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

dreams_R_free

I've been listing all my 'popular' paperbacks on GreenMetropolis for a couple of years and have had a reasonable amount of success. Even after paying the postage I'm more in profit than by carbooting them at 20p/30p a time which is all the cheap-skates round here are prepared to pay! Then, since early February no sales whatsoever:eek:

I was getting quite depressed seeing the vast amount I still had to clear(mainly bought for my own entertainment when I was spending like there was no tomorrow:o, or picked up for pence at bootsales etc) and planned to carboot the lot at the next opportunity. If the weather had been good on Sunday I'd have taken the lot off GM and tried to sell them at a bootsale for a ridiculously low price just to see the back of them. Torrential rain put paid to that, thank goodness:j .

I had 5 sales on GM yesterday and have just come back from posting them to find 3 more sales notifications on my computer:T. I just don't believe it, that's 8 sold in 24 hours for much more(even after postage) than I'd have sold the whole bookcase-full for at a carboot. These are just your common run-of-the-mill paperbacks that go for 1p (if they sell at all!)on Amazon!

There'll probably be a lull now for months but It's given me enough faith to keep them on GM for a while longer!

funkyfunkymonkey

rare_stuff wrote: »

:rolleyes: No! I have been busyy doing other stuff, though am selling quite a few copies of a video game I have in stock on play for double the amount it currently is priced at on amazon. But still feel a complete newb as I have yet to receive any feedback!

Will have to get around to working on the bulk upload thing again, but I need another 3hours in the day at the moment!

Also, yesterday was a great day here! I sold a £50 book I'd bought for a fiver a couple of weeks ago. And my aStore had it's highest ever click-thru/conversion rate from someone ordering a dozen CD's, so am now earning 5.5% commission and only need a few more orders to get to the 6% level!

I've still only got 3 feedbacks, it's really easy to leave fb on Play, when you go back into your order history there's a big green button that says feedback - so I don't know why buyers aren't leaving any.

Congrats on your £50 sale and your commission rate - sounds like you're doing well :T

FFM

funkyfunkymonkey

Look what I just sold - no need to stick to books, games or puzzles.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000HPRYCA/203-2824282-7539960

FFM

apprentice_tycoon

Impomdasp wrote: »

I've been listing all my 'popular' paperbacks on GreenMetropolis for a couple of years and have had a reasonable amount of success. Even after paying the postage I'm more in profit than by carbooting them at 20p/30p a time which is all the cheap-skates round here are prepared to pay! Then, since early February no sales whatsoever:eek:

I was getting quite depressed seeing the vast amount I still had to clear(mainly bought for my own entertainment when I was spending like there was no tomorrow:o, or picked up for pence at bootsales etc) and planned to carboot the lot at the next opportunity. If the weather had been good on Sunday I'd have taken the lot off GM and tried to sell them at a bootsale for a ridiculously low price just to see the back of them. Torrential rain put paid to that, thank goodness:j .

I had 5 sales on GM yesterday and have just come back from posting them to find 3 more sales notifications on my computer:T. I just don't believe it, that's 8 sold in 24 hours for much more(even after postage) than I'd have sold the whole bookcase-full for at a carboot. These are just your common run-of-the-mill paperbacks that go for 1p (if they sell at all!)on Amazon!

There'll probably be a lull now for months but It's given me enough faith to keep them on GM for a while longer!

This is remarkable, it's almost like your books were behind a dam that burst, well done :j I think that inspiration to carry on selling comes from posts like this - have you stopped wagging your tail yet?

wilf55

well done ffm will look what else i can sell booksales are DISMAL!!

funkyfunkymonkey

wilf55 wrote: »

well done ffm will look what else i can sell booksales are DISMAL!!

Well if you are a Pro Seller you can make up your own pages, and looking at this selection you can list just about anything:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MEERKAT-FAMILY-STAKES-4-PACK/dp/B000OVQOWI/ref=pd_ts_hg_41/203-2824282-7539960?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden#moreAboutThisProduct

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Floating-Fish-Food-Goldfish-25Kg/dp/B000N3ZRG6/ref=sr_1_52/203-2824282-7539960?ie=UTF8&s=outdoors&qid=1179257166&sr=1-52

http://www.amazon.co.uk/90-Litre-Galvanized-Dustbin-Lid/dp/B000NE8CLW/ref=sr_1_2/203-2824282-7539960?ie=UTF8&s=outdoors&qid=1179257814&sr=1-2


Sort of like BIN on Ebay but without the up front fees.

FFM

mishkanorman

does anyone else feel like a bit of a del boy when they start buying 'odds' to sell ??


If only i could have the cool van :rotfl:


mishka

foxybabe

Hi, when you guys post to europe do you use air mail? I am considering changing my listings as sales are very poor and you all seem to be ahving better sales in europe.

Thanks in advance

rare_stuff

foxybabe wrote: »

Hi, when you guys post to europe do you use air mail? I am considering changing my listings as sales are very poor and you all seem to be ahving better sales in europe.

Thanks in advance

As stated in the Participation agreement, all international orders MUST be sent Airmail.

A couple of things to note though -

If you are sending items that weigh more than 500gm abroad you will use almost all of the shipping fee that amazon provide, and if you aren't a PM seller the 88p pre item fee will make this less too. I make my cut off at about 400gm to allow myself to make money sending penny items abroad

Sending by Printed Papers rate Airmail is slightly cheaper than using Small Packet rate. Make sure you write "Printed Papers" in the topleft of the envelope, and ask clearly at the PO for Printed Paper Airmail. If using Printed Paper rate, you do not have to do customs forms for Books for the vast majority of destinations, only a couple of bizarre ones like Venuzeula, Cuba, Vietnam I think are a coupleof them.

wilf55

in my experience when i have sent something like a light book there is hardly any difference between postage to the uk and air mail

royal mail website might help you decide