selling your stuff on Amazon - part 5

apprentice_tycoon

I think that it looks very odd with the description all bunched up - I suppose I'll get used to it in time but I prefer the other layout

VeryTrying_2

Having read AT's first post (for which many thanks) this morning, I trawled through my bookshelves/storage boxes for books to get rid of. I haven't listed anything of much value, most probably because I've started off with paperbacks under one inch thick!

I was worried about selling something which cost me more to post than Amazon paid me in total, so I'm only going for thin books to begin with.

soolin

I just took another boot full of 1p books to the Oxfam recycling bank and when I got there someone was just unloading boxes of books from their car, I waited until they drove off and went and had a nosy.

The recycling bin was full, so all the unloaded boxes were just stacked up beside it open to the elements, and I hate books left where they can be damaged. There were two loads of chilcdrens books that I left as they rarely sell, a couple of boxes of very old 'classic' stories that I also left and a two boxes of readers digest condensed books, also left.

I did bring home a bag of self help books and a box and a half of mills and Boon type things and I'm just trying to find somewhere to hide them before my OH sees. Obviously I bought my own books home again rather than leave them in the open where they might get damaged, so am running out of hiding places :eek:

Fingers crossed for me that I have more than 1p books in the rescued boxes!

Soo

Hairy_Hat_Man

soolin wrote:

I just took another boot full of 1p books to the Oxfam recycling bank and when I got there someone was just unloading boxes of books from their car, I waited until they drove off and went and had a nosy.

The recycling bin was full, so all the unloaded boxes were just stacked up beside it open to the elements, and I hate books left where they can be damaged. There were two loads of chilcdrens books that I left as they rarely sell, a couple of boxes of very old 'classic' stories that I also left and a two boxes of readers digest condensed books, also left.

I did bring home a bag of self help books and a box and a half of mills and Boon type things and I'm just trying to find somewhere to hide them before my OH sees. Obviously I bought my own books home again rather than leave them in the open where they might get damaged, so am running out of hiding places :eek:

Fingers crossed for me that I have more than 1p books in the rescued boxes!

Soo

Doesn't this constitute theft?

catznine

Just sold my 2nd book! :j Am definately going to brave exploring the loft now! :eek:

apprentice_tycoon

Hairy_Hat_Man wrote:

Doesn't this constitute theft?

I don't think so - the books were left at the side of the bin where they could have got wet, or blown about and generally spoiled and if Soo hadn't picked them up someone else would have.

The thing is I know that Soo, like the rest of us have spent, collectively many, possibly hundreds of pounds in charity shops buying books that under other circumstances wouldn't have sold - remember we buy the wierd, wacky and dry as a bone academic books that the charity shop would struggle to find a passer-by to buy. Also, we've discussed in the past about when you go into a charity shop it's hard to come out empty handed, you always end up buying something that you hadn't planned on buying, the charity shops do very well out of us Amazon sellers.

soolin

Hairy_Hat_Man wrote:

Doesn't this constitute theft?

The man had unloaded them but had not put them in the donation bin they were literally put by the side of the road abutting the bottle bank. As it turns out the doxen or so I've checked are 1p books which I don't bother with, so I now have the choice to either take them back and leave them by the side of the road until the next collection, or drop them by the hospice shop where most of my books go.

I was donating them to the local hospital library as they told me they would have as many novels as I could carry, but by the third box they asked me to stop as their understanding of 'I have lots of books' wasn't the same as my understanding of 'lots' and they were overwhelmed.

I'm worried now that I may have done something wrong even though the Readers digests all went in another car and some of the books I had in my car were also taken by another person (he wanted my Readers Digest manuals) so maybe as I have to go back to work I'll take them and put them back. I'm not leaving the last few boxes of my own books though as they'll just get ruined if it rains as there is unlikely to be any collection for several days.

Soo

soolin

Retired police man across the road (who thinks I am over reacting in a big way) says it is illegal to leave these books by the side of the road as we have local fly tipping laws due to major problems around the dumping of goods. When he stopped laughing at me he suggests I put them in carrier bags and take them to the local school who are having a fete tomorrow, but he thinks they will probably refuse them as they are only Mills and Boon type things.

The only good thing about all this is that now I know the school are having a fete I have a great opportunity of getting rid of some of my childrens books I've had in storage for a while.

Soo

Angela

I am now the proud owner of 19 boxes(the deep banana type) of various books.
They cost £22.
Some of them look pretty old which may be a good thing and maybe not,I have never looked at old books to buy.
Havent started listing yet,still trying to find places to hide them,not sure if I can disguise this many.
But they only sell by the pallet,in fact he wants to get rid of all the books he has,unfortunately I dont have a triple garage to store that many.
But one of the chaps said he was going to look at a load they have just had in and sort through them,hes keeping all the non fiction for me,he has my tel number.
By the way the place I have been to today only just passes as a auction,more like where is the last resort to dump c**p after its been to a bootfair.

larmy16

funkyfunkymonkey wrote:

You are talking about an Amazon purchase aren't you? There's no reason they cannot do an immediate refund if they can't fulfil the order. I would be really cross too :mad: - I think I would phone Amazon Customer Services and complain.

Hi FFM, I have got the refund, but how ironic is this? Tesco Extra have the dvd I wanted (John Shuttleworth's 500 bus stops) and they will be dispatching it tomorrow! After all that palaver - it's been over two months trying to buy this off Amazon. Both sellers took the money and both sellers could not supply the dvd after a month of waiting for both of them!!!!

I did pay a bit more to Tesco, but at least they have it (I hope)!!!:)