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

funkyfunkymonkey

wombat678 wrote:

heya guys, my little brother wants to sell some of his dvds and books,is there anywhere that says an under 18 cant sell? someone help PLEASE cos he wont stop nagging

Sadly, under 18's are not allowed to sell on Amazon.

The link is http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3149131

And it says:

Community Rules

Like any community, our third-party selling community has rules to help ensure a safe and enjoyable buying and selling experience. Please take a moment to read through our Community Rules.

General guidelines:

• honour your commitment to buy or sell
• maintain current account information
• limit your selling and auctions bidding activity to a single account. If you ever find you can't log in, seek password assistance. Suspended customers will not be allowed to establish new accounts
• leave thoughtful feedback about your transaction partners
• do not misrepresent yourself
• participants must be at least 18 years old.

FFM

numberthree

Hi folks,

Just wondered if anyone else was having trouble logging onto Read It Swap it this afternoon - all I get is 'Page not found' at the moment?

wombat678

Thanks funkyfunkymunkey- my brother will have to deal with it although knowing him,he`ll probably sell anyway.

apprentice_tycoon

numberthree wrote:

Hi folks,

Just wondered if anyone else was having trouble logging onto Read It Swap it this afternoon - all I get is 'Page not found' at the moment?

I tried it a few minutes ago and it wasn't working
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still not working now - who broke it?

apprentice_tycoon

foxybabe wrote:

How much stuff do you guys have on amazon, and do you get regular sales or can you go for a long time without selling anything? Nothing for me yet but I only have a few books on and they have only been on for a few days. My account shows "just launched" will this make much difference to my sales do you think?

Thans everyone.

hi foxybabe, all the sellers with lots of books (several hundred) will expect sales everyday, everyone else can go days and days without sales, you have to just hold your nerve and wait. Don't worry about the just launched thing, this will stay till you get your first feedback and this might take ages too as not many buyers go back to submit feedback, it just isn't as important as it is on ebay.
So long as your description is good and gives the impression that you know what you're doing then you'll get a sale soon

soolin

For some odd reason I got it in my head that I needed to have 800 books listed to sell enough to cover the pro merchant fee every month when it goe to full price. I have no scientific basis for my figures, it just stuck in my mind. I am currently hovering at around the 790 mark and have sold 37 books since 9th january, which has really surprised me...I really cannot account for my sales suddenly having taken off like this.

Previously I had about 500 books listed and seemed to be in a pattern of two or three sales, then nothing for 7-10 days, then another 2-3 sales and so forth.

I have virtually no 1p books except a few Mills and boon that go occasionally, I do have other books at 25p-99p and get quite a few sales from them, then I have mid range books at about the £10-£30 from which I get very ocassional sales (I today!) and a few books over £50 that I'm prepared to sit on for a while till they sell.

Soo

pink_fairy_7

Happy birthday soolin:bdaycake:

foxybabe

woo hoo, I have just had my first sale. I am soooo chuffed, I only put stuff on a couple of days ago. Can I just check with you what I need to do now? i have printed of the e-mail, so am i right in thinking I cut out the dispatch label for the package. Put the packing slip inside and pu my address as the return address on the back of the package?

cheers everyone and hopefully another sale soon.

ruthiejane

That sounds right Foxybabe. It's also good practise to send an email to the buyer to let them know the book is on its way.

tourette_t-shirts

Right,i joined amazon this morning and have ad my first sale (32p) but its a paperback so i should makesomething on the postage :)

Tommorow im going to cruise my local charity shops for books after taking advice off here.

Thanks to those who have imputed info on this thread