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

Amazombie

katchambers wrote:

Thanks sooo I have found one in bedford, which is about 40 mins from me so I might have to trek out there.Kat x

Why would you want an 80 min round trip? Surely the cost of that would far outweigh ordering them online from Viking who are cheaper anyway? and next day delivery!

princessmoneysaver

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

We've all found that the sooner you can send it the better, you stand more chance of getting the best feedback if you send it quickly.
I'd do it tomorrow if you can - and if you can always send them out within 24 hours I'd suggest that you add this bit of info to your descriptions to make yours more attractive than the rest.

Posted it out first thing this morning, thanks!

voodoozoe

PLEASE...PLEASE...PLEASE!!!!!!!!! Take a tip from AT and MATCH the book price rather than undercutting :eek:


If you start undercutting, your book will very quickly drop down to a penny and we'll all lose out


It's good to hear everyones sales are taking off...maybe it'll happen to me soon

soolin

Hope mine pick up soon as well. The only thing I've sold in the past 7 days has been an old VHS tape and I only made about 40p on that as it was heavy and cost £1.14 to send it second class (I was expecting it to be 93p or thereabouts like most VHS tapes).

At the moment I'm doing better on ebay with books than I am on Amazon, but I suppose it will even up again soon.

Soo

Leothecat

Well I am totally peeved off and disillusioned with the whole Amazon malarky! I have not had a sale in 3 weeks!!! YES, 3 WEEKS!
I have 60 books listed, mostly non fiction in the catagories talked about on here and I still can't get a blinking sale!! Am going to give up if nothing happens this week - hubby is going to kill me if I keep appearing home from the charity shops laden with books. LOL

tabath

Leothecat - I'm sure things will pick up - keep at it, you've more books listed than me!! Thats a good thing. Anyway I have only sold 2 and haven't had any feedback yet. Anyone got any suggestions about trying to get feedback? Is it important?

apprentice_tycoon

Leo - I agree with tabath, keep at it and it will turn for you.

Have you checked your prices and descriptions lately? If you've been undercut then you might want to lower your prices, the best way to do this is just to match with your competitor not undercut him because it will all spiral downwards with both of you getting cheaper.

Can your descriptions be beefed up a bit? can you offer to send books out on the day of purchase? are you using the best wordings? eg you could say that a book cover is scuffed but that makes it sound tatty on the other hand if you describe it as having a little shelf wear it sounds better, you are still making the point that the cover is not mint but in a *nicer* way.

If your books are quite low priced then maybe you might want to offer them on www.readitswapit and see if you can swap them for something slightly better

jo_b_2

tabath wrote:

Anyway I have only sold 2 and haven't had any feedback yet. Anyone got any suggestions about trying to get feedback? Is it important?

I don't think that feedback is that important on Amazon tbh. I sold about 10 items I think before I got any feedback. Only a very small proportion of buyers bother to leave any feedback at all.

Some sellers on here send emails out when dispatching a book and ask the buyer to leave feedback. I don't personally. Otherwise Amazon will automatically email the buyer about a month after the sale and ask them to leave feedback.

Leothecat

Thanks tabath and AT for your words of encouragement! What a lovely bunch you all are!
I think I shall go into my sellers account and ensure the wording and descriptions are all the best the can be. I'll also check my prices.
Thanks again - you've made me feel a bit better.

soolin

Whinging on here really does work...I just made a sale :j

A small one, but a profit nonetheless.

Ok, so can I please now sell one of my really expensive books........pretty please. (whine whine whine)

Soo