Become an expert in Bidding, buying, and selling online with the ultimate guide to Internet collecting. From the basic information you need to sell your items in an online auction to making online buys at great prices, experts Ralph and Terry Kovel are right on top of the hottest trends. Kovels' Bid, Buy, and Sell Online offers all the expertise you need for buying or selling anything in this worldwide virtual bazaar. This guide covers it all! * How to register on a variety of online sites * How to search for what you want * How to write an ad to attract the most attention * How to use photographs * How to avoid fakes and forgeries * And much more . . . Complete with a chart comparing the fees, rules, and practices of the three major auction sites, as well as diaries of both a buyer and a seller, the book also provides the Kovels' list of sites (constantly updated at www.kovels.com) to guide you through the fast-growing auction opportunities on the Web.

The hard-to-find information, sources, and addresses that collectors need for repairing, caring for, and finding buyers for antiques and collectibles are all in this book. To gather the information for this book, Ralph and Terry Kovel contacted more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and other industry sources around the country, making this the most up-to-date and complete reference of its kind.

Presents an illustrated A-Z encyclopedia containing approximately 600 entries on computer and technology related topics.

Need an eye for your teddy bear? Searching for another soup spoon to complete Grandma's silver? Looking for someone to repair your porcelain doll? Wondering if restoring your carousel horse will lower its value? Kovels' Yellow Pages is the ultimate directory for collectors. It helps you find sources for repair, restoration, and parts, and it lists matching services, appraisers, and auction houses--all you need to help you maintain the value of your antiques and add to your enjoyment of collecting. America's antiques experts, Ralph and Terry Kovel, also give you "insider" information on how to navigate the complicated world of buying, selling, and collecting antiques. They have distilled a lifetime's worth of information to give you the last word on Where to start when you've inherited a house full of stuff How to know if you need an appraiser and where to find one When giving away an antique is more profitable than selling it If repairing or restoring an object will lower or enhance its value How to bid in out-of-town auctions Kovels' Yellow Pages gives you firsthand information from more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and industry sources nationwide. You'll find names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, plus e-mail and Internet addresses. There's also an extensive bibliography of price books and reference books most helpful to collectors. With this guide, you have at your fingertips the most complete and up-to-date collector's reference available anywhere.

This resource guide points collectors to price guides, repair services, and sources for parts and supplies.

Alphabetically arranged entries provides retail prices for more than 50,000 different antiques and collectibles, with photographs, factory marks and logos, and a special report on record-breaking prices for 2003.