Selling your Stuff on Amazon Part 10 - Discussion Thread

teapot2

Hi Eager Elephant, not quite sure why you are miffed? Maybe I'm missing something? Have looked at the link you gave and yours went for the highest price as far as I can see compared to the other 2 listed. Personally I'd be well chuffed if I listed a book one day and sold it the next for £25.

To me thats a good sale - in my opinion better a sale for slightly less than a book sitting on the shelf for months but maybe I'm being dense and missing your point?

Eager_Elephant

Hi everyone,

My point is the same book is available in other formats including another paperback which are going for approx £1.50 so why buy mine when it was so much more expensive.

Of course I'm pleased it all helps.

I have also just noticed that the ranking has come down considerably. When I listed last night it was over 500,000 in the rankings and now it is 19,000.

I reckon it must be part of GCSE or A level school work.

EE

Kaminari_2

Question about refunds.

I had a book returned to me for a refund which i did straight away and emailed the buyer. Buyer waited and contacted a few days later and asked if i had done the refund as it wasn't showing on his account and he had no notification. I double checked and it was definitey done. Do Amazon refund the buyer striaght away when we refund or do they wait and do them once or twice a week?

Thanks

katchambers

soolin wrote: »

EE I wouldn't be miffed at all..I would be very happy that's a good sale.

If anyone has any home making skills could they please knock me up a batch of fairy cakes for the selling fairy who is working overtime in my shed, she must be exhausted. I'm selling stuff so old it doesn't even have a SKU.

Mind you it makes up for the total washout from the books I bought at auction last week. I spent £50 and I am still ploughing through them and basically I have found nothing to set my heart racing. One book has been listed for £50 but is over a million in the rankings so not likely to sell this side of the next century, and I've a few dozen more in the £5-£10 bracket but again horribly low in the rankings and not really likely sellers. The rest are either too heavy for the prices currently listed on Amazon, or have no ranking at all, or worst of all, at least to me, pre 1939 books (many 1st editions)which I can't bear too handle. I have done so many runs to the book dump and to various charity shops and I still can barely open my front door.

The fact that they all have dealers marks in them and all came from the same place rather suggest that they are discarded stock from a book shop or private seller. Apparently there are several thousand more going into auction this week, so at least I'll know to avoid them and to look for the dealers marks first.

Don't get too down soolin, amazon is a marathon, not a sprint (for must of us) so maybe it's better to have a few £50 books that take a while to sell then lots of penny books.

I recently acquired a batch of books that I was very disappointed with, to the point that I felt like complaining to the person I bought them from, then when I checked my figures recently I can see I have already made double my money back with lots left to sell and within that batch was a very low ranked £85 book and £50 both of which sold within 2 months to my disbelief!!

How is everyone doing?

Kat x

rare_stuff

Kaminari wrote: »

Question about refunds.

I had a book returned to me for a refund which i did straight away and emailed the buyer. Buyer waited and contacted a few days later and asked if i had done the refund as it wasn't showing on his account and he had no notification. I double checked and it was definitey done. Do Amazon refund the buyer striaght away when we refund or do they wait and do them once or twice a week?

Thanks

the refund should show on their amazon account if they look and see status of their recent orders. Though it will take 5days or there abouts to hit the customers bank account. The customer would have been emailed but so many customers don;t use the email account they register with amazon or have silly spam filters!

soolin

katchambers wrote: »

How is everyone doing?

Kat x

Very well at the moment, I'm selling all sorts from books I've had in stock for over a year right through to just listed stuff. I think I'm running at around 50 sales a month on an average stock of 1100 or so books.

I did weed out a bit of rubbish though and plan to continue sorting through the older stock as some is just not going to sell and I'm not going to bother storing £2- £3 books if they are in the millions ranking wise.

I'm even doing OK on Greenmet..but ebay is going through a bad patch book wise.

wilf55

very slow at the mo 22 books last 30 days and 30p books at that although i did sell one i got from a friend for £25 so that was a well needed boost

good luck everyone with everything

debsxx

Eager_Elephant

Hi everyone

I sent a book to Denmark on 5/9/07 and today it has been returned to me. (I think the sticker says incorrect address (er ubekendt pa adressen/Inconnu))

I have just emailed the buyer to ask what the correct address is and whether she still wants the book or whether she wants a refund.

The address I used is the one Amazon gave on the SDN.

My concern is that it has already cost me £4.60 to post and if she gives me a different address to post to it's gonna cost another £4.60 and then I will have made a loss.

What do Amazon recommend about this? And what does everyone else think.

EE

boston_uk

EE: dunno, but you got a whole damn week to consider it while the PO unions lose business even faster than before ....

teapot2

Not sure whether to put holiday settings on for a week trouble is they'll be on anyway later in the month 'cos its half term so don't want to be closed for half the month .

I sold a couple last night and with advice not to post have emailed the buyers to ask if they want to wait or take a refund. Hopefully they will recieve the email/ read it/ reply... but am not holding my breath.

Want to carry on listing and of course this can't happen if holiday settings are on aaargh.

What are other folk planning to do?
Teapot