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

Dormouse

Amazombie wrote:

See my other reply. The buyer paid £ 2.75 but you ony received £ 1.43 of it. Not much profit on the postage element which makes 1p videos a bit of a loss.

Thanks for that. Do you remember how much it cost for you to post it?

rare_stuff

Dormouse wrote:

Thanks for that. Do you remember how much it cost for you to post it?

The cheapest you can post a VHS tape for is £1.39 2nd class, or £1.70 first class. That's to UK only, not sure of the international rates. I also believe that the figure quoted by Amazombie is that which would be received by a Pro-Merchant seller, non pro would be hit with an 88p closing fee!

You could send cheaper if you removed the tape from the cassette, folded it neatly and mail it as a large letter!!

wilf55

what is a SDN email trying to figure it our for 4 days now????

princessmoneysaver

Sold dispatch now.

P.S My wonderful Dad as bought me a Wii from Amazon for my birthday so now I need to sell some items to buy more games.

funkyfunkymonkey

wilf55 wrote:

what is a SDN email trying to figure it our for 4 days now????

Sold Despatch Now

FFM

funkyfunkymonkey

YvonneCrossland wrote:

Sold dispatch now.

P.S My wonderful Dad as bought me a Wii from Amazon for my birthday so now I need to sell some items to buy more games.

Snap - except you've spelt it correctly :rotfl:

FFM

wilf55

its soooo obvious when its spelt out to you ( whether correctly or not)

thanks

twobfair

A general question...

What book to sale ratio do people tend to have? (ie how many books listed to number of average sales)?

And with this ratio what type of books make up the majority of the listings (ie 1p books etc)?

I have listed about 250 books and have sold 150 or so of these ....most of my books listed are non-fiction and are worth between £2 - £20 I guess. Just wondering what works for others as Im thinking about bulk buying lots of books and not being as selective as I am at the mo when buying...

Cheers guys

funkyfunkymonkey

twobfair wrote:

A general question...

What book to sale ratio do people tend to have? (ie how many books listed to number of average sales)?

And with this ratio what type of books make up the majority of the listings (ie 1p books etc)?

I have listed about 250 books and have sold 150 or so of these ....most of my books listed are non-fiction and are worth between £2 - £20 I guess. Just wondering what works for others as Im thinking about bulk buying lots of books and not being as selective as I am at the mo when buying...

Cheers guys

Hi

I've got over 4000 listed, but have been really lazy recently (apart from working full time and having a family life) and have not been buying or listing new stuff. Consequently my sales are currently appalling!!!

Last 7 days sales showing up as 21.

I've always found that proportionally newer listed stuff goes faster, old stuff just trickles out. Also, with so many books I never check prices so have probably dropped off the front page of items for sale.

FFM

Tweek_1984

My sales have completely died over the last week. I have over 900 listed and sold about 3 over the last 7 days.