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

soolin

becky004 wrote: »

When I returned to selling I was automatically shoved onto the "confirm when shipped" thingy. Have not had a sale for 3 days now even though I have some high ranked books.

I did just tsruggle to enough sales to cover the 30 needed for my pro fees, but it's much slower than this time last year. I've started double listing on greenmet at knock down prices and have sold 3 in two weeks which is better than I would normally hope for on GM. I suspect at least two of those though were bought by resellers for Amazon, but they were no use to me as they had been sat there for ages with no sales.

I think we are all on 'confirm when shipped now' AFAIK the last of us were moved across about 6 weeks ago.

tirlittan

Hiya all. I've had couple of good sales recently, which I'm very pleased with. Otherwise my sales tend to just trikcle along, usually couple in one week, then nothing for couple of weeks.

soolin

I've had 3 days with no sales again, in fact I was so concerned that I have actually just checked that my inventory is live. At this time of year I am usually selling an average of 2 a day minumum, this is becoming a real issue for me now.

Thank heavens there is still a lot of movement on ebay, I'd be forced to stop buying shoes otherwise.

ekboy

My Amazon sales seem to be like many people on here, none for a few days then a couple in one day. Though with less than 300 books listed, I seem to average the best part of half a dozen sales a week so it keeps ticking over.

Just wish I had more stock. Anyone know who won the 42000 books on ebay a few weeks ago that went for just over £3000 ? If only I had had the space to store them I would have bid !

numberthree

My sales have been absolute rubbish since the middle of October.

I used to sell around 1 a day but now it is down to a couple a week.

I have 30% more stock (books, no real difference in type or quality) than this time last year, but sales are running at less than half of last years

soolin

I did the switch on holiday settings and then switch them off again trick this morning and I got two sales. This is getting desperate though.

aaarrrggghhh

Well, I took the plunge and registered as a seller on Amazon last Saturday night. I was very cautious in listing items (I also sell on eBay) and only ended up sticking 10 books on. Overnight, I sold one of them, so I was very impressed. I've since added another ten items and my sales are already at four. Not bad in just three days with so few items listed. The fees are worse than eBay though, but considering I'd have had books listed on 'Good 'Til Cancelled' for anything up to a year, it may just be cheaper in some instances.

JesaRose

I had 4 on my home account over the weekend which is ok as I only have about 110 things listed.
On the work one I sold 15 over the weekend out of 1500 items listed. 3 more sales since I left the office at lunchtime too

soolin

JesaRose wrote: »

I had 4 on my home account over the weekend which is ok as I only have about 110 things listed.
On the work one I sold 15 over the weekend out of 1500 items listed. 3 more sales since I left the office at lunchtime too

I'll try not to be too jealous :A That's quite good going, I'm currently running at about 1400 listed and am right back down to around 8 or so a week which is a disaster.

JesaRose

We do have the advantage of being a charity so thats probably helping quite a bit and we had a lot of brand new boxed lego toys donated so those are selling really well at the moment, probably for christmas. Our weekend sales are usually than during the week by quite a lot I think