selling your stuff on Amazon - part 9 - advice for newbies in the first 2 posts

hornetgirl

Glad it's not just me FFM. I haven't sold a thing for 6 days now. When I first started, I used to get at least 2-3 sales per week with less than 50 items listed. Now I have a couple of hundred listed, and nothing

Never thought I'd say it, but thank goodness for the day job!

soulcadet1

I had a really good Easter weekend but in the last week or so sales have been less than inspiring, the odd sale here or there. Yet today when I got home from work, bingo! 4 books sold. This won't be my worst week but it's pretty damn close. I suppose that the hot weather is to blame. Well, you've got to blame something haven't you?

My sales on Play are now greater than on Amazon, I did my bulk upload of about 1500 listings on Play on Sunday and sold 2 books Monday (1 pending cancelled out), 3 books Tuesday and 1 books so far today.

I assume that this refers to Play.Com? I wasn't aware that any other site apart from e-Bay and Greenmet had this sort of facility. Sounds like a good way of expanding one's market. Are there any drawbacks with Play?

funkyfunkymonkey

soulcadet1 wrote: »

I had a really good Easter weekend but in the last week or so sales have been less than inspiring, the odd sale here or there. Yet today when I got home from work, bingo! 4 books sold. This won't be my worst week but it's pretty damn close. I suppose that the hot weather is to blame. Well, you've got to blame something haven't you?



I assume that this refers to Play.Com? I wasn't aware that any other site apart from e-Bay and Greenmet had this sort of facility. Sounds like a good way of expanding one's market. Are there any drawbacks with Play?

Hi Soulcadet

Here's the link to the Play thread, started by Rupert http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=413654

I think most of the drawbacks are mentioned in the thread, at the moment it's very positive for me, bad feedback for 2nd hand books hasn't happened yet.

The fees on Play are lower than Amazon, Play = 50p per sale, 10% fees + 5% to cash your money in - where as Amazon = 86p per sale + 17.25% fees (if non pro). Amazon costs £28.75 per month to be pro, Play costs £19.99.

FFM

mishkanorman

my sales have yet to pick up either, but i did sell some high value ones so my cash was the same !!

cooltrikerchick,

i would have assumed as you posted to the address provided, that was your bit done ?? if they gave the wrong address how can they think you should be out of pocket for it ???

rare-stuff, can you show us how this is the not the case ? you make it appear as if you think CTC is going to have a problem .. . .


mishka

rare_stuff

mishkanorman wrote: »

i would have assumed as you posted to the address provided, that was your bit done ?? if they gave the wrong address how can they think you should be out of pocket for it ???

rare-stuff, can you show us how this is the not the case ? you make it appear as if you think CTC is going to have a problem .. . .


mishka

Don't really want to be the doom & gloom merchant, but have had this happen myself on a number of occassions, some sorted ok, where the customer had access to the previous address and was ok about it being sent there and either arranged direct for it to be delivered/collected and the other occassion when they had no access to the old address.

In the case that they cannot intercept the delivery and had no redirect facility set up, items will usually be returned to sender, this can take at least 3 weeks if the item isn't collected or if you're lucky the wrong recipient will RTS it and you'll receive it back. When you do receive it back you will then be expected by the buyer to resend to the correct address, though it's possible they won't accept that they have to pay more for this privilege and may even mark you down on feedback due to delivery. Also, they maybe quite impatient to have there order arrive and pester constantly until it does, even though the delay in it being returned to you isn't your fault.

Hopefully the <s>muppet</s> Buyer in question will be the nice sort and accept the delay, but very few will be tempted to pay more for it being delivered to the correct address after being returned to yourself.

I don't like being the doom & gloom merchant, but I was asked!

mishkanorman

Its not doom and gloom unfortunately, these days its a sad fact that consumer power has gone to some peoples head and 'they know their rights' (like pinkgems buyer who threatened court action over less than £5 postage)

i just thought there might be some daft amazon rule that stated you must be psychic to sell on their site !!!


thanks


mishka

rare_stuff

mishkanorman wrote: »

i just thought there might be some daft amazon rule that stated you must be psychic to sell on their site !!!

:rotfl:

There Is! There Is! But if you aren't psychic, you won't know where to find this rule!!! :rotfl:

wilf55

he he he

pinkgem

mishkanorman wrote: »

Its not doom and gloom unfortunately, these days its a sad fact that consumer power has gone to some peoples head and 'they know their rights' (like pinkgems buyer who threatened court action over less than £5 postage)

i just thought there might be some daft amazon rule that stated you must be psychic to sell on their site !!!


thanks


mishka

re: the above, did you see the update on my thread the other day?

mishkanorman

Cor, didnt have to be psychic to see that joke coming :rolleyes: make me chuckle though :beer:


pinkgem, i think i missed it so will go hunt it down, thanks


mishka

EDIT, found it , well done on the feedback, accurate response which he probably doesnt even know is there !!
i left a similar one for my nutbar buyer so i now check feedback for all my new buyers, just in case !!