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

soolin

Well done reverie, you'll be hooked like the rest of us now.

This is an entire MSE cottage industry , I wonder how many books we have between us all?

Soo

reverie

soolin, are these the type of book mailers that you mean? http://www.packaging2u.co.uk/

Wonder if they are cheaper anywhere else?!


Edited: Then search for "book" - sorry.

mishkanorman

mishkanorman wrote:

yay, who said impulse buying never pays


Just bought a book from charity shop for 10p, looked it up and its a rare uk ist edition gone on at £45 :eek: wont get that much im sure but as its christmas im gonna try my luck


didnt take part in the challange and my sales have all but stopped ever since, so now soo's finished can we declare it over ?? please ??



mishka

wow sold two books just ten mins after my whinge, this thread is amazingly blessed


mishka

soolin

reverie wrote:

soolin, are these the type of book mailers that you mean? http://www.packaging2u.co.uk/

Wonder if they are cheaper anywhere else?!


Edited: Then search for "book" - sorry.

Thank you, yes I did find them on that site here:

http://www.packaging2u.co.uk/Scripts/prodList.asp

A shame as they are a bit expensive, I'll stick with my Viking jiffy lite bags for now.

Thanks for the link though

Soo

hilary1

just sold another game so am feeling very pleased considering I have felt so ill with a snotty cold (and now a coldsore) since last week.

And I've had a payment made into my bank so thats really cheered me up

Thanks everyone
xxx

apprentice_tycoon

There's a lot of happy people here today :T :T it really warms the cockles to hear lots of good stories.


Cardboard book mailers - didn't anyone ever watch Blue Peter???? I'm sure that one could fashion a simlliar thing of a supermarket box if only we had the time...

I'm currently waiting for a pending to go through it's for £20 book so fingers crossed, I hope he sticks with it - the next priced up after mine was £155 so he can't really go to another seller for it..

soolin

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Cardboard book mailers - didn't anyone ever watch Blue Peter???? I'm sure that one could fashion a simlliar thing of a supermarket box if only we had the time...
..

I am so clumsy I couldn't even make a supermarket box out of a supermarket box:eek: Although I do recall that I have some Ikea mailing boxes lurking in a back of a cupboard somewhere, I remember buying them years ago because they had been reduced to 10p a packet or somehting and I never throw anything away...off to search.

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

I'm currently waiting for a pending to go through it's for £20 book so fingers crossed, I hope he sticks with it - the next priced up after mine was £155 so he can't really go to another seller for it..

Good luck with your sale AT, my last few pendings have all converted to sales..so fingers crossed for you.

I've just sold another, I honestly think that someone is winding me up and buying all my books for a bet..I have honestly never sold this many before.

Bella13_2

katchambers wrote:

Personally I would go for the foam, it should protect it just fine, I use that thin foam too and never had a problem. Also I would risk it if it is on the brink because I always do, I do my own online postage and I am very generous with myself and have never had to pay extra postage, and I know my customers would have said something if they had to pay the surcharge, I think they give more leeway then people think.

However, that is just my opinion, I would be of the risky sort.

Kat x

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Hi Bella, I use 2 or 3 layers of foam with plastic mailers or if it's too large I use thick plastic from boutique carrier bags, I haven't heard from buyers that there has been any problems.
Will the book actually go in a post box? my local post box is a silly little one on a pole...
I haven't seen any posts about buyers having problems with underpriced parcels so maybe there is an amnesty?

Thanks very much - I used the foam, think it made it slightly less wide, so felt happier using large letter postage rate. Thought finding a postbox to fit it in would be easy - but I had to try 3... now I know where the "big" postbox is!!

Perhaps I also need to have a big whinge to get my sales going...

Annie021063

Hey guys just had a really good sale
Sold this
Painting As a Pastime (Hardcover)

by Winston, Sir Churchill (Author)
to norway for £32
:j

boston_uk

Even the dogs are hiding! Listed some 30 books on Sunday after reading here for ages - and have sold 4! Moving house soon so going through the boxes of books before taking the no-hopers to the car boot on Sunday - though I will probably come back with a load more to sell.

Many thanks to all here for their stories - and the help posts. :T

Ann

p.s. Can I have a number please? Anything less than 55 would be good - make me feel younger!! :rotfl: