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

seabiscuit_2

i had my first proper looksee around the local charity shops but i think that i live near some of you lot because the shops had been pretty well stripped of decent books, but also i seem to have the expensive priced books left

managed to get one tho that is worth a couple of pounds more than i paid - now to see if it sells

soolin

My local charity shops are no good at all as the books are often more expensive than they are on ebay or Amazon anyway. In Oxfam last week they were asking £1.50 for a well read novel that still had the £2.73 Tesco sticker on it, and that was in their bargain bin.

They must consider this is an affluent area or something, I've never seen books selling for less than a pound or two in any charity shop here.

Soo

seabiscuit_2

soolin wrote:

My local charity shops are no good at all as the books are often more expensive than they are on ebay or Amazon anyway. In Oxfam last week they were asking £1.50 for a well read novel that still had the £2.73 Tesco sticker on it, and that was in their bargain bin.

They must consider this is an affluent area or something, I've never seen books selling for less than a pound or two in any charity shop here.

Soo

ahh i am local to you then :rotfl:

im only joking but that does sound just like my local shops

soolin

seabiscuit wrote:

ahh i am local to you then :rotfl:

im only joking but that does sound just like my local shops

Shops in different areas do vary, I used to work occasionally in a neighbouring borough that is supposedly 'deprived' and the charity shops there were incredibly cheap. I could buy clothes and things for the children at a fraction of the cost I could locally. Actually, that has given me an idea, I might go back on an outing just to look for books.....

Soo

seabiscuit_2

soolin wrote:

Shops in different areas do vary, I used to work occasionally in a neighbouring borough that is supposedly 'deprived' and the charity shops there were incredibly cheap. I could buy clothes and things for the children at a fraction of the cost I could locally. Actually, that has given me an idea, I might go back on an outing just to look for books.....

Soo

if I knew about amazon 5 years ago when I used to live in bradford - it was a mecca for cheap charity shops, plus shipley being slightly posher had some brilliant posher stuff but still cheaply priced

me and a mate used to do a charity shop raid once a week

those were the days - the amount of stuff i could have bought then

oh well

Kaminari_2

The local Oxfam has turned into an specialty Oxfam bookshop. I thought i would go take a look but realised their prices were on par with being new. Not much of a profit margin in that! Lucky there are a few other carity shops in the area doing books for 50p.

larmy16

Kaminari wrote:

The local Oxfam has turned into an specialty Oxfam bookshop. I thought i would go take a look but realised their prices were on par with being new. Not much of a profit margin in that! Lucky there are a few other carity shops in the area doing books for 50p.

I find the Oxfam and British Heart Foundation are hopeless to pick up a bargain. Paperbacks around £1.50-1.75 and larger educational or speciality books £3.99 upwards. No good. Don't even look in there. There is another one in a local village that charges a lot for their books, so I take all my no-hopers there so I cant buy them back by mistake!

Kaminari_2

I only looked at the price of two books in the store, they were paperbacks on chess, one was £7 and the other was £6. I find the cancer research centre on the pricey side as well. I guess it does all go to charity in the end but if i'm not making a profit i can't reinvest it by buying more books.

juno

It depends with Cancer Research. One in town does children's books for 10p, and I can't remember the adult price but it's good too. But one in the village starts at £1!

Bella13_2

I used to have a similar problem with charity shops being expensive, and went to some "deprived" areas and picked up a few - some were cheaper some weren't. Recently though, some of my local charity shops seem to have dropped their prices quite a bit, so I visit those regularly (although I haven't been out book hunting for a while). I have two Oxfam shops near me - one is very expensive (and has a lot of books - not sure if this is a specialist one), the other is quite cheap!

Stumbled upon an MS charity shop in a very affluent area near me a while ago, which was selling all paperbacks for 10p, and all hardbacks for 25p. I actually was taking down ISBNs to go away and check till the penny dropped that it would be cheaper for me to take a chance and buy them at 10p each, rather than pay the petrol to return!! (To say I have lost all my brain cells since having baby is an understatement!!)

One of the 10p books I sold for £10, so I was a little bit chuffed with that! I also had a 50p buy which went for about £17, but my sales have been virtually non-existant for a few weeks now. (Thought if I whinged, it might do the trick!)