selling your stuff on Amazon - part 5

Angela

Bought a keep fit video for 50p this morning listed it and it sold within an hour for 19.99.
There were no others listed and I couldnt see that anyone was waiting(although I do not know what this looks like as I have never seen it).
Its called cardio bounce if you have it stashed away at the back of your video storage cabinets.

Quite a few school summer fayres on around here tomorrow,I like those as stuff is so cheap,some of these charity shops are getting really expensive nowadays.

Heres to a busy weekend all.

Kaminari_2

Here is my whinge. It is only thinly related to Amazon but wanted an audience of people i know. We signed an tenancy agreement for a property with a garage (Attached to the house) that i was going to use for the expansion of my Amazon empire. We were to move in on the 1st July. EA has just seen the landlord and he is in the process of turning the garage into a studio flat to rent separately. Which defeats the purpose of moving there!

RRRrrrrrrrr!!!

teapot2

Kaminari wrote:

EA has just seen the landlord and he is in the process of turning the garage into a studio flat to rent separately. Which defeats the purpose of moving there!

RRRrrrrrrrr!!!

Hi Kaminari, how annoying, not sure who EA is but if the landlord is turning the garage into a studio flat and you signed a tnenacy agreement which included the garage in its terms surely the landlord is in breach of the tenancy at the very least? Might be worth checking out tho you probably wouldn't want to start looking for somewhere else at this late stage?

Also if your rent was set to include the garage you could ask for a reduction and maybe use it to rent a lockup? I know you can do that in some areas - depends where you live. Might be worth asking around or advertising in a free paper for one???

Good luck
Teapot

Kaminari_2

Thanks Teapot, The house was not in the best condition, it only won us over due to the space and the garage. It has been on the market for more than 6 months. It is close to the centre of London so garages are at a premium for the area. Our back up property is still on the market. It is cheaper, in much better condition and in a better area short walk to the river in Putney. The big downfall is that it doesn't have the space for me to build the Amazon empire. I will just have to hire storage space! Part of me feels that when the landlord finds out that we wont rent the place without the garage he might go back on his plans. the place has been empty for so long that he might not risk it. We'll see how it goes over the weekend.

grimelda

Anyone got some advice? I sold a romance novel for £0.01p to someone in the US. She's therefore paid £0.01 for the book and £6 for postage! :eek: Should I email her and bring this to her attention or just send it and hope she doesn't try to return it later on? I mean, romance novels are all the same; surely she could buy one locally for a fraction of that?!? What should I do?

princessmoneysaver

grimelda wrote:

Anyone got some advice? I sold a romance novel for £0.01p to someone in the US. She's therefore paid £0.01 for the book and £6 for postage! :eek: Should I email her and bring this to her attention or just send it and hope she doesn't try to return it later on? I mean, romance novels are all the same; surely she could buy one locally for a fraction of that?!? What should I do?

No I wouldn't email her, she will have known the price before she bought it so surely it's her problem. Maybe she can't get this book there?

seabiscuit_2

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

seabiscuit - watch that date closely, ebay don't email you and say that they are renewing your shop for the next month, they sit veeeerrrryyyy quiet and hope that you'll forget and carry on.

thanks - ive made a note on my free dvd rental list of the date in case i decide to cancel it

btw speaking of free dvd rentals - very small boast - i just got emailed to be told Ive won an Ipod 2GB nano via a free trial - im soo chuffed

plus the whinge earlier worked and ive sold another item (cheap but still a sale)

i love this thread

Kaminari_2

Grim, she would have been aware of the postage cost when she confirmed sale. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

apprentice_tycoon

It's been a mixture of triumph and disaster on this thread today - well done for those that... errrr.... did well and hard luck for those with problems.

PIP report

a few days ago I said that I'd use the 'shape sorter' frame thingy that the Post Office will be using in August, they say that it's wide enough for DVDs, well, yes and no.

It's wide enough if it's just a DVD in a thin jiffy or wrapped in bubble and brown paper (I tried them both for the sake of this experiment) but the problem came with the 'document enclosed' label. I fold the packing slip into 3 lengthwise so that the address is just showing then fold it in half to fit in the plastic holder, when this is stuck on the parcel it won't go through the slot - unless you shove it through which they won't accept, it has to 'pass freely' through the slot. So I'm going to have to have a re-think about how I label them, I like the 'docs enc labels, they look really smart and if I just put the nvoice inside the jiffy it's a bit pointless having a 'docs enc' with just an address in so it looks like it's back to cutting the address off and stickiing it to the package.

Jazzy_B

I listed an unopened toy a couple of weeks ago, as a "New" item. There was a buyer waiting. I priced mine at just under the lowest price. When I checked yesterday, the buyer was still waiting, and I realised there did not seem to be an option for a buyer waiting on a new item, so I changed my item to "Used, as new" and dropped the price. The "Buyer waiting " sign disappeared .
How do I know if there is really a buyer waitng or not?