selling your stuff on Amazon...part 2

hornetgirl

Just went and had a look at the Amazon forum for the first time. Most of the posts seem to start by asking a reasonable question and degenerate into a lot of childish, cliquey nonsense.
This thread (and the previous one) is way more useful and friendly.

Mr_Clingford

Useful suggestions and links are regularly provided but it appears to be more discussion than helping each other which is the ethos here. I inhabit both but post very rarely over there (just starting to post again here). Over there can be be found some picky people.

becky004

I just read the thread on amazon. What a miserable bunch of misers, clearly afraid of some healthy competition if you ask me

nads

hornetgirl wrote:

Most of the posts seem to start by asking a reasonable question and degenerate into a lot of childish, cliquey nonsense.

Spot on! :rolleyes:

carol_a_3

What a cheek...calling us hordes of get-rich-quick, fly-by-night sellers and saying that our thread will "die a natural death". Can't they take a bit of healthy competition?

voodoozoe

Well whos betting its them who have started all the daft price wars making loads of decent books virtually worthless and destroying their own business!!!!!!!

Life is too short to be so pathetic. Amazon itself constantly encourages the general public to sell their past purchases...what have they got to say about that!!!!!

Bella13_2

Phew! After a very quiet week with no sales whatsoever, (so that I am resorting to giving books away, lol!!) just downloaded my emails to check two books I have just listed, to find a third lovely email from Amazon, sold dispatch now!! It was one I have just had to relist because the 60 days was up, so they do sell eventually!!

One of the books I have listed showed 2 buyers waiting, and gave me a guide price of £18.50 (depending on the condition). I could not ask that much for it, so have gone for about half of that! Paid £1 for it at a charity shop this morning. Will see how I get on!! (yes, I know £1 is expensive, had already checked it out on Amazon, knew no others listed, and allegedly, two buyers waiting.) If I don't sell by October, well, it's my Dad's birthday, and he likes the subject matter, so that's his present sorted!!!

cazmeg

Help! I was checking my prices in open listings, this morning, due to a real slow down in sales. All my 1p prices have changed to 0.00, when I correct them they just change back again. Has this happened to anyone else?

grunnie

Yes the same happened to me Iwas beginning to panic I came on here to ask the same question On the open listings they seem to be highlighted in yellow

apprentice_tycoon

I've just had a look and you're both right - the numbers are playing up, it must be a glitch as the prices that end in 50p have the zero missing too.

Bella, just out of interest why can't you ask £18.00 for the book? if it's the condition then fair enough but if you're just a bit embarassed about the difference between the price you paid and the price offered then you'd be wrong to feel like that.

If it had been me I'd had taken a little bit less than the amount that they were willing to pay but not half as much. These buyers will have been looking everywhere for this book and have probably been searching for months or years, they will be delighted that it's turned up at last!
The book is worth what people want to pay, it's not worth just a pound, that was the price you were willing to pay, other people really want that book and are willing to offer more, so it's now worth more..simple as that.