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

numberthree

I have around 400 listings now, but on the 350 that I have run for the last 6 months or so I sell 4 or 5 per week. A couple more would be a good week for me and a quiet week would be 1 or 2.

So probably around a similar ratio to you AT

I'm hoping for a few more sales now my stock has increased a bit. I must admit I'd like to run around 500 and sign up for the Pro Seller, but I just don't have the space!!

Yes I have had a quiet couple of weeks but things will pick up again soon I'm sure - you seem to get quiet patches and I've noticed that the 3rd week in the month can be slow as I assume people have already spent up and are wating for their salaries to be paid in!

Best of luck to everyone

Murtle

I have 75 listed and am selling 2 per week - but then I've only been selling for a month!!!!

soolin

I did have about 400 listed but have removed some as after the postal increases I could no longer sell at a profit, in fact some would have turned me a loss. I also removed a number of 1p books for the same reason.

I'm down to about 280 books at the moment, and selling about 1 every 8 days. I have shifted some onto ebay and sell about 4-6 a week on there (about half of what I list) , but of course there isn't a real comparison as I only list the ones on ebay I think will sell, whereas everything goes onto Amazon.

I've just been offered some books by a complete stranger, knocked on my car window today as I unloaded my shopping and said that someone at Church had said I would take second hand books, so could I go and collect them from him? He's calling back in a day or two with details and he says he wants nothing for them, he just wants them taken away!

Soo

Murtle

Hope some of them are reasonable books Soolin!!!

110frankie

Only been at it for about six weeks. I've listed a totalo of 26 books and sold twenty of them, which sounds like a good rate to me. Problem is I don't seem to have the time to go through the house - we have bookcases overflowing in every room - when I do I will be able to put a few hundred on I would guess.

Posted two books at a good profit this morning... but I got it completely wrong with two ebay items I also posted. The postage wiped out all my profit :-(
My watchword has to be weigh, weigh and weigh again :-)

soolin

Murtle wrote:

Hope some of them are reasonable books Soolin!!!

You just know I'm gonna come back in a few days and ask where the best place to dump three crates of tattty books is

Soo

Murtle

soolin wrote:

You just know I'm gonna come back in a few days and ask where the best place to dump three crates of tattty books is

Soo

Ha ha ha, no you won't you know where to take those ones just make sure it's far far away, incase they recognise them!!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Seriously though, I hope there will be some useful ones in there for you to sell on for a reasonable amount!!!

x x

larmy16

soolin wrote:

You just know I'm gonna come back in a few days and ask where the best place to dump three crates of tattty books is

Soo

Soolin I once sold a book about the Pyramids of Egypt - quite frankly it was in a right state and I described it as such, yet you could still read it!!! Somebody bought it - only £2.00 admittedly but it was a very light Penguin book so I did make a profit as it only cost me 20p.

Well thank the Lord, I finally had a sale today after only one last week! I was beginning to get really fed up. Those " Sold - Dispatch now" emails do so much for the psyche!!!!

seabiscuit_2

Ive got just over 100 items listed on amazon and average 2/3 sales a week so AT's theory seems to hold water

btw good luck soo with all those books

soolin

I've just sold a couple more books on ebay for £3 a piece plus p and p, both were only 1p books on Amazon so I am quite pleased with the sales. Both were BIN shop items with best offer 'offered' but both were bought at full price with no offer made.

Soo