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

mishkanorman

porkev,

To give you an idea, I currently have 835 items listed and have sold 32 since the 1st of January. However, I am the 1p book queen so my turnover money wise is low And my sales are still random with some weeks with no sales, other times I can sell 3 in a day !!

mishka

pinkgem

I have 75 items listed on ebay at the moment (the majority of which were listed yesterday) and its the most i have ever had listed, the 30 days previous to that i had approx 10-15 listings on there at most times

my 24 amazon sales for the last 30 days

today 0
yesterday 4
23rd-28th jan 0
22nd jan 2
20th&21st jan 0
19th jan 1
18th jan 2
10th-17th jan 0
9th jan 1
3rd-8th jan 0
2nd jan 2
1st jan 6
31st dec 6

as you can see my sales are quite random

going a bit further back - in the last 60 days i have sold 45 items, last 90 days 56, last 180 days 63

Hoddie_2

For those who have been selling on Amazon for a while, how often do you get a chargeback or have to issue a refund due to non delivery? 1 in 100? Or worse than that?

apprentice_tycoon

Hoddie wrote:

For those who have been selling on Amazon for a while, how often do you get a chargeback or have to issue a refund due to non delivery? 1 in 100? Or worse than that?

I've been selling on amazon for getting on for 5 years now, I've sold over 1360 items (but less than 400 feedback comments) and only had 2 or 3 that I've had to refund through being lost in the post, I've not had any buyers wanting refunds for other reasons that I can remember.
I mainly sell books and it's assumed that book buyers seem to be the easiest to please

pinkgem

Hoddie wrote:

For those who have been selling on Amazon for a while, how often do you get a chargeback or have to issue a refund due to non delivery? 1 in 100? Or worse than that?

i have been selling on amazon for approx 6 years and i estimate approx 1000 sales in total, i have had 1 attempted chargeback, proof of posting forwarded to amazon stopped that and i can't remember ever having to issue a refund for non delivery

bukup

As some of you will know last week I was fortunate enough to have a great find(box full).
One of these finds was Winnie the Pooh,first edition.....

Well I listed it on Ebay last Thurdsay (10p listing day) along with a couple of other books.

Last night I was offered £65.00 for it (it's for sale at £495.00 or offers).

It is very hard saying 'no' to £65.00,but there are several watchers and 5 days left.

Would you have refused it ? Or would you stick it out to the end and wait and see?

I'd be interested to here your feedback........kind regards Bukup

Hoddie_2

bukup wrote:

Would you have refused it ? Or would you stick it out to the end and wait and see?

Yes and yes. Even if you don't get what you want this time, you can always re-list in a few days.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

well i just want to say that reading this post.....made up my mind to list a few books on amazon.......

since the first week of jan i listed 9 books and one playstation game 9 (still sealed)

so far i have sold the playsation game and 6 books ...3 since friday.....

so guess who's hooked now

so much easier than listing on ebay.......plus its got more of a liad back feel about it.....compared to ebay..... or is that me......lol......

the books that i had put on amazon were factual..... informative books..... on certain subjects.. not story books....as this is the type of book i would sell on ebay....

but do you sell story books thrillers.. mystery....loooooovvvve books etc.....? how well do they sell ?

as normally i only get these types of books if they are in the same bundle as the ones i am buying....

boston_uk

Would you have refused it ? Or would you stick it out to the end and wait and see?

Stick it out bukup!!

bukup

From another publication 1836 natural history book that was in a shocking state,I salvaged the pictures.Although I listed 22 on ebay.com (it worked out at 17p with gallery per listing),I did actually sell 5 at $9.99.....so after fees I made approx £20.00.
Illustrations/prints or plates as they are referred too, can and do generate a good turnover,so remember if you have a book that has great illustrations or interesting/unusual ones in it,it could be worth many times more than you think.
Old illustrated dictionaries are a classic example,the information in the book is usually followed by pictures.As most of these old dictionaries are a dead weight,not many sell.If you were to remove the pictures the possibilities of what you can earn are great....maybe £4.99 per picture or $9.99 on ebay.com-it soon adds up.
I hope this helps someone....kind regards Bukup