selling books on Amazon - tips for more profit

MIRRY_2

Interesting thread , i have my great grandads old books and one is called the road to pretoria, just had a shock as they going for £100 + and they all a little worn , this one is like a new book all wrapped up!
I have others of his too but they not on there, there are some full of adverts and it makes me laugh once in a while one will have a telelphone saying call us on 192 LOL.
I feel guilty selling them but they no good to me sitting here and i am scared they will get damaged with 2 kids in the house.

Angela

MIRRY wrote:

Interesting thread , i have my great grandads old books and one is called the road to pretoria, just had a shock as they going for £100 + and they all a little worn , this one is like a new book all wrapped up!
I have others of his too but they not on there, there are some full of adverts and it makes me laugh once in a while one will have a telelphone saying call us on 192 LOL.
I feel guilty selling them but they no good to me sitting here and i am scared they will get damaged with 2 kids in the house.

This is a difficult one,but wouldnt it be nice for them to go to someone who would appreciate them and get pleasure out of them?

Just a thought.

bluesnice

Yippeee! just got an email to say I've sold one of my books! £8.45 profit. I'm really surprised it sold because it was the one i didn't think anyone would want. Its a bit obscure. However, it got me thinking that maybe the buyer would be interested in the other books I'm selling as they are the same subject matter. Is it good practice to pack a list or email of remaining relevent books (only about 10) to the seller? What do you think??

:T

apprentice_tycoon

Yes, I'd let them know, I'd email them now so that if they wanted more the books could be packed together to save a bit of cash

Firefly

I've got a course book I need and could get it from Amazon but can I pay using my Marketplace 'fund'? I've sold loads of books - thanks to this thread but now I want to buy one.

When I sell on Amazon I sometimes treat myself using my PayPal account and wonder if I can do the same from Amazon?

apprentice_tycoon

I don't think you can push money from one 'purse' to the other, you have to consider them as separate not one account like paypal

Brown_suga

Many thanks to the OP, after to reading this post i've managed to make over £60 profit

shagzdan

Ive sold a few books on Amazon and made a small profit from all of the P&P.
One thing to watch though on the undercutting 0.01p seller, is the fact that a "Fake" edition exist's, thus making people like myself sell the book for 0.01p.
They can then boost the price of their book back to their intended price after issuing a 0.01 + expenses refund from their account to the unwitting buyer.
I had a book on there for 2 weeks at £4 and reduced it to 0.01p after the listing went beserk and all but one of the sellers reduced to 0.01p, so Muggins followed suit.
The same person that started the 0.01 trend appeared a few days later with the same book at a Whopping £7, I was gutted.
So I lost money, sometimes it's worth watching the undercutters.

bj-sailaway

OK, let me get this right, so we shouldn't stoop to the 1p game, but hold our price and hope that the 1p 'bait' gets bought and refunded? I suppose this is unless there are loads at 1p, but then you said everyone dropped to 1p? Hmm, not quite sure how we beat this one? Any suggestions? AT, your the pro, what do you think?

apprentice_tycoon

bj-sailaway wrote:

AT, your the pro, what do you think?

Can I have a badge that says so please? I'm not really an Amazon pro in terms of how much money it brings in, Ebay is my main earner.

I'm going to sit on the fence with this one because I don't really sell 1p books, if there is a price war on my other book listings I tend to sit it out and wait till the cheapo books have gone and hope that they don't get replaced with others at the same price. Luckily I have a bit of space to store them (I use those collapsible crates because you can stack them up and I have them in 3's under the stairs) so I can just hang on till I get the price I want.
It all depends on if you think that the book is genuinely worth what you're asking, if you do then it's worth waiting for. If you are a hurry then undercutting is a quick way to off-load.
If you are in the 1 pence game the description is vital so you need to get creative with it - and - I haven't tried this but I believe that if all the books are the same price ie Ip the newest is the first one to be seen on the list so there may be an argument if there is a really large list then you'd keep listing the same book every few days to keep yours at the top, so long as you cancel the rest as soon as you sell the book then you can't sell the same book twice by accident. If there's a rule against this I don't know it because how would anyone know that you don't have say, 5 of the same book that you have listed at weekly intervals, worth a try maybe?