Make £10 a Day Challenge November 2015 - everybody welcome

Procrastinater

Aesop wrote: »

just reject all offers lol. put the minimum you will accept is £1 less than what you started at.

I had that kept offering someone prices and they rejected them all. their minimum was 50p less than their starting price.

I know what you're saying - but even at 50p - my "Free" listing ends up costing more than it would if I'd paid to list it ! - Of course I can list a load more obscure stuff and not worry about getting no bids

I'll see how close it will let me set teh "Offer price" for auto reject - but I know it irritates me when they have an "Make an offer" box and keep rejecting - often I end up walking away from something I would have happily bought on a BiN

Oh well try it and see I suppose :beer:

Aesop

Personally I would sell on amazon for what I Want. Not 1p. So if you can beat to part, I would list at a price you want

Procrastinater wrote: »

Completely true - I'm really going to struggle to get 100 without going "Books" - I do have some books worth a lot of money (£40 - 80 ish) but most are really only worth the Amazon 1p - well actually they're worth a lot more - but if some are selling them for 1p - you're not going to get the true value are you ?

It may just be me but for some reason, I don't want to sell the expensive ones and be left with the dross - wierd aint I ? :rotfl:

lexbubbles

Procrastinater wrote: »

Completely true - I'm really going to struggle to get 100 without going "Books" - I do have some books worth a lot of money (£40 - 80 ish) but most are really only worth the Amazon 1p - well actually they're worth a lot more - but if some are selling them for 1p - you're not going to get the true value are you ?

It may just be me but for some reason, I don't want to sell the expensive ones and be left with the dross - wierd aint I ? :rotfl:

You might get more for your books at a car boot. This time of year, an under-cover one is preferable :rotfl: but can chuck the lesser valuable books on the table for 50p each? Or even £1. Remember - they may be on Amazon for 1p but the buyer has to pay postage as well so getting it for £1 or 50p is a 'bargain' for the buyer and a better deal for you

Not worth doing a CB unless you have enough stuff that you reckon you can at least cover the pitch fee though.

I don't even have a car, but my friend is going to help me drag my stuff in suitcases 2 miles to the nearest one in a few weeks. Probably the only CB seller in Glasgow to turn up with her stuff on foot :rotfl:

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Procrastinater wrote: »

Completely true - I'm really going to struggle to get 100 without going "Books" - I do have some books worth a lot of money (£40 - 80 ish) but most are really only worth the Amazon 1p - well actually they're worth a lot more - but if some are selling them for 1p - you're not going to get the true value are you ?

It may just be me but for some reason, I don't want to sell the expensive ones and be left with the dross - wierd aint I ? :rotfl:

I know exactly what you mean, Procrastinater;)

I sell quite a lot of books on Amazon (well, attempt to/hope to anyway) and the 1p sellers are a real pain. They totally spoil it for the rest of us:mad:. I refuse to join in their little game. Once I listed a book at something like 80p (very small and light so could just about get away with a few pence profit from the postal allowance) and it appeared behind a couple of pages of 1p ones but someone still opted to buy mine quite soon after listing:j. I suspect it's something to do with perceived value, anything costing a mere 1p can't be any good type of thing.

Most of the 1p sellers are big businesses and I suppose they can stand the loss but there is no way they can make any profit on a book even with preferential postage rates and less fees if the book is anything heavier/thicker than the cheapest 'large letter' price.

It's a problem to know what to do with the more popular books that Amazon is awash with at 1p a time so I tend to sell mine at car boot sales (along with other stuff) throughout the season. Even at 40p each/3 for £1 it's a lot better than losing money on Amazon and they sell like hot cakes usually.

Procrastinater

lexbubbles wrote: »

You might get more for your books at a car boot. This time of year, an under-cover one is preferable :rotfl: but can chuck the lesser valuable books on the table for 50p each? Or even £1. Remember - they may be on Amazon for 1p but the buyer has to pay postage as well so getting it for £1 or 50p is a 'bargain' for the buyer and a better deal for you

Not worth doing a CB unless you have enough stuff that you reckon you can at least cover the pitch fee though.

I don't even have a car, but my friend is going to help me drag my stuff in suitcases 2 miles to the nearest one in a few weeks. Probably the only CB seller in Glasgow to turn up with her stuff on foot :rotfl:

Dyou know what ? - I LIKE that idea - normally at car boots and charity shops there are just millions of books [ I get "overload" and I LOVE books ! ]- Maybe I can just take a few of various bubjects - "Self help" "Stock market trading" "Gardening", "Handicrafts" "Gambling" etc - clearly labelled in small boxes of say half a dozen for each subject and see what happens.

I used to do a lot of car boots many years ago and my van stayed loaded from one week to the next - but I haven't done one for something like 20 years ! :shocked:

lexbubbles

Procrastinater wrote: »

Dyou know what ? - I LIKE that idea - normally at car boots and charity shops there are just millions of books [ I get "overload" and I LOVE books ! ]- Maybe I can just take a few of various bubjects - "Self help" "Stock market trading" "Gardening", "Handicrafts" "Gambling" etc - clearly labelled in small boxes of say half a dozen for each subject and see what happens.

I used to do a lot of car boots many years ago and my van stayed loaded from one week to the next - but I haven't done one for something like 20 years ! :shocked:

I'm taking along a few of mine (only 15-20 or so I think although I didn't count and they're packed away now. I don't have that many books that aren't either Discworld books or about Egyptology) on Dec 5th so whoever gets done first can report back on success rates

sophieo16

Another £39.86 to add into the total for me after a couple of eBay sales today.

Im hoping to get some more stuff listed at some point this weekend so i can continue to add to my total

Fingers crossed for the weather next weekend so i can get to another car boot sale to sell too! id really like to get rid of everything before christmas!

Total- £183.16

shellyosborne

Just claimed £5 swagbucks via paypal so my grand total is £6 until I can work out my profit on my ebay sales which I should have done by tonight x

Procrastinater

sophieo16 wrote: »

Another £39.86 to add into the total for me after a couple of eBay sales today.

Im hoping to get some more stuff listed at some point this weekend so i can continue to add to my total

Fingers crossed for the weather next weekend so i can get to another car boot sale to sell too! id really like to get rid of everything before christmas!

Total- £183.16

:eek:

Well done sophio ! My ambition is not so high I'd just like to be able to get to the dining room table by Xmas !

shellyosborne

Finally worked out my profit for ebay and from £110 that went into my paypal it's £61.74 eBay fees are so bad now . So that gives me a total so far of £67.74 with one large item finishing tonight, I thought it was last night but made a mistake. I have 9 free listings left so I'm going to try and use them up tonight x