Selling your Stuff on Amazon Part 10 - Discussion Thread

juno

When I lived in Kent for a while, I found a local second hand bookshop owner to be really helpful when I had unusual/old books I didn't know the value of. You could try similar secondhand bookshops, although I usually did spend more there than my books were ever worth!

If anyone is in the Kent Medway area, the man I went to owned the "Backroom bookshop" on Rochester High Street. And he was really nice.

katchambers

teapot2 wrote: »

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

Hi EE,

Teapot was right I am one of the full-timers on this board, the only other full-timer that I know of is rare-stuff and he also has a royal mail account, hopefully I will too someday soon.

Feel free to PM me with any questions you have regarding going full time. I haven't been full time for long (2 months) but I have been selling on amazon part-time for 18 months now.

I do believe £1,000 per month is attainable but it would take some time to list enough books to get you to that kind of sales level. Based on my own sales and my most recent profit levels I would say you would need at least 6000 books listed to get that, maybe more. It might be good to do it part-time initially and build your business up, then when it makes a reasonable amount go full-time. That is what I did, I also do some consultancy on the side during the slower months!

Good luck

Teapot - it's true I do not post as often as I used to, I am busy listing as many books as possible ready for the big christmas season, but I will try and pop in more often.

kat x

boston_uk

No worries Donna - I dont think there is a list - I just check the rankings on each book

Thanks Juno - though we dont seem to have a local bookshop here - not one that deals in decent 2nd hand books - maybe a good thing for my wallet!!!

funkyfunkymonkey

boston_uk wrote: »

The last two I asked about on here i emailed bloomsbury about - no answer to date and that was about 2 months ago so I don't think they were interested. At least I can find this book in the listings - just there are none for sale anywhere I can find! The other two just didn't appear to exist anywhere at all!!

*sigh*

Well I'd be happy with £75 I suppose if no-one has any ideas - we need a rare book expert on here!!!!

I emailed them about 6 weeks ago, no answer for me either - I assumed Justin was lucky enough to have been on holiday and/or was really busy with a current auction.

I may try phoning them next week as I am on leave myself for a couple of weeks - I'll let you know if there is any interest from them or whether they just get too many enquiries these days.

FFM

boston_uk

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

I'll let you know if there is any interest from them or whether they just get too many enquiries these days.

FFM

Thanks FFM - much appreciated! I did get a read receipt the next morning so I know they got it. Still can't blame them I suppose, if there was nothing much in it for them - they are a commercial operation after all!

boston_uk

:eek: I now have another - no copies anywhere for sale that I can find - and the Amazon site has this "review" information by the author dated 2006

The 5th edition, paper-back, was by METHUEN and sold 20,000 copies
This book now retails from normal selling price up to £250 second hand.

Mine is as new - unread undamaged just slightly tanned at edges...

Any advise before I lock it in the safe??? Bloomsbury or dont they touch little paperbacks?

boston_uk

it almost makes up for my first 3/5 ever - comments "well packed swift service - great - cheers ... and then a 3/5

needless to say I have written the begging email .....

rare_stuff

boston_uk wrote: »

:eek: I now have another - no copies anywhere for sale that I can find - and the Amazon site has this "review" information by the author dated 2006



Mine is as new - unread undamaged just slightly tanned at edges...

Any advise before I lock it in the safe??? Bloomsbury or dont they touch little paperbacks?

1977 edition or 1984? the 1977 edition has 2 sellers, 1 signed copy at £155 and one notorious drop shipper that probably hasn't got the book in stock, but may be able to source one elsewhere for over £200!

greyskittles

hi, i'm new to amazon-selling. great thread, helped me understand how the whole thing works!

it might be a stupid question, but as the postage allowance for CDs is 96p, and the fees are 86p +17.5% of the sale price, how on earth are people profitting by selling cds for 75p?!

boston_uk

rare_stuff wrote: »

1977 edition or 1984? the 1977 edition has 2 sellers, 1 signed copy at £155 and one notorious drop shipper that probably hasn't got the book in stock, but may be able to source one elsewhere for over £200!

Wow thanks rare-stuff! Mine is the other one - 1984 Methuen edition. Unsigned though. I looked everywhere I know to look but still couldn't find it.