selling your stuff on Amazon...part 2

apprentice_tycoon

becky004 wrote:

They seem to have millions listed, every book I click on belongs to them!

476 books to be exact - beat that!

flighty02

I have actually swapped with this person :rolleyes: at his request and managed to offload a book that I think I must have got from one of you when I first started and worth 1p
The book I got is listed at about £4 on amazon but as it happens it is one that I wanted anyway... however... the packaging was almost non existent and the book and packaging were put through the letterbox seperately! :mad:

apprentice_tycoon

I've just had another J R Hartley type book sale :cool:

It was a book on teaching reading that I picked up for not a lot of money, there were no others on Amazon (or bookfinder) so I pulled a price out of the air and sold it a few hours later to the author, he didn't have it as 'buyer waiting' so he must have been checking on the off-chance.
It went for £13 so now I'm wondering just how much he would have paid for it.

becky004

After a miserable few weeks after Xmas with no sales atall have sold 4 today! and 4 at weekend. Will never be able to give up the day job (unless I shift my obscure book on bloody diamonds!). It certainly is very addictive so much so that the essay I have had to do for the last 8 weeks and which has to be in on Monday remains undone! I always say I'll do it tomorrow but there aren't very many tomorrows left! HELP :eek:

flighty02

Fantastic! But if it was priced much higher he might not have bought it... you never know with these things.
Had a good day on Saturday... bought 5 text books at £1 each and they listed at £16, £19, £20, £25 and £50 and sold the one at £20 the next day... heres hoping for the others

apprentice_tycoon

becky004 wrote:

After a miserable few weeks after Xmas with no sales atall have sold 4 today! and 4 at weekend. Will never be able to give up the day job (unless I shift my obscure book on bloody diamonds!). It certainly is very addictive so much so that the essay I have had to do for the last 8 weeks and which has to be in on Monday remains undone! I always say I'll do it tomorrow but there aren't very many tomorrows left! HELP :eek:

There is no logic to any of these sales is there? this week I have sold books thet have been listed for 3 years, I didn't alter the listing or reduce the price, it just happened.


Becky - do you want us to chastise you severely for not doing your essay 8 weeks ago or recommend books on time management and motivation?

becky004

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Becky - do you want us to chastise you severely for not doing your essay 8 weeks ago or recommend books on time management and motivation?

I'd much rather you offered to write the essay for me AT. I don't need a book on motivation am highly motivated...........in book selling lol. Is no book in the world that could motivate me to write what I have to write on!
Maybe if I'd been allowed to go on a course I was actually interested in I would be highly motivated to write about it.

Carnwaj

Sorry if this has been asked before.

What are the benefits of selling books on Amazon as opposed to ebay? I've sold a few books on ebay but I haven't tried marketplace.

Thanks

becky004

Carnwaj wrote:

Sorry if this has been asked before.

What are the benefits of selling books on Amazon as opposed to ebay? I've sold a few books on ebay but I haven't tried marketplace.

Thanks

Welcome to Bookselling Addicts Anonymous. From a personal point of view I found putting books on ebay time consuming and had trouble with taking photographs, listing etc and books didnt sell for much. I work full time and find amazon much easier as you only have to put the ISBN in and wait for a SOLD email. However there are people on here far more experienced on this than I am, as I am a mere novice I'd wait for their replies.

apprentice_tycoon

Hi carnwaj - the key benefit is that you don't pay a penny till your book (or CD, DVD etc) is sold and you don't have to faff around with photos. The fees are higher than ebay but if you have a light book you'll make money on the postage allowance that they give you. Have a look at the manual here and you'll see how you can sell a book for 1 penny and still make a little money for yourself