Selling Your Stuff on Amazon Part 12 - Advice for newbies in first two posts

soolin

Ruthibe73 wrote: »

I have a hard back copy of Percy Thrower's Encyclopedia of gardening. I've looked on Amazon and there are 40 odd copies at 1p. They have a publishing date of 1970, how do I know when mine was published? Just inside the first couple of pages you have the "published for blah blah blah" bit, in this it tells me that it was first published in 1962 and seventh impression 1968. Could mine be an earlier publication to what they are selling on Amazon?

Gardening books, unless very rare are difficult to make money on. I can't imagine there is any profit on a 1p book like that.

It might be a candidate for the charity shop I'm afraid.

Chuzzle

Thanks Soolin, I was thinking that as well.

martinsgiftstogo

soolin wrote: »

I also sell books on Ebay and some popular books on https://www.greenmetropolis. I closed down my Play trade selling account though as I had real problems with emails and notifications and didn't need the hassle.

I also used to list on ebid, but never sold anything.

I've been selling on greenmetropolis for a while and buy books from there. I have a playtrade account and I have to keep checking in since I discovered they weren't telling me I had sold stuff.

I also sell books on eBay swap books with the forum members on eBid:rolleyes:

Jenna_Appleseed

I've sold an old Beatles cd :cool:- hope the buyer didn't think they were pre-ordering the new edition and aks for a refund:eek:

cheekyemma

i just sold a book for 1p and after fees and p&p my total profit was a bit fat zero. I am now rethinking all my low price items!

rick_martinez

Hi, was looking for some place to sell my old books and wondered if i needed a credit card to register with amazon or will a bank account suffice? I only wondered because i have neither a credit or debit card.Any help grateful.

soolin

rick_martinez wrote: »

Hi, was looking for some place to sell my old books and wondered if i needed a credit card to register with amazon or will a bank account suffice? I only wondered because i have neither a credit or debit card.Any help grateful.

Unfortunately you do need a card to sell on Amazon, sometimes they will not even accept a debit card, just a credit card. You might want to give Greenmetropolis a look as I don't think they need a card, just a bank account.

rick_martinez

ok thanks my friend for your quick reply.

pinkpong

Hi everyone, I am quite new to Amazon sales ( retired Ebay seller). With the new thing they hasve introduced about selling toys before Chistmas, I need 5 things to sell to qualify. So was wondering if I could get any tips form you peeps. Something which is in demand and can sell quick, I have tones of rubbbish around my house, and I can sell cheap,so fire away with ideas, please.

soolin

Ideally you would need to be looking for new stock if you want to sell toys as the chances of older things being in the data base are a bit remote.

If you mean you just need to sell 5 things to get toy selling permission then just hit the books or CDs.