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

mishkanorman

wendy_ann1983 wrote:

Yesterday I saw the pro-merchant offer on amazon, realised yesterday ws the last day to take it up so signed up quick, then i got an email that said i would be paying £25, i emailed the help dept an got an email back that said as the offer only ran 8th Jan to 5th JAN (hhm, I hope that was an oversight of the person who sent it) i wasnt eligable, which really confused me as i thought the offer said sign up from ..??.. till 5th Feb and get 3 months half price, could somebody just clarify what the offer was and if i should be miffed at them or if i misread it? thanks

How can it run from the 8th JAN to the 5TH JAN ?? surely that would be over a year ???

I know the info i read said 5th Feb but dont have written copy of that, have you checked the sellers board on Amazon ?


mishka

EDIT heres a link for the advert says before the 5th not up to and including, perhaps this is what they meant.

http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-uksellannoun&msg=227.1&ctx=0

wendy_ann1983

the email i was sent says 5th jan, so hope the bloke who wrote it was just stupid. Maybe im just thick, but the way i read it, it included the 5th, oh well, still gonna save a bit on fees even at the proper price.

apprentice_tycoon

foxybabe wrote:

Does anyone bother with the penny books? Alot of my paperbacks are just selling at a penny and there are loads on. In you opinion is it worth the bother? I know you can still make a bit on postage but you could be waiting ages.

cheers everyone any advice is appreciated.

Each book will have it's day on the first page as Amazon rotate them so it will get seen and if it looks better than the other 1p books it will sell, but it depends on your storage circumstances as to whether it's a good idea to keep them or not - the alternatives are -

take them to a charity shop - swap with a friend - swap them on www.readitswapit.co.uk and maybe you'll end up with a more saleable book - sell them at a car boot sale - bundle them and put them on ebay - list them on green met.

soolin

Re 1p books, I don't bother listing them unless there are no more than say 6 already listed and my condition is as good as, or better than the others. If you are not a pro seller then you'll only get £1.41 for a 1p book and as a standard novel costs £1.39 just for postage it doesn't make any sense to list. However, smaller books that can sneak in as a large letter may be good even for someone who is not a pro seller.

In total I probably have less than 20 1p books listed.

froggy27_2

I am quite happy today as i've only started listed some books/cds/videos/dvds yesterday after a mad run around the house to find all those items i don't really want but didn't want to give away!! and I have my first sell today!! A small price but still... all helps..so thanks for giving me the push to list everything...
Soolin you mentioned a thread with books which sells.. if you find it can you let me know as I can't...

soolin

froggy, I've bumped it for you.

Good luck!

Annie021063

Hi Guys
Hope everyone is doing well
Is there anything wrong with amazon?
My sales have totally slumped over last few days - I was wondering if they are having problems?
BFN

Sammz

I hadn't sold anything for over a week but got a sale today.

Angela

http://www.amazon.co.uk/RYA-Book-EuroRegs-Inland-Waterways/dp/0713650087/sr=8-1/qid=1170781753/ref=sr_1_1/026-2542321-0766025?ie=UTF8&s=books

Sold one of these for nigh on twenty pounds yesterday nice little earner as only a 24 page booklet,cant remember how much it cost me but I dont usually spend more than 79p per book usually only 50p.

soolin

Annie021063 wrote:

Hi Guys
Hope everyone is doing well
Is there anything wrong with amazon?
My sales have totally slumped over last few days - I was wondering if they are having problems?
BFN

I sold 48 books in about 22 days, now nothing since Friday. Lots of moans on the seller boards about Amazon being 'switched off' again at the moment.

Soo