Selling your Stuff on Amazon Part 10 - Discussion Thread

teapot2

DonnaP wrote: »

Hi

I have today received an email from a satisfied buyer asking me for a receipt (she wants to claim the cost back through her work expenses).

As I am not a business, I am not sure what I can do! Surely this is something that would come from Amazon? Or am I missing something?

Thanks for any help

Donna

Ooh a satisfied customer, I like those . I know as Market Place sellers the Participation Agreement doesn't let us produce invoices so don't know about receipts. Its been ages since I bought anything from The Marketplace so i can't remember what the paperwork is that you get via Amazon? I would have thought there might be something there she could use even if its just printing off an email. Alternatively could you email her via Amazon and just say thanks for buying blah blah costing blah and she can print that off???

Eager_Elephant

Hi everyone,

I am an avid reader of this thread but never get to post as I'm too busy.

Anyway my question is regarding Priority Books and the service they offer. I have access to approx 700 books a week and can't list them all in the time I have available so was wondering whether I should sell them by the box instead.

I did have pro-seller but because I didn't have time and wasn't selling enough I cancelled. I did have approx. 500 books listed but they have all ended and I don't have time to relist at the moment.

All the books I have collected so far are all stored in my shed but I am fast running out of room.

I am located in East Anglia and I know Priority Books are miles away so no being on each other's territory.

The other alternative would be for my husband to give up work - he earns £1000 after tax and concentrate on selling books full time but not sure if we can make that money from Amazon.

Does anyone here sell books full time? I think Soolin does as well as selling antiques.

Alternatively shall I just forget it??

Comments welcome

EE

foxybabe

Hi everyone. I am absolutely gutted today, I have just logged into my amazon account and someone has left me 3/5 feedback . Up until then I had 100% and really good comments. I know that the book he bought was in 'as new' condition, and i always post straight away so he should have received it really quickly. This has made my f/b 96%!! Has anyone else had this and has it made much difference to sales? My sales are poo at the mo anyway.
Also does anyone post to the states and international? and is it worth while?
I need to boost sales so wondered whether it might be worth changing to posting international.

Thanks in advance.

soolin

Hi Eager_Elephant..it isn't me that is a full time Amazon seller (oh I wish :money: ) possibly one of the other regulars? I am a pro seller and have about 1200 listed but actually only sell between 30-50 books a month as my stock is um, unusual..not best sellers really.

Foxybabe..I got a 3/5 a few weeks back, I was horribly upset but I contacted the buyer and asked what I had done wrong. It took some time as she was a newbie but she said the rating method suggested to her that 3/5 was the correct rating for a good transaction, and once i explained that it killed my feedback she removed it. So maybe you could try emailing the buyer and seeing if this could be resolved somehow?

mishkanorman

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I am an avid reader of this thread but never get to post as I'm too busy.

Anyway my question is regarding Priority Books and the service they offer. I have access to approx 700 books a week and can't list them all in the time I have available so was wondering whether I should sell them by the box instead.

I did have pro-seller but because I didn't have time and wasn't selling enough I cancelled. I did have approx. 500 books listed but they have all ended and I don't have time to relist at the moment.

All the books I have collected so far are all stored in my shed but I am fast running out of room.

I am located in East Anglia and I know Priority Books are miles away so no being on each other's territory.

The other alternative would be for my husband to give up work - he earns £1000 after tax and concentrate on selling books full time but not sure if we can make that money from Amazon.

Does anyone here sell books full time? I think Soolin does as well as selling antiques.

Alternatively shall I just forget it??

Comments welcome

EE

Hi,

Did you post on the amazon board aswell ??

Im in east anglia and would love a new source but depends on what we are talking, I know 2 or 3 other sellers in the region who would be interested aswell.

Where abouts are you >??


Oh, and welcome to the thread !!


mishka

Eager_Elephant

Hi mishka,

I do not post on the Amazon board, thought it was only really for pro-sellers.

I am actually in Suffolk.

EE

wendym

soolin wrote: »

Foxybabe..I got a 3/5 a few weeks back, I was horribly upset but I contacted the buyer and asked what I had done wrong. It took some time as she was a newbie but she said the rating method suggested to her that 3/5 was the correct rating for a good transaction, and once i explained that it killed my feedback she removed it. So maybe you could try emailing the buyer and seeing if this could be resolved somehow?

It's good to see that good sense sometimes prevails. I'm still stuck with my 3/5 from a buyer who changed her mind, cancelled the sale and had a full refund instantly, before I'd even reached for the jiffybag! I'm still pointlessly cross, as you can tell.

grownup1

Dear board people - having read all the sage advice on this thread I took the plunge and listed some books that seemed to be in short supply. As so many folk have reported I was visited by the Amazon fairy within 24 hours and sold my first book for £15 (Penguin Book of 20thC Fashion Writing). Thanks for giving me the confidence!

I actually undercut the other copies listed by £30. My thinking was that if the paperback is available for £5 nobody would want to pay £45 for hardback. I wonder if I was right? What do you folks think of books listed apparently randomly at £50 or more (not first ed or collectable), especially when there are related editions much cheaper? It's all very intriguing...

rare_stuff

grownup1 wrote: »

Dear board people - having read all the sage advice on this thread I took the plunge and listed some books that seemed to be in short supply. As so many folk have reported I was visited by the Amazon fairy within 24 hours and sold my first book for £15 (Penguin Book of 20thC Fashion Writing). Thanks for giving me the confidence!

I actually undercut the other copies listed by £30. My thinking was that if the paperback is available for £5 nobody would want to pay £45 for hardback. I wonder if I was right? What do you folks think of books listed apparently randomly at £50 or more (not first ed or collectable), especially when there are related editions much cheaper? It's all very intriguing...

Well there are no hard and fast rules for setting prices, but looks like you needlessly undercut on that one, the paperback edition is showing as having no copies for sale and the £45 being asked for the copy you sold is being set by established sellers rather than chancers that hope people will pay loads more for an out of date edition as sometimes happens. It's possible that there is a newer cheaper version available but doing a search on amazon for "Penguin Book of Fashion Writing" brings up only 2 editions - a £45 one and one with no copies available and a reasonable sales rank of 80,000.

Undercutting to match other editions that are clearly linked from the detail page is a reasonable policy, if the cheaper editions are actually newer is fairly sensible, as long as there is no reason why the older edition is more sought after.

Good luck and have fun anyway!

teapot2

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I am an avid reader of this thread but never get to post as I'm too busy.

Anyway my question is regarding Priority Books and the service they offer. I have access to approx 700 books a week and can't list them all in the time I have available so was wondering whether I should sell them by the box instead.

I did have pro-seller but because I didn't have time and wasn't selling enough I cancelled. I did have approx. 500 books listed but they have all ended and I don't have time to relist at the moment.

All the books I have collected so far are all stored in my shed but I am fast running out of room.

I am located in East Anglia and I know Priority Books are miles away so no being on each other's territory.

The other alternative would be for my husband to give up work - he earns £1000 after tax and concentrate on selling books full time but not sure if we can make that money from Amazon.

Does anyone here sell books full time? I think Soolin does as well as selling antiques.

Alternatively shall I just forget it??

Comments welcome

EE

Hi EE,

I think Katchambers is one of the folk on here who sell full-time and she has started doing that fairly recently. Don't think she posts so often these days - presumably too busy?

Sorry can't answer your other questions but I know anyone can and does post on the seller connection on Amazon. I suspect it might be quite hard work making £1000 profit. You'd have to calculate in cost of stock, storage if you need to rent, Amazon fees, postage [maybe one of those RM accounts?], stationery, cost of time, tax etc etc so need to sell lots to make that kind of profit regularly. Do you need to make that much to live on or is there room to manoevre?

Good luck whatever you decide to do....
Teapot