Acknowledgements

The book you're holding is the result of many people's hard work. Thanks to everyone at O'Reilly, especially Sarah Milstein for her patience and encouragement and for helping me to organize a jumble of ideas into the chapters of a book; Michele Filshie for organizing the technical reviews; and Emily Moore for many good suggestions. I'm particularly grateful to the book's technical reviewers, Drue Miller, Shauna Wright, and Andy Carciere, for their comments, questions, and pointers—all of which helped to make this a better book.

I could never have written this book without the assistance of dozens of eBayers. Thanks for sharing your time, tips, and expertise so generously.

David Fugate started the whole thing with a single email—thanks, David, for suggesting I look into the Missing Manual series. Thanks to Michelle Brandwein and Rebecca Hanley for long-distance listening and back-patting. To my daughter, Tamsen, thanks for your loving support and letting me bounce ideas off you. And to my parents, Harold and Lois Brown, thanks for telling me to hurry up and finish so you could learn how to use eBay yourselves.

Finally, extra special thanks to Steven Holzner for all your support, advice, encouragement, and love. I couldn't have done it—or much of anything—without you.

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