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Selling your Stuff on Amazon Part 10 - Discussion Thread

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  • frivolous_fay
    frivolous_fay Posts: 13,302 Forumite
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    In my experience, textbooks, self-help and up-to-the-minute novels sell best.

    I put a few videos on Amazon but none have sold yet - and I didn't bother listing the 1p ones.
    My TV is broken! :cry:
    Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j
  • dreams_R_free
    dreams_R_free Posts: 536 Forumite
    I've a huge washing-machine box full of great videos which people have given me recently after upgrading to DVDs. I'm not sure where to try selling them and for what price. Do many people still buy videos these days? I see them at carboot sales all the time at about 25p each, and really good ones at that:eek:. I never know whether to buy them all up to sell on or leave well alone:confused:
  • jo_b_2
    jo_b_2 Posts: 7,122 Forumite
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    Impomdasp wrote: »
    I've a huge washing-machine box full of great videos which people have given me recently after upgrading to DVDs. I'm not sure where to try selling them and for what price. Do many people still buy videos these days? I see them at carboot sales all the time at about 25p each, and really good ones at that:eek:. I never know whether to buy them all up to sell on or leave well alone:confused:

    Leave well alone. Videos are selling at 25p because that it is the market value nowadays. Most people are transferring to DVDs and the size and cost of posting videos makes them a pretty poor investment.
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,151 Ambassador
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    Leave videos well alone unless you have knowledge to pick out those few that sell very well due to never being released on DVD.

    I've just got back from my local auction house, they used to churn out huge boxes..maybe 60+ videos at a time for £3, but now even they refuse to sell them.

    Also the posting allowance on videos is poor as it does not cover the £1.52 you need to send them 2nd class as a packet, so I think (and someone please correct me) that you only make a profit if you sell at over £1 a go minimum.
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  • 4maxine
    4maxine Posts: 440 Forumite
    I have a quite a few classic videos that I put on Amazon. I have sold 2 in the last couple of weeks for £9 and £5. I don't bother with the cheaper ones. I use them to replace the cases of the good ones if needed.
    2009: Headphones, Nintendo DSi , Baking Kit
    2010: Jan:T-shirt, 2xBooks, Headphones, Elvis CD, Buffera, Scarf Feb:CD, 2xBooks, Mascara, 3xT-shirts Mar: Lip balm, 2xBooks, 2xCD, mask, Koala, 6xCinema tickets, Chocolate box, Drive Backup Pro Apr: Elemis cream, Elemis Skin Buff
  • mishkanorman
    mishkanorman Posts: 4,155 Forumite
    I have just got my oddest feedback to date

    "FanDab"

    eh ??

    not complaining as its 5/5 but WTH does that mean ?? all me and OH can presume is fan-dabby-dozy from the crankies and they didnt know how to spell the last bit !

    any suggestions ?

    mishka
    Bow Ties ARE cool :cool:

    "Just because you are offended, doesnt mean you are right" Ricky Gervais :D
  • DonnaP
    DonnaP Posts: 458 Forumite
    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Must be fandabbydozy. OMG. Didn't realise anyone said that anymore (not that anyone ever did!)

    That has really made me laugh!

    Donna

    P.S. Fandabbydozy!!!
  • Quackers
    Quackers Posts: 10,157 Forumite
    :j :j :j

    Woooooo Hooooooooo :)

    I'm all impressed with myself.

    I started on Amazon selling my own collection of fiction books. Highest price about £5.

    When I have had time I have been looking at books in charity shops, getting isbn numbers & checking how much they are selling for on Amazon. (great tip from here)

    Today I sold a book for £25. I paid £1.99 for it about 8-10 weeks ago :)
    Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold...But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow...
  • tsharp
    tsharp Posts: 1,532 Forumite
    what was the book?
    "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."
  • Quackers
    Quackers Posts: 10,157 Forumite
    tsharp wrote: »
    what was the book?

    Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics. Henry Lindlahr M.D.

    ISBN : 0852071590

    :)
    Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold...But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow...
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