selling your stuff on Amazon - part 7 - advice for newbies in the first post

teapot2

mishkanorman wrote:

i was the only bidder !!

My lovely oh is off to pick them up tomorrow so i will let you all know what my haul brings me !!!

( i only paid £25 so need a slap for moaning anyway but hey, posting on here got me a sale so the charm is still on the thread : ) )

mishka

Hi Mishka - how were your books when you got them? Were they saleable? Have looked at a few auctions on ebay for books but not had a go yet.
Thanks
Teapot

mishkanorman

HI,

I had over a 1000 in the end with lots and lots of tat ( free with magazines and bible books) , a lot were damaged and most that Ive checked are 1p books. However ive had a couple of gems and with the half that Ive checked if they all sell ( !!) i calculate about £50 profit. I didnt bother listing a lot of them at the moment.

The seller I got them from was advertising £50 postage and if i had paid that I would been gutted !!


I dont regret my buy and would say give it a go !


mishka

teapot2

See what you mean about the postage - unfortunately I don't live anywhere near most of the sellers that advertise on ebay so think it might be a bit of a non-starter for me. By the time courier or postage is added on it wouldn't be worth it. Ta for the info and good luck with selling them

Teapot

apprentice_tycoon

teapot2 wrote:

See what you mean about the postage - unfortunately I don't live anywhere near most of the sellers that advertise on ebay so think it might be a bit of a non-starter for me. By the time courier or postage is added on it wouldn't be worth it. Ta for the info and good luck with selling them

Teapot

Do you have any auction houses near you? you can often get very good mixed lots

Murtle

I got a small selection of books from ebay, I think my OH would move out if I bought 1000 books....but the small lot I got I made a reasonable profit on, most of them were books I wanted to read which was great as I bought them, listed them and read them whilst I waited for them to sell. Which is what I do with all my books now that I don't want to keep, is buy, list then read!

teapot2

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Do you have any auction houses near you? you can often get very good mixed lots

I did look into that a while ago there are ocassional auctions in a nearby town but they didn't sell books. Am in quite a rural area of Scotland so bit sparse on the auction front

funkyfunkymonkey

teapot2 wrote:

I think [but am not certain] that if they are listing at different prices/conditions/deleivery destinations and descriptions etc then that doesn't count for removal. I think its only when the lisitngs are identical in every respect that they will be removed.

Hmm ... I suspect that if someone is reported then their listings are taken down - I don't think Amazon actually check anything out.

The reason I'm guessing this is because the time they took my listing down I only had a single listing.

FFM

blabers

This is just a quick post to moan about how slooooooooooow sales have been. I'm hoping a small moanette will mean I get at least one sale today.

Thanks for your time!

apprentice_tycoon

teapot2 wrote:

I did look into that a while ago there are ocassional auctions in a nearby town but they didn't sell books. Am in quite a rural area of Scotland so bit sparse on the auction front

I see, it might be worth asking the auctioneers to contact you if they ever get books to sell, it would be in their interest to make sure that they have a buyer in the room, if they are general auctioneers (not fine art) they will sell whatever comes their way so in an estate sale the family may want them to take everything away to sell and books maybe on the van.

Failing that it's school and church Christmas fair season soon so you might be able to pick up a few armsfull there

Annie021063

Hi all
Anyone else having good sales at the mo????? Or is it just me sold 8 items yesterday and then another two overnight one for £9.98 and the other for £21.00 - 10 in 24 hours is great going for me
YAY!!!!!:beer: