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

apprentice_tycoon

juno wrote:

But if they did reduce postage, you'd get confused people buying items off different sellers and moaning when the postage wasn't combined.

The current way, sellers can make themselves look better by offering a partial refund, but they're not obliged to.

I agree, the buyers are not going to understand that each buyer is a separate entity.

I had a double sale a few weeks ago, it was a first for me so I refunded a chunk of money to the surprised buyer.
If I have 2 books that are linked togther in a series or whatever I refer to the other in each listing and say that I'll refund some of the postage costs

princessmoneysaver

Just got an email to say my payment's going through - another £97 better off with selling stuff I don't use anymore. I'm very pleased!

110frankie

I always put a return label on all my post - don't trust the PO either. It used to be an Able label, I still have a huge packet left, but in the last year or so all sorts of junk mail people have sent me address labels , I have them from the British Heart Foundation, St John ambulance and the Woodland Trust ... so I stick those on.
And I only send the packing slip 'cos often I'd rather the buyer didn't know how much less the postage is than they have paid Amazon!

Annie021063

Hi guys
Well I had another trip round a car boot today (wet and cold) When I got back and listed the books I bought I was pleasantly suprised to find 2 of them listed at over £30 (one was 'put your science to work' book and another was 'John Bull's Island') I know I haven't sold them yet but who knows???
Today marks the end of my first week selling on amazon and I am so far due over £61 when I get my payment on the 1st June. I know that is unlikely to continue as high as that but even a few quid every couple of weeks helps. What sort of payouts do you seasoned sellers get?? I have at least one sale every day except today where I have had none (Boo Hoo!!) but still the day is not yet over.
would you believe it - just got e-mail about another sale.

ANOTHER NOTE - WHAT EXPERIENCES DO YOU HAVE OF BUYING AND SELLING VINYL (RECORDS)

princessmoneysaver

I have made £256.29 since I started selling on 20th March, this was my payments for each 2 weekly period

£11.04
£74.33
£41.89
£31.19
£97.84

Seem to get about 2/3 sales a week at the moment although this is just a rough average.

Annie021063

Thanks Yvonne - you have done well - I hope I can keep around your totals. How many books/items do you have listed? I have 157 items at present and always on the look out for others. I can't believe I haven't done this sooner I am really enjoying it and am getting quite a kick out of my sales.
Lets hope we both sell more today and every day.
bfn

Annie021063

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Hi Annie,


If the cd's aren't in the market place data base then you won't be able to sell it there, you could try ebay with it.

You can get the colour and smiley by going to 'edit your signature' in the user CP. There is a big A on the tool bar thingy at the top, that's where you can chose your colour, then click on a smiley where you want it to go

I dont seem to have this tool bar thingy - can anyone advise me of where I might find it???

apprentice_tycoon

Annie, it's on all the MSE pages - go to Martins head, look down 3 inches or so then look right, it's a salmon pink colour

Annie021063

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Annie, it's on all the MSE pages - go to Martins head, look down 3 inches or so then look right, it's a salmon pink colour

Hi ok yeah got that one its when i go into the edit signature bit I dont have any options to add colour etc
any suggestions??

apprentice_tycoon

OK, I'm with you now - go to edit options, right at the bottom there's this box (copied below)
click it to go to WYSIWYG and then go back to edit signature and see if you have the tool bar at the top of the box.



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