Bigbubble's disgraceful SOA - help

CLAPTON

has teenage son signed on at the job centre and is he receiving JSA?..i know some dont like the embarassment factor but moneys money and the family need it.

all_hours

Bigbubble wrote:

One question - I have thousands of books. How is the best way to sell them?

On Amazon the majority are listed for 1p (why would anyone do that as the postage rates look like they could be problematic?) and on ebay many books don't attract any bids at all.

The 1p books are the small paperbacks - the seller makes a little on the postage credit. There's a big thread for amazon sellers - sorry I don't have the link.

Don't forget Royal Mail's postage rates change in August.

Bigbubble

kevin_M wrote:

one thing to look at is a capital1 plat its 18 months 0% and u could prolly BT a few cards accross to it. rember to close cards down that u get to 0. to stop the temptation of spending on them.

Thanks -this makes sense (if I then close cards down). I've just been a bit nervous about applying for (another) credit card in case 100 police officers swoop down and arrest me:eek: !!!

Bigbubble

CLAPTON wrote:

has teenage son signed on at the job centre and is he receiving JSA?..i know some dont like the embarassment factor but moneys money and the family need it.

He has - about 5 weeks ago - but hasn't received anything yet. God knows what people without mums to feed them would do. Oh yeah, they would probably go down to the offices and demand a better service.

I don't think he finds it embarrassing (nor should he) but I don't think the interests of the family will be forefront if ever he does receive anything!!!

misskool

Bigbubble wrote:

One question - I have thousands of books. How is the best way to sell them?

On Amazon the majority are listed for 1p (why would anyone do that as the postage rates look like they could be problematic?) and on ebay many books don't attract any bids at all.

If you are planning to list a lot of books, Amazon do a Pro-Merchant account where you pay a set fee a month and they don't charge a per-book rate. This is why bookshops can list books as low as 1p, they make almost all the profit of £2.75 postage. You have to be able to sell more than 30 books in that month though. Best just to list rare books, textbooks, expensive ones on Amazon.

The other one is https://www.greenmetropolis.com. You get £3.00 for each book sold (no postage fees so light paperbacks are best) and 5p goes to the Woodland Trust.

REMEMBER, POSTAGE PRICES ARE CHANGING.

Cantdance_2

I'd also be keen to know what's supposedly wrong with Atlantic - I've just switched to them too and with the plan I'm on, both my electricity and gas are going to be around 4p/ kWH cheaper than British Gas (and that's pre-price rise!)

Surely it's the kWH figure that's the sole indicator of whether you're going to save money or not?

James