An official Usborne Books thread....

Looneylee

Sounds like a good start to me

Cat212

Does anyone sell Usborne books? Is it worth doing?

Credit-Crunched

Cat212 wrote: »

Does anyone sell Usborne books? Is it worth doing?

No and No

Another thinly veiled Multi Layer Marketing, similar to Herbalife, Forever living etc

Selling the books is secondary to annoying your friends and family to sign up and sell the books.

I have literally lost friends to Forever Living as the incessant harassment to sell is beyond.

lincroft1710

There was a longish thread on this board about Usborne books.

NeverInDebt

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lilmissmup

Cat212 wrote: »

Does anyone sell Usborne books? Is it worth doing?

I have just started Cat a month ago and sold over £300 so far. PM me if you want

joeyjimbles

I did it a few years back and the books are lovely. I had some success with an online site and doing country fairs, christmas fairs etc and less with the party side of things. I also had a really supportive manager - and I mean supportive not demanding.

However in the end, for me, I found it hard to sell them at full or even slightly discounted prices when high street booksellers frequently have them on 3for2 deals. To say nothing of the heavy discounts on them in supermarkets and online retailers, so I gave it up. I do know some people who have done very well out of it but it wasn't for me after a while.

Good luck if you decide to do it.

lilmissmup

joeyjimbles wrote: »

I did it a few years back and the books are lovely. I had some success with an online site and doing country fairs, christmas fairs etc and less with the party side of things. I also had a really supportive manager - and I mean supportive not demanding.

However in the end, for me, I found it hard to sell them at full or even slightly discounted prices when high street booksellers frequently have them on 3for2 deals. To say nothing of the heavy discounts on them in supermarkets and online retailers, so I gave it up. I do know some people who have done very well out of it but it wasn't for me after a while.

Good luck if you decide to do it.

Joey do you mean the online Usborne package they offer when you say online site?

soolin

lilmissmup wrote: »

Joey do you mean the online Usborne package they offer when you say online site?

I suspect they mean online retailers that offer big discounts.

For example look at this set

http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?productId=408378&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&topCatId=143756&categoryId=143756&pageNumber=1

soolin

Sorry the link doesn't want to work, however it is

History of Britain Collection - 10 Books (Collection). RRP £79 The book People price £14, and there's lot more.