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

soolin

rare_stuff wrote: »

Not a dim question at all, just amazon doing there best to confuse as usual. You're correct in assuming these are just plain old fees, I'm assuming they are for a period you were subscribed to the Pro-Merchant scheme.

Thank you..I needed to make sure!

I am still a pro seller actually as someone (was it you?) a few pages ago explained that even if I didn't sell the full 30 books a month I was still paying very little overall for the convenience of not having to relist every 60 days, and also not paying the 83p per book meant I could price match other pro sellers and sell mor ebooks in the long run.

As it turned out despite having my account on holiday settings for 4 days this month I still sold 33 books, so am well pleased. Actually, I always find I do sell a few as soon as I switch my holiday settings on and off....don't know why.

I have three more to despatch today, all sold last night so am doing quite well at the moment, may it last :j

cat64

Ok this is a bit complicated so please bear with me!

I sold a book the other day, got it ready for dispatch when I noticed it had got some pages stuck together (dunno how that happened). As the book wasn't as described I emailed the buyer and gave them a £2 refund (book was £5.99 and the damage didn't affect the content in any way). Dispatched the book.

Now I have received an email saying I have sent the wrong book - have just checked and I have :wall: (very similar titles). The book I should've sent is fine! Buyer is returning it to me.

So - what do I do. Obviously it's my mistake, so do I just leave the refund to cover the expense to the buyer of returning the book? Or is there anything else I should do?

boston_uk

'Twas me I think ... but well done soolin!!!!

Maybe I need a holiday too - come to think of it I definitely do! Now if we could just sell our house ...

.... here little selling fairy - nice fairy - come to boston ...

funkyfunkymonkey

cat64 wrote: »

So - what do I do. Obviously it's my mistake, so do I just leave the refund to cover the expense to the buyer of returning the book? Or is there anything else I should do?

Hi Cat

I think that is the best thing to do, if I was the buyer I would be happy with the outcome.

FFM

teedy23

My stuff is going veeery slowley this weather, but I did sell a 10p book for £6 last week so not complaining too much, never thought I would be able to retire early on my earnings from this. Looks like I,m right again

boston_uk

yeah - what FFM said. I'd be happy too

Ethos

Hi
Have any of you guys got any information on portable scanners? I've tried bookhero.com with my BlackBerry Pearl and it works well.....but just with the US Amazon site. Is there anything out there that works with the Amazon UK site?
I've read right through this post and have learnt an awful lot.....even though my eyes are now on stalks! One big thank you to you all.
By the way, what is the Amazon Sellers Club?
Billy

wilf55

amazon sellers club is just an excellent brilliant warm friendly beautiful happy helpful fantastic fabulous generous bunch of skys that can usually be found roaming charity shops and elbowing their way to the front of jumble sales sitting at home amongst masses of books with books creating coffee tables chair legs bedside cabinats (mental block) and such ask if you want to join!!! and we will take you through the torturous initiation process

cant help with the first question havent a clue

apprentice_tycoon

hello Billy,

Welcome to MSE and the Amazon thread :hello:

I can't help with the scanner, far too techno for me, I'm more a paper and pencil kinda gal. There are some technobods on the thread so I hope that they'll come and give you the info you need.

The sellers club is our club on the thread (have a look round the whole of MSE and there is a club for just about anything, the No More Pies one stands out in my mind!) it's all about mutual support - aaaaaahhh!:A but it's a club in name only, the whole thread is for mutual support.
If you'd like to join us you'll be number 88 and you must swear that you won't hold any of us responsible for you gettting sucked in and helplessly addicted to selling on Amazon

boston_uk

Hi Billy - welcome!

Not sure many of use a scanner as the cost is a bit high to justify unless you are entering loads and loads at a time. Am sure some do though - and I remember an old discussion on one of the previous threads about them if you want to go back and do a search. The others will have to the info to their fingertips I am sure though and help you out, especially those who have and use one! They do save time entering numbers but you still have to type the description etc etc . I find I can enter numbers very fast now on the keypad anyway.

The sellers club is just an informal group of addicts sellers from here who meet mainly to commiserate on lack of sales but also to celebrate when the SF comes to call !!