Selling Your Stuff on Amazon Part 13 - Advice for newbies in first two posts

soolin

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Any chance we have a tame pro-merchant seller? Pretty please?

If it isn't simple items like books or CDs it won;t work even if someone else tries , but if you want to pm me I'll give it a go.

Kite2010

Stupid question, but when did Amazon get rid of the 60 day expiry date on non-pro listings?

soolin

Kite2010 wrote: »

Stupid question, but when did Amazon get rid of the 60 day expiry date on non-pro listings?

I reckon it is about 18 months ago now.

JesaRose

Its very quiet on here, not much better on Amazon either. Sold 2 items in the last week but one was cira £20 so not complaining. How is everyone else doing?

soolin

Jesa Rose, I am so sorry I clicked on edit your post rather than quote. I'm really sorry as it looks like I have altered something and i didn't.

my actual response is :

It's nearly dead here, I am getting to the stage of having to consider whether or not to cull most of my books and give up my pro merchant account. Once the postage goes up again next April (and I am sure it will) I can't see how I can carry on.

teapot2

JesaRose wrote: »

Its very quiet on here, not much better on Amazon either. Sold 2 items in the last week but one was cira £20 so not complaining. How is everyone else doing?

I should say this very quietly in case I jinx the selling fairy but my sales have been surprisingly good lately. Not anything high value and some has been listed for over 3 years and stuff I thought I'd never get rid off, so thats good. But I haven't listed anything new for quite a while and that usually means sales grind to a halt so I'm mystified. I'm also selling books where there are far cheaper ones listed ie £5+ cheaper in some cases!!!

What I am lacking though is feedback, am down to one again for 30 days. I had the same a while back then a burst of several feedback on the same day. Of course the problem with that is that they all then 'disappear' on the same day.

GM sales have also been trickling in slowly so thats good too :T

MrsBartolozzi

I have a quick question please.
I've just ahd an email saying I have my first Amazon book sale!! Yippee for me, but what are the regs on packaging? My new jiffy envelopes are hiding in the loft somewhere and all I have downstairs are used (but still good - I'd use for ebay) jiffy bags and brown paper and bubble wrap. Obviously it would be easier for me to reuse an envelope, but is this frowned upon by Amazon??

ETA: just found the packaging instructions on Amazon - clean new paper and bubblewrap it is then.

teapot2

Hi Mrs B well done on the sale - you'll be hooked now like the rest of us . Some folk do use recycled packaging and make a point of mentioning it in their listings. As long as your item is well protected and looks fairly neat I don't think it matters too much. Posting within the two business days is the most important thing I reckon.

petestan

There are some items I sell whereby I only make a few pennies so with these I tend to use recycled bags with extra bubble wrap as padding but on most items I use new ones, as teapot2 says the most important thing is to send within 2 days.

numberthree

If only I had some sales so I needed to decide whether to use new or recyled packaging

Very very quiet here at the moment. September started well but has died completely in the last week