Retail Buying (7th Edition)

Retail Buying (7th Edition)
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Retail Merchandising

Fashion Buying for the 1970's

Retail Buying (7th Edition)
Jay Diamond , and Gerald Pintel
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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Customer Reviews:

Retail Merchandising.......2007-01-21

I bought this book for my merchandising principles class at the fashion school. I never once referred to this book for any information. If you're interested in learning about retail buying and the accounting principles and math behind it, I would recommend purchasing a book that is specifically for that purpose. Usually, in accounting and mathematics books, there are general summary of the industry and practices, then they delve into the quantitative portion. There is no use getting this book. It will put you to sleep. FAST!

Fashion Buying for the 1970's.......1998-02-25

Diamond and Pintel's 5th Edition continues to focus solely on Retail Buying for the Fashion (softlines) industry. The focus is on high end retailers Macys, Nieman Marcus and The Limited. There is only cursory mentions of other retail types.

While some of their basic principles are sound, the technology is 20 - 30 years behind the times. Therefore, a student interested in improving their marketability is sorely served by text that constantly refers to paper forms, "the growing use of computers" and the increased use of the UPC.

Book Description

Retail buying covers broad areas such as organization of retail establishments, distribution, roles of buying groups, planning and control, choosing vendors, negotiation, pricing, and selling of goods and services to the consumer. This text offers detailed and up-to-date coverage of retail buying, promoting smart decision making in today's complex global marketplace.

Tips and Traps When Buying a Franchise: Complete Revised and Updated

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simply fantastic......
Much better than the other books on franchising
AMAZING!
Very informative on questions about Franchising
Tips and Traps When buying a Franchise is a Must Read!

Tips and Traps When Buying a Franchise: Complete Revised and Updated
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simply fantastic.............2006-08-17

As prospective franchise purchasers, my wife and I highly recommend this book. It is well balanced, presenting the path from initial consideration, analyzing the data including the daunting UFOC, and a list of resources that are helpful. It is not biased towards the viewpoints of franchisers, which is one of the downfalls of the Dave Thomas book which is otherwise a good companion to this text.

It is simultaneously a good and quick read, but is also full of information. I hope that anyone interested in the franchise route will read this and learn from it.

Much better than the other books on franchising.......2004-11-17

I found this book very informative on the subject of franchising. It gives you a great deal of information to consider and look for. As for the questions it raises I went to the authors website and that helped somewhat but I still had questions that I needed to get answered so I found and expert to help me.

A little investigation, and Google, led me to George Knauf. I wanted to use everything available to me and the book was a good start, but don't dicsount the benefit of some good and experienced advice. The book was worth the investment and the advice was somehow free, how can you beat that?

AMAZING!.......2002-11-13

I started off with no knowledge of the franchising industry..until this book. Tips and Traps takes you through the whole franchise process. After devouring this book ( I am already on my fourth reading!), I have become a franchisee in an expanding food franchise! I would like to find Mary E Tomazack and shake her hand...she changed my life!

Very informative on questions about Franchising.......1999-10-28

Very informative and interesting on the Franchising Business

Tips and Traps When buying a Franchise is a Must Read!.......1999-05-08

The ABC's of franchising are all in Mary Tomzack's book Tips and Traps When Buying a Franchise. Clearly covered and simply explained are everything you want to and need to know about franchising. This book should be a must read for business majors and anyone interested in franchising. This book is worth the price of the book.

How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner: The Complete Guide to Buy, Manage, Furnish, Rent, Maintain and Advertise Your Vacation Rental Investment

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Very informative and easy to read
A great starting point.....
Very, Very Useful Primer on Vacation Rentals
Nice title, but way too basic info, too wordy (filler)
Limited and biased

How To Rent Vacation Properties By Owner: The Complete Guide to Buy, Manage, Furnish, Rent, Maintain and Advertise Your Vacation Rental Investment
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Author and speaker Christine Hrib Karpinski takes readers through all the steps necessary to purchase and rent out a vacation home. This book contains practical, hands-on advice that shows the reader how to do it without property management companies, and keep 100 percent of the profits. It offers realistic strategies to create a situation in which renters pay the mortgage, while still allowing the owner several weeks a year in that little slice of paradise.

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Very informative and easy to read.......2007-09-11

For a person like me who is going to start in the Vacation Rental Business, this book was very helpful and informative. For someone who has experience in the business maybe will find it too elementary or too basic. For me it was a good start.

A great starting point............2007-08-28

I own 5 rental properties, 2 are vacation rentals. I bought this book with pretty high expectations. Well, even though I've been doing this for 15 years, Christine still had some new advice to share. I thought her formula was great for some areas, but in Colorado Ski country it just doesn't work.

I love how she does give a couple different points of view pertaining to financing your vacation home.

I would also preferred more depth, that a chapter on properties outside the US, and buy multiple properties. But as some reviewers have stated, it is an excellent primer.

I do think that her book on booking rentals, The Vacation Rental Organizer is a very useful organizer for the money. I intend to purchase one each year.

Very, Very Useful Primer on Vacation Rentals.......2007-08-01

I have to laugh at the previous two reviews, obviously written by the same person, an admitted student with a bone to pick with the author. Christine is the most well-known expert in the very small field of vacation rental consultants. She literally "wrote the book" to walk potential investors, vacationers, and home owners into successfully taking advantage of the blossoming vacation rental market.

This student disagrees with Christine's recommendations that owners not rent to those under 25 years old, then proceeds to show a perfect example of why owners shouldn't. He attempts to trash her reputation, rather than someone's rental property. I'm a rental owner and have the same rule, based on personal experience and the many experiences of friends and acquaintances. I imagine this student has stayed in 1 or 2 rentals and as a result is now an "expert"...much like the hotel commercials we all laugh at.

As the student says, some of the information in Christine's books is on the Internet, as is information from every book ever written. However, this new version of her "How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner" contains everything anyone needs to know to look for, purchase, furnish, and rent a vacation home. Some of the information is common sense but much is 'insider information' from her many years as a seminar leader, training thousands of owners and being a 'by owner' property manager herself.

Take the previous reviews for what they are, feeble attempts to get even with someone that disagrees with him. If you want to learn about this industry and how to rent 'by owner' get this book and read it cover to cover and decide for yourself how valuable it really is.

Nice title, but way too basic info, too wordy (filler).......2007-07-31

I thought the title of the book was exactly what I was looking for. I had a property to rent and thought about making it a vacation rental. So, I bought the book thinking it would help point out some not-so-obvious issues about renting a vacation property. But after reading it, I was disappointed with the lack of any real advice or tips. There are a A LOT of words, but they seem to be mostly filler with only very limited and basic useful information. I would not recommend this book to anyone interested in running a real business.

Limited and biased.......2007-07-19

I purchased this book with the intention of gaining a working knowledge of vacation rentals to start a small vacation rental project in Baja California, in Mexico. This guide was not particularly helpful at all, providing only rudimentary information that was already somewhat obvious. It also relies on some dangerous business practices, fundamentally on speculating on the property that you are going to buy and trying to make significant profit that way. It seems to be very limited and unprofessional, almost hokey, in its view of vacation rentals.

I was personally offended as a student in that it explicitly recommends discriminating against students or anyone under 25 as customers.

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A fairly good text book

Retail Product Management Buying and Merchandising
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There are many diverse activities and issues surrounding product management in retailing and it is a complex area for students to fully comprehend. This fully revised and updated textbook is the perfect introduction for students of retailing, guiding readers through all of the issues relating to product management in retailing.

With a concise and highly practical approach, the book has been updated to include the most up-to-date theory, case examples and resources as well as new chapters on product range and promotional activity, specific product management challenges, category management and the use of new technology in retailing.

Taking an integrated approach that incorporates established theory, contemporary commercial practice, examples and case studies, this accessibly written textbook is key reading for all students in the area.

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A text for anyone studying retail product management or buying and merchandising at degree level. It covers all retail operations, from stock level management, through allocation of outlet space for products, to Digital TV shopping.

Customer Reviews:

A fairly good text book.......2005-08-20

This book does give a good idea of the subject. However, I found that it is rather basic, and is suitable more as a text book, and not for the purpose that I was looking. As a person experienced in business and manufacturing, and having recently entered the retail segment, I was looking for a book that would give me more in-depth information on the subject.

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Helpful, Concise, Complete, Needed
Not for the serious user
Tons of information for newcomers and oldies
Look elsewhere first
Ho Hum

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Helpful, Concise, Complete, Needed.......2006-11-06

An excellent book for E-Bay sellers (or buyers) -- a fine listing of almost anything you can think of to sell, and the approx price of them. I found it to be very useful for my e-bay business.

Not for the serious user.......2006-01-17

but then again, what other kind of user wld attempt such a big book?

it's very very vague, even for a beginner.

Tons of information for newcomers and oldies.......2006-01-06

This book is packed full of information for anyone who uses ebay. Buyers and Sellers, they've got everything you will ever need to know in here. I would recommend this book if your needing some extra cash and you are going to use ebay. This book will show you how to milk the most out of ebay and attract more members. It will show you how to get the word out, make your auction look more professional, and tons of do's and dont's of ebay.

Look elsewhere first.......2005-04-02

An average book. Does not contain any information that the other books don't contain. I recommend looking at other eBay books instead of this one. An overuse of white space makes this book very big.

After reading the top eBay books, below are my recommendations:
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Ho Hum.......2005-01-29

Very basic information. This book is for the beginner just learning the ropes about eBay. If you have been using the site for some time now, then you know just as much as whats in this book.

The resources for sellers to find "wholesale" products were terrible. The sites basically sell junk or overpriced refurbs.

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