selling your stuff on Amazon...part three...

seabiscuit_2

I bought my first book from a charity shop for resale - luckily i did want to read it first as its only worth £2 more than i paid :rotfl:

i dont think im going to be a millionaire at this rate

nutty

apprentice tycoon - thanks for your help

I was thinking if i buy in bulk it will work out cheaper but i think i will leave that untill i get a bit better at knowing what sell's.

Dose any one have any tips on what books sell better. righter ect ect

seabiscuit - thats what i am thinking about i dont really no what to buy
but i think i should learn hopefully fast

soolin

nutty, my best sellers so far have been university printed reference books and out of print art books that are suitable for fashion and textile students. I've also done very well out of medical books.

At the lower end of the market I did sell some books about new age religion.

I wouldn't worry about particular authors as personally I can hardly even give away novels, they are just so cheap and available in remainder stores and such like.

Talking of remainder stores, I did check out some very cheap coffee table books in a sale in a local remainder shop, but they would have made a loss after taking into account postage rates, so I dodn't even bother checking those stores out now.

Remember when checking prices to factor in Amazon fees and the cost of postage. I recently sold a book for nearly £30, but after fees and the astronomical postage of almost £6 I ended up with less than £20.

Soo

nutty

Soolin - cheers for the great tips.

I am putting all this down on paper to take with me when I am out to give me some ideas.

Has anyone ever had the idea of ringing all your local charity shops and seeing what they do with the books they no longer need? Do you think they would sell them to me on the cheap? If you did get them on the cheap it wouldn’t really matter how much you got for them as long has it was a profit (within reason).

Thanks nutty

soolin

nutty wrote:

Soolin - cheers for the great tips.

I am putting all this down on paper to take with me when I am out to give me some ideas.

Has anyone ever had the idea of ringing all your local charity shops and seeing what they do with the books they no longer need? Do you think they would sell them to me on the cheap? If you did get them on the cheap it wouldn’t really matter how much you got for them as long has it was a profit (within reason).

Thanks nutty

I would think most charity shops would pulp their unwanted books, but only after having them sit around for a few years. The only different shop is Oxfam that actually have dedicated book stores (which are very pricey!) where they send their better books and DVDs.

I bought a DVD from the Oxfam book shop In Cambridge recently and made a rather nice profit on it. As I felt so guilty I now feel the need to drag all my nice things to the nearest Oxfam shop for them to sell, rather than taking it to the nearest more convenient shop.

Interestingly one book I donated to Oxfam as I couldn't sell it was in the window at £10 and was actually sold but it was only going for about £6 on Amazon which would have eaten up virtually all the profit as it was mega heavy.


Soo

nutty

Soolin - Do you think it would be worth ringing and asking what they do with them and saying I would be willing to give them a donation instead of pulping them :eek:

Have you ever tried ringing one?

thanks nutty

p.s I appreciate your help and I am pressing the thanks for this :beer:

soolin

nutty, I think that for the price of a phone call it is worth a try, you have nothing to lose!

Also try the local library, mine used to sell off old books but they were very expensive and difficult to turn a profit. However , they recently have a new chief librarian who sells off old stock cheaply and I have done very nicely from that source. Ask them whether they are planning any book sales or whether they might be prepared to let you rummage through their discard piles. I now pay 40p per non fiction book, but get the chance to browse before I commit to buy. I don't bother at all with fiction.

Soo

soolin

Also I just wanted to add that even leaving aside the profits to be made I think circulating books in this way benefits everyone. I can't abide waste and seeing books thrown out is horrible, but by keeping them circulating via charity shops and Amazon they stay in the system for everyone to enjoy and don't just add to the ever increasing mountain of waste that we have in the uK.

juno

I ended up with a load of rescued books from a charity shop (fiance's mum works there and got them for us for free), and a few went on readitswapit but the rest wouldn't go at all

nutty

Were did you put them Juno eBay or Amazon