Thursday, July 22, 2010

Buying Audiobooks on eBay

I have bought and sold audio books on eBay for the past 2 years. Here are my tips to help when buying audiobooks on eBay.


Finding an audiobookOne of the most difficult aspects is finding the audiobook your after. People often list audiobooks in the wrong category or do not give enough information in the title field.



Search for the book title.
Search for the author (i.e. King, Blyton, Christie, Cornwell, Clancy, Wodehouse, Bryson, Patterson, Rankin).
Search for the character or series (i.e. doctor who, dr who, lord of the rings , star wars, discworld, sharpe, paul temple).
Search for the reader (i.e. Thorne, Carmichael, Cecil, Barrett).
Click the 'search title and description' checkbox. This allows you to search the description as well as the title. Some people only list the author or reader in the description.
Use the '-' (minus) character to exclude words from the search. (i.e. Searching for Stephen Fry audio books can be difficult as the results will be mainly Harry Potter books, try entering 'stephen fry -harry' and the results should contain Stephen Fry audiobooks with no harry potter books visible.
Narrow your search down by length (i.e. select abridged or unabridged from the drop-down list). I generally only want unabridged books however, people still list with the wrong length, i.e. unabridged listed as abridged or listed with no length. The problem with listing with no length is that the audiobook will not appear when the search is narrowed down to abridged or unabridged, only when the length is any.
Also check the following categories:

Music

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