selling your stuff on Amazon...part four...

princessmoneysaver

I've just listed a few more books.

I've only sold 6 items since I started on Amazon but I've made £34.79 when the fees have come off which is a LOT MORE than I would have got on ebay - most of them hadn't sold on ebay after being relisted loads of times.

Thanks to Apprentice Tycoon to all your help with these threads as I would not have done this without your help.

apprentice_tycoon

I used to have an ebay shop that was just for china and antiquey stuff and decided to close it a few months ago. I had the 'bright' idea a few days ago to re-open it just for books so I could pick a few out from my amazon list and take advantage of the cheap listing fees and long durations that you get in a shop to move a few along.

I've just spent the best part of an hour listing 8 books to go on ebay - and I know now why I've not done this before. The photo bit is easy so no problems there...then I used SEARCH to see if there are any others with the same title, are they cheaper because they're tatty? how much are they asking for postage? this involves many clicks not a quick glance down the list on one page as on amazon

So then I get my turbo lister page up, try and get as much information in the title as possible, next problem is finding a category to put it in which isn't always obvious, then the description..I surely have to write something about the book other than it's condition because there's no gereral synopsis and reviews let alone a page count and size mentioned, I haven't read the book and never will so it's a quick speed read of the backpage notes to pick out the bullet points and get them typed up. Then decide on a price and postage cost, shall I take 'best offers' or not?

I am truly FED UP and I'm off to do some gardening or cooking or scrubbing the kitchen floor or cleaning the bathroom with a toothbrush...anything is better than listing books on ebay.

princessmoneysaver

Just sold another Playstation game for £5.77!

pipkin71

I have been selling on Amazon for three weeks now, and have been very pleased with the results. However, for the first time, I have gone two days without any sales.

So, I thought I would just have a whinge about not selling anything since Friday to see if part 4 holds the same magic as part three seemed to have for many of you lol!

Regards
Pipkin

110frankie

I had a cancelled sale yesterday nut I was too busy to post a whinge.
I did, however, decide that I'd have whinge today - and the same book sold this morning !

So I wonder if just thinking about typing a whinge works as well :-)

Amazombie

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

selling fees and postage allowance

Amazon gives you £2.32 to go towards the postage of the book

That isnt correct its only £ 2.26.

Christina_F

Istarted listing on Amazon last week - listed about 25 items in total. the frist day after I listed themI sold a book - I was on a high. However I havent sold anything since so Ihave come on to have a whinge and see if that will give some luck!!

linnyp

I see that Amazon suggest you should only use new packaging. Do you? Or do you occasionally recycle padded envelopes?

princessmoneysaver

I always send 2nd class with recycled packaging & never had a complaint yet.

frivolous_fay

For the whingers... worth checking...

View your Amazon Payments account and billing history > View recent Payments transactions and invoicing history

.. just to make sure there's nothing fishy going on there. For some reason my account was marked as 'locked' and no sales were going through.