selling your stuff on Amazon - part 8 - advice for newbies in the first 2 posts

mishkanorman

boston_uk wrote:

Sending hugs and kisses to selling fairy, thanking her for staying a while with me and hoping she pops round for tea and a fairy cake every day!

:eek: :eek: dont put his friends in a cake , that wont get us any sales :rotfl:


mishka

twobfair

I almost forgot...

Check this feedback

"The book is in very good condition and is being protected very well. Nice postal skill ."

Postal Skill...brill!

soolin

mishkanorman wrote:

soolin, as my sales are soooo poor im contemplating greenmet, can you give us some pointers (or if there was a thread on it?)

TIA

i wont be around tonight as im off for a romantic meal ! (well to a pub anyway ) but will check back asap


mishka

Hope you enjoy your meal.

There is a thread somewhere re greenmetropolis but I can't get it on a general search. However, I often risk my books on both greenmet and Amazon and I have on occasions made more on greenmet than I would have done on Amazon.

However, I've actually sold very few overall on greenmet, maybe just over 14- 16 now in 20 months and when I do sell I seem to sell two at a time to different people. I don't really sell novels as I don't have the storage for masses and masses of books where there are dozens already listed, so I tend to make sure both on Amazon and greenmmet that I list slightly rarer boooks. In fact the vast majority of my 850 books re non fiction. In total I suppose I have less than 20 1p books on Amazon, and only 2 or 3 books on greenmet where they show more than 5 copies. On greenmet nearly half my 150 books listed are the only copy.

I also sell on ebay and seem to have a good turnover on there, selling a few every week. However I tend to be very careful to choose books I know will sell on ebay.

spiddy100

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Hi spiddy - you're number 79, you did well to get 5 boxes given to you , the Amazon fairy works in mysterious ways......

Thanks AT, I am working my way through - there seems to be some good stuff in there. I'm kind of hoping it's not *too* good or I will feel guilty keeping my spoils!

tsharp

twobfair wrote:

If you type the ISBN's into Amazon via any bog standard phone of the last year or so you dont get the problem of someone picking off the books while you go home to check!

You'd still have to go home and check them, unless of course you were talking about a PDA style phone with wifi of course.

funkyfunkymonkey

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=171980

FFM

darrenhoughton

Hi Everyone,

I have been lurking on this forum for awhile now without posting, as a total newbie on Amazon, I didn't feel I had anything to say that was worth reading.

But today I received my first negative feedback and desperately feel the need to vent my anger a little!

Basically here what someone wrote as feedback :
"Delivery etc was very good, but thought the p&p was totally OTT, as the item only cost 65p & I was charged £2:95!" 3/5

I emailed the woman who left this comment but she has neither wrote back nor removed her feedback.

I have sold on eBay for years without a single negative yet within two weeks of selling on Amazon I've recieved a complaint for something that is beyond my control. :mad:

Anyway, thanks for reading. I feel better now I've had a little moan.

All the best Darren

Amazombie

darrenhoughton wrote:

Basically here what someone wrote as feedback :
"Delivery etc was very good, but thought the p&p was totally OTT, as the item only cost 65p & I was charged £2:95!"

Hello Darren

If you phone Amazon customer services tomorrow on 0800 279 6620 (button 2) they'll remove the feedback because they set the postage charge not you.

Regards

funkyfunkymonkey

soolin wrote:

I'm just sitting here smiling as I think I just bumped into another Amazon seller. If you are male, late middle aged and were wearing a knitted hat and duffle coat and writing down ISBN numbers (in the neatest handwriting ever) then I was the mad blonde woman who was watching you!

Soo

My guess is that it was Amazombie :rotfl:

FFM

funkyfunkymonkey

Hi Wendy

Once left on Amazon, feedback can only be removed, it can't be changed.

Like Hintza says, give it a day or so, it can take a while to adjust.

FFM