Virtual Vintage - Rated 
Basically a very comprehensive guide to online buying and selling, which assumes no prior experience whatsoever, with a lot of knowledge behind it. It is a useful addition to the usual collection of glossy, coffee-table vintage clothing books. As an experienced buyer and slightly less seasoned seller of vintage clothing myself, I found a lot of their common-sense advice useful in explaining some of my own experiences and lamented that I hadn't discovered this book the year it was published to save at least some of my own knowledge being so hard-won!
However, like other readers, I found their America-centric approach patronising and parochial. Their target reader appears to be a hick who's never been further than the local mall and yet, at the same time, is knowledgeable about and desirous of high-end garments by the likes of Elsa Schiaparelli and Rudi Gernreich...
The writers make no reference to any country's postal system being different to the USA's, barely acknowledge that all currencies are not the US dollar, and express relief that, despite widespread acceptance of the metric system, phew! many sellers still use good ol' inches in their garment descriptions. All this from a standpoint of opening the reader's eyes to the vast possibilities being able to buy and sell worldwide!
So, in conclusion, I'd recommend readers to read through gritted teeth and absorb the common sense advice, and that the publishers get their writers and/or editors to embrace the centimetre, the world's postal systems and currencies other than the dollar and then bring out a new edition!
Entertaining, but................... - Rated 
Linda Lindroth and Deborah Newell Tornello write a very readable guide to buying and selling vintage online, and particularly charming are their own tales of fantastic finds and accompanying photos. However, some of the information and advice they offer seems a little basic- for example, the book spends some time telling you everything you need to know about buying on Ebay, but I suspect for many of this book's readers this isn't new advice. The section on fitting, repairing and removing stains from vintage clothes is useful, as are the sections on different garments. This book is by no means comprehensive, although perhaps that is due to the rapidly changing nature of cyberspace and fact that this book was published in 2002.
You'll want to read this book sitting next to a computer, as the authors pepper their entertaining text with links to interesting websites. However, the information it contains has dated very quickly, and there are a fair few dead links. Also, this book seems very much aimed at readers in the States, although I suppose this is because the U.S. really have cornered the market in vintage clothing- it seems to be in much more plentiful supply over there!
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