. This time, a lot of what had flown over my head on the first go-around made sense because I'd been out there doing the work and discovering how things worked for me personally. Now I understand better WHY things work the way they do, and how they work together. Reading this book again answered many questions that I'd developed along the way, and actually served as a training aid at the intermediate level as well. Highly recommended for anyone who's serious about doing well in this business.

It gives a big picture overview of how to buy and sell retail products online. It starts really well giving a great firsthand account of how the author has built a business buying and selling books and stumbled upon the world of "long tail" retail products. I was looking for more specific how to information. It is a difficult genre to describe so I give the author credit for what he did provide, accurate information. However, if you have already been selling for awhile you will need something with more details in order to satisfy you.

The first book I purchased on internet reselling was Retail Arbitrage by Christ Green. It's a great book, but one can't help being a little uneasy that the book is primarily a plug for the author's products, including FBAScout, FBAPower, etc. Should I invest in this subscription-based service, or not? What else is out there? I looked a little further, and found this book. I find this book and Retail Arbitrage to be complementary to each other. Retail Arbitrage does plug the FBAPower products, but it gives a superior overview to exactly what is involved in being an Amazon reseller. The book really gives you an insider's view of the different options for selling on Amazon, which is its main focus. This book, Barcode Booty, focuses less on the Amazon FBA program (though it does discuss it), but gives a lot more detail on different technology available to resellers, offering reviews of a number of different apps available for the different needs of resellers. Some are free, some are paid, but you are given the information you need to choose among them. My advice is to buy both books. Between the two, you will be prepared to enter the world of internet reselling.

I purchased this book almost two years ago and I waited for about six months before getting started. Being completely new to Amazon at the time, this book gave us all of the information we needed to get started. The idea of being able to use my smartphone to scan products and know ahead of time what type of profit we could make (potentially)was something I had never thought of. One of the biggest mistakes we made was clinging too long to the free apps. They just didn't provide enough info (Hello Sales Rank!) Another was not getting into FBA sooner. Initially we did all of our sales as seller fulfilled. There have been many things we learned along the way that weren't covered in this book but that is to be expected. In the year and a half that we have been actively selling, we have grossed almost $50,000 with around a 20% profit margin. This was starting with about $2k in seed capital. Not bad for a (mostly) part-time effort. There is no doubt that this book is an excellent source of information for a beginner to get their Amazon business up and running.

I am not interested in selling online. This book is all about selling online. However, what I did find out about finding good deals and knowing if you are paying too much or getting a great deal was useful. Maybe when I have more time I'll use this to jump start a business. Right now though, the information was interesting to read and useful just for my every day life when I'm looking for buying gifts or whatever.

Having read several of Steve's other books, I was so excited to see this on the Kindle that I downloaded Kindle for iMac and read it at one sitting. As always, Steve is easy to understand and gives plenty of his own and other people's examples. Gives some great ideas of where to find stock, as well as examples of how much you can make by buying marked down stock. In the next edition, it'd be great to see some info on what apps are available in the UK and other markets - but this book certainly had me inspired to explore the FBA program!

Just reading the book, not finished yet.... the quality/condition of the book itself was excellent....so far the information I've read is very useful...can't wait to finish it entirely!

Great book. Lots of valuable resource links. An easy read and some great info.

This is all new to me so all the info was of interest to me. However as I don't live in America the resources that he mentions are not really helpful to me, but I can look for similar services where I live. So I have the foundation where to look and what to look for. But for those that do live in America you have a good list of resources to begin with as we as good info for those of you starting out. So all round a good book for a beginner at an excellent price.

Great product, Great service. Great price. Couldn`t ask for more.