Selling Your Stuff on Amazon Part 11 - Advice for newbies in first two posts

teapot2

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

To find the sales ranking scroll down to the product details and you will see it there. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Da-Vinci-Code-Dan-Brown/dp/0552154016/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230463842&sr=8-2 this book is 8089 (but will be constantly changing) in the rankings. The current top 100 are here http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_zbw_b_book_more?&pf_rd_p=464310053&pf_rd_s=right-7&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=266239&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1WYWV3Q7G3EZ42CTFEHN

FFM

There's something I don't understand about Amazon sales rankings. Often when beginning to list a book there is a completely different sales ranking after choosing a condition and pressing the continue button - its in a box on the right called 'pricing details for your item'. Its not there for every item but when it is it is often [but not always] lower than the first sales ranking often by several thousand. Not sure why the difference or what it means. Anyone know?

teapot2

smileykylie wrote: »

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone on this thread for their useful advice. Finally got the confidence after reading it to put on some books sitting in my hall and sold my first one already!!!

Well chuffed. Thanks again:beer:

Hi Smileykylie - well done on first sale you'll be hooked and it won't just be a hall full of books :eek: they take over the house!!!

funkyfunkymonkey

I know what you mean - Probably just one of Amazon's little mysteries.

FFM

soolin

teapot2 wrote: »

There's something I don't understand about Amazon sales rankings. Often when beginning to list a book there is a completely different sales ranking after choosing a condition and pressing the continue button - its in a box on the right called 'pricing details for your item'. Its not there for every item but when it is it is often [but not always] lower than the first sales ranking often by several thousand. Not sure why the difference or what it means. Anyone know?

There was the same question on the seller boards a year or so back and someone said that the first ranking on the main page was the one including Amazon sales. The one on the actual sale page was the ranking from marketplace sellers only and excluded Amazon sales..but I think most people disagreed with that theory..

comicmankev

May be a long shot but does anyone out there have more than 15000 books listed?

soolin

comicmankev wrote: »

May be a long shot but does anyone out there have more than 15000 books listed?

Nope sorry, only a tenth of that.

JesaRose

Me neither - only just started my work business on there a couple of months ago and currently have about 420 listings.

tirlittan

Just spend ages listing 31 books on amazon. 3 more boxes to do...Another time methinks.

soolin

Oh dear, remember to check the prices when you can. For some reason a book I have had listed for ages just sold at £2 and I thought that was a good price until I saw the only remaining copies going for oodles:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/0954374762/new/ref=sdp_new/278-0226387-6400071

I assume the book got a mention somewhere, or is on a university reading list or something :eek:

tirlittan

I did and a few were going for good money, well, not sure if they are going, but they were advertised with high prices,so fingers crossed. I had to relist some as well and had to put a few at higher prices as the competition had upped prices as well. I still don't understand how books can go for hundreds of £££, baffles me as I would never buy a book at that price.But I shall be glad if someone wants to buy my books for that price.