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

mishkanorman

Ive recently purchased 4 books from ebay all separately and not 1 of them could be described as even a 3/5 transaction !

Amazon sellers do seem to be more careful, but then i also think they tend to be more serious sellers rather than bored housewife chucking on any old tat they can find round the house !!


mishka

apprentice_tycoon

I sell breakables and even though all my feedback mentions the degree of packing and wrapping etc I still get comments from the odd buyer about 'be sure to pack it well' maybe ebay book buyers should ask for the book to be packed well too - it's a shame that you can't *expect* that it's packed well though....

soolin

The comments about packing are quite appropriate actually. My book (the ebay one mentioned above) came in a thin sheet of brown paper sellotaped together. Luckily it arrived in one piece and the packing was not responsible for the damage to the book. I rarely buy books from Ebay and use Amazon instead and rarely get anything other than a brand new jiffy, plus plastic bag inside, or one of the cardboard mailers from the bigger suppliers, this packaging was certainly not up to Amazon standard.

I have emailed the seller and explained that I thought his description as like brand new was completely off the mark, but as I needed this book urgently I will have to accept it, otherwise it would have gone back straight away.

Soo

Sexy_Em

Hi there, just a quickie!!!
How do i tell the edition of a book pls?!

apprentice_tycoon

Hi em - still listing? if you look at the second part of the first post there is a link to a website that describes first editions, they are the only ones that count!

rare_stuff

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Hi em - still listing? if you look at the second part of the first post there is a link to a website that describes first editions, they are the only ones that count!

That may be the case with collectible fiction and similar, but when dealing with non-fiction and academic texts the edition is pretty important, as well as whether it is a revised edition and which revision it is. Luckily most academic texts make this easy by including that info either on the cover or the publishers page.

Sexy_Em

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Hi em - still listing? if you look at the second part of the first post there is a link to a website that describes first editions, they are the only ones that count!

I finished all my listings yesterday but then i realised that this is something i never checked (and some of the books I have are from the 80's)

Cant believe i missed that on the first post I read all of it before i even listed anythin as well.

D'oh! Thanks dude

x

Sexy_Em

oooooh some of my books are first editions!! Should these be listed as collectable?!

apprentice_tycoon

Sexy_Em wrote:

D'oh! Thanks dude

x

Dudette if you please

apprentice_tycoon

Sexy_Em wrote:

oooooh some of my books are first editions!! Should these be listed as collectable?!

Rare_stuff, you still there?.....over to you, we'll all listen carefully....:D