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

purplepatch

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

your sig won't show till you make another post.

Oh, that explains a lot

seabiscuit_2

now lets do a test to see if my new sig works?

elona

Amazon club member0009????

apprentice_tycoon

grimelda wrote:

Some may remember a book I asked about on Real Estate investment a while ago which I bought for £4. Well this morning I sold it for £25! So after fees I get £22, will probably be quite expensive to post but I'm sure I'll make at least £10 on it. Woo hoo! I was beginning to think it would never go. I'd put the price down twice as well.

This one slipped past me, I think that you'll get nearer £15 for it, it can't be that heavy - nice sale.

Interesting that you had to put the price down to get to the sale, it makes you wonder if the buyer had seen it before and thought it was too expensive and waited a while.

I suppose a keen buyer could always email and say that he'd buy the book if you knocked a bit off, I think I'd go for it if it was a book that I'd had for a while

katchambers

Hi everyone and welcome to all the new amazonians this week :wave: :hello:

Firstly to go back to what AT was trying to prove a few days ago, I currently have 267 unique book listings but have many duplicates so I probably have about 500 books officially up there and I am currently selling about 7-10 per week so it looks like AT's theory still holds true to me. Obviously its going to depend very much on the price, competition and demand of the books you sell but it looks like a ratio of 1:50 is about right.

Amazon update:
So I went to the bootsale as usual this sunday, it was slim pickings this week, got half round the thing before I found a book I wanted and our bootsale is a mile long, however, as I got nearer the end I saw a youngish couple were selling some university textbooks - hurrah, but they were selling them for £3 each...boooooo! So I kept walking, found a few more books and then took them back to the car. When I got back to the car I though, it's 10:45am, they will probably want to go home soon, the weather isn't nice and its getting on, why not make them an offer. So I went back, had another look at the books, there were 17 in total, 80% were in perfect condition and were fairly recent, so I asked them how much they want for all the books, they told me to make an offer so I said £15 and voila they said yes and reduced the price from £3 a book to 95p per book :j Carrying them back to my car was not easy, they were in a box and they weighed a tonne, I was alone, I dropped them once and had to put them down 3 times!!! :eek:

Anyway, listed them, some very highly priced so I was very happy and monday I sold one of them for £27, thereby making back the money I spent on all books and £9 profit on top (after postage), so now when/if the others sell it's all profit!!

I also sold another book from the pallet today for £5 :T

Kat x

apprentice_tycoon

Kat, that's a great boot sale story but you said that it was couple? I'd have asked for a hand back to the car!

I saw someone buying a shopping trolley at a boot sale the other day, it wasn't like the modern ones that are like a bag on wheels (not good for rough terrain), this was the deep wicker basket sort with a bent cane handle like a hockey stick, it looked the the Rolls Royce of trolleys and I'd have been delighted to own it - think how much [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] stock, that you can get in one of those.

tabath

Have just joined the club as no 15! Not sold any books for 10 days though. Am going to a local household auction tommorrow to see if I can get some freah stock cheap!

Murtle

numberthree wrote:

Having a rought time at the moment - no sales and a buyer from the Listbooks site who says she hasn't recevied her book and has left neg feedback, but has clicked the box which says she has received the book!!!

I think what has annoyed me more than anything is that she hasn't contacted me directly at all, but has gone through the administrator - who runs the site in his spare time of course!

The book only went for £1.48, but I wonder if she's trying to pull a fast one. The really annoying thing is that as a seller it is far simpler to give a refund and keep the peace than fight your corner sometimes!

I'm wating for a reply back regarding the fact that she has clicked her book received button - shan't hold my breath!

Hi

I saw this and thought I'd respond, as it's the first time I've seen the site mentioned on here! Anyway, I am registered with the site, and bought/requested a book sometime ago, I remember looking for the book sometime ago.....I don't know how payment works so I could well have paid for it, to be honest I don't know. However, to my surprise I received an email saying that the book had been dispatched, and if I clicked on the link I could leave feedback. It was the only link on the page, so thinking "well I haven't received it, I'll go and check the details on line" I clicked the link which promoptly took me to the page in the site telling the item had been marked as received.....it's not but that seems to be where the link takes you, I thought it would be like ebay or amazon, where it just takes you to the information and then you could contact the person to say not received etc. However, on looking on the site I couldn't find any information to help me in my situation or a way to resolve it except the email for contacting, so I emailed the situation to that address, although I can say I never received a reply! However, I don't believe I left feedback......if I did it was by luck not purposeful....I've just checked I haven't

nads

Top bargain their Kat! Not books but putting in a ridiculously low offer for multiple item buys works great and the fact you waited to end of the car boot sale day is a top tip.

BTW, erm what is AT's Theory?!

grex9101

purplepatch wrote:

Well, I spent so long trying to edit and save signature, still without any luck, and now somebody else has got number 7!!

:embarasse

sorry, i'd kinda "bagsied" no.7 last night....