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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (3 Jun 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0316164933
ISBN-13: 978-0316164931
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating history of a dot.com, 28 Nov 2003

By	James Lucy - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Perfect Store: Inside eBay (Paperback)

This is not a 'how to sell on Ebay' book. It is a detailed and very readable history of the birth and development of one of the most successful dot-coms.
For anyone who lived through the overinflated bubble that marked the start of the evolution of the internet into the commercial mainstream, this will help explain what was happening inside one of the leaders. It contrasts dramatically with, for example, the demise of Boo.com as described in the equally interesting book BooHoo.com.
If you have worked for a company that started out lean, agile, idealistic and entrepreneurial and slowly found it becoming mired in legal issues, HR, internal politics and general inertia, you will find it all rehearsed here.
Although this book won't start that Ebay busines for you, it will help you understand how Ebay has become what it is today.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good start, tails off a bit towards the end, 11 Jul 2005

By	A. I. Mackenzie "alimack" (Glasgow, Scotland.) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Perfect Store: Inside eBay (Paperback)

This is a good recounting of the EBay story - it's not a 'how to sell on Ebay book (most of which are fairly useless anyway).
Unfortunately the author doesn't try to 'frame' the story at all, he just tells the story without comment and by about half way through it all starts getting a little dull.
Some comment on why eBay did so well when other auction sites didn't and what the future holds would have been very interesting.
If you want commentary on the effect the internet has had on people Michael Lewis's book 'The Future Just happened' is much better.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The people behind eBay, 12 Aug 2008

By	Bruce Murphy (Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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A story of the people and decisions that took ebay from an idea that the perfect market could be realised into a multi-billion dollar company that survived the dot-com crash. This mostly concentrates on the people involved in the early days, but takes time to dwell on outsiders that ebay brought into the fold as well as a few who remained firmly outside. Fascinating.

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