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

Amazombie

numberthree wrote:

I think I'd go for £100 as a start pooint for the book and be prepared to drop £5 or so a week until I got near the lowest priceed one of £55.

Could I just say that Im not convinced by this argument of dropping the price of a scarce book weekly because its quite likely that for most such books a potential buyer only comes along maybe once a year and its very unlikely that anyone is looking at the Amazon listing for that book on a weekly or even monthly basis. Just a thought.....;)

See my original comments here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=4119661#post4119661

funkyfunkymonkey

bukup wrote:

my lucky box that contained some goodies is yeilding some promising results..... at £447.00 with an hour and a half left.
I do not believe it will go any higher,I'll just have to wait 'n' see....
item number 300078062401 (ebay)
its a booke' of common prayer 1596

kind regards Bukup

Wow Debbie!

That's so exciting :j :j :j , I've added it to my watch list and will be 'willing' the bids to increase.

Fingers crossed, FFM

teapot2

YvonneCrossland wrote:

Yesterday I've started listing items on Amazon again, my baby is now almost 6 months old & has taken up most of my time but I really need to shift the rest of these books/cds etc to get some money. It seems ages since I listed & sold anything so I'm hoping for some "Sold, dispatch now" emails to come through pretty quick!

Hi Yvonne - welcome back glad to hear all is well with the family, doesn't seem like 6+ months since you 'disappeared'! Hope you get lots of SDNs - bet you've missed them tho' occupied with other things.....

Happy selling
Teapot

funkyfunkymonkey

Amazombie wrote:

Could I just say that Im not convinced by this argument of dropping the price of a scarce book weekly because its quite likely that for most such books a potential buyer only comes along maybe once a year and its very unlikely that anyone is looking at the Amazon listing for that book on a weekly or even monthly basis. Just a thought.....;)

See my original comments here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=4119661#post4119661

I must admit that I am with Amazombie on this one. If it is genuinely rare and reasonably sought after then it could take a while for a buyer to come along anyway.

One of my regular money spinners sells at about £80-£100, but the last one took about 4-6 months to sell, I held tight and it sold at my original asking price.

I have to thank Yvonne for sending me off looking for names of American listers, 'cos I just found another copy of this book listed at £9 - often new sellers don't realise that what looks like a common paperback can be quite 'rare' and can fetch a nice sum.

FFM

teapot2

hazzer wrote:

Hi relatively new to Amazon but am honest with descriptions and always put a polite note in saying if unhappy with purchase etc contact me. I had over 300 feedbacks all positive.

i sold book and description was 'as acceptable - tatty copy but may of use to some one - second imp 1959 - uk seller '

just got my first neg feedback - with comments book was tatty

My blood is boiling - i have emailed customer politely.

It is so unfair because the feedback system is one sided people can leave any comment at all. At least with ebay if customer neg you neg them.

I realized amazon was only a statisic of waiting for the mad customer to buy from you but is there anything you can do to get feedback removed if it is genuinely and grossly unfair? :mad:

Hi Hazzer - not sure from your posting if you know that you CAN respond to feedback left? If you are in your seller account and signed in, go to feedback and click to see it all and there is an option to leave a response. I know its annoying and unfair but I think that with 300 positive feedbacks, buyers will not be swayed by one neg especially if you respond.

I think we should write an Amazon sellers lament - 'why don't buyers read the listing....' Now what rhymes with listing? - insisting, twisting, misting,....... [no rude ones please one just came came to mind] :eek:

Hope you get it sorted
Teapot

teapot2

bukup wrote:

my lucky box that contained some goodies is yeilding some promising results..... at £447.00 with an hour and a half left.
I do not believe it will go any higher,I'll just have to wait 'n' see....
item number 300078062401 (ebay)
its a booke' of common prayer 1596

kind regards Bukup

Wow - good for you what a find, well done, drinks on you then later :beer:
let us know how it goes

hazzer_2

hazzer wrote:

Hi relatively new to Amazon but am honest with descriptions and always put a polite note in saying if unhappy with purchase etc contact me. I had over 300 feedbacks all positive.

i sold book and description was 'as acceptable - tatty copy but may of use to some one - second imp 1959 - uk seller '

just got my first neg feedback - with comments book was tatty

My blood is boiling - i have emailed customer politely.

It is so unfair because the feedback system is one sided people can leave any comment at all. At least with ebay if customer neg you neg them.

I realized amazon was only a statisic of waiting for the mad customer to buy from you but is there anything you can do to get feedback removed if it is genuinely and grossly unfair? :mad:

hi thanks for everyones help -- i have now left a response and if no communication from seller will contact amazon.

Amazons feedback system seems far from perfect !!!

The door appears to be left wide open for any sort of feedback and cristism.

I have looked at other sellers negatives since mine was left and some are so unjustified - one poor seller had negative because the buyer had not collected from the royal mail sorting office. Amazon ought to sort this out - it is very unfair.

Final question - if i get enough 5/5 can my be feedback go back to 100 %

foxybabe

woo hoo, my first feedback. 5/5 and a vey nice comment. Lets hope that it will help sales.

thanks for all your help and advice

chrisg

I had an item listing. when i went to check my open listing about 30mins ago, the quantity had changed to 0?

Does this mean it has been sold?

jo_b_2

chrisg wrote:

I had an item listing. when i went to check my open listing about 30mins ago, the quantity had changed to 0?

Does this mean it has been sold?

If the item has sold it should be listed under your 'closed listings' and the quantity would be marked as 0.

Check through your 'recent transactions' section just to make certain and make sure Amazon emails aren't being sent to your spam box by an over-zealous spam filter!