selling books on Amazon - tips for more profit

Sofa_Sogood

Another two sold ... one for double what I paid for it :eek:

nads

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Another two sold ... one for double what I paid for it :eek:

Well done :T

Not sold anything for a while myself

Sofa_Sogood

nads wrote:

Well done :T

Not sold anything for a while myself

Thanks nads

On one of my rare days out last week, I popped into a local charity shop. I'm not sure who's pricing the books but they're too cheap. So if I sell the ones I bought, I'll pop back and give them some of the money

apprentice_tycoon

Hi Sofa, it looks like your enjoying this!
There are about 6 charity shops in my area and I've seen all kinds of pricing, there is one that charges £1.00 for 3 regardless of hardback, paperback, fiction or non fiction, there is another that seems to charge ridiculous prices and unless I'm certain that a book will sell I leave these alone. There's another that charges 49 pence for the kind of reference books that I usually buy.

I wouldn't feel too bad about making a profit from them because if you make a success out of selling their books you'll be helping them out by keeping things moving on the shelves and you'll keep going back, also some of the books I've bought are ones that I really couldn't imagine them selling at all in a charity shop, they were too specialised but with a wider buying public like amazons they are likely to sell.
Apart from the books, if you keep popping into the shop you are bound to find something else that you just have to have so they'll get money off you that way too.

Nads - keep the faith, they'll pick up again when you least expect it

Sofa_Sogood

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Hi Sofa, it looks like your enjoying this!
There are about 6 charity shops in my area and I've seen all kinds of pricing, there is one that charges £1.00 for 3 regardless of hardback, paperback, fiction or non fiction, there is another that seems to charge ridiculous prices and unless I'm certain that a book will sell I leave these alone. There's another that charges 49 pence for the kind of reference books that I usually buy.

I wouldn't feel too bad about making a profit from them because if you make a success out of selling their books you'll be helping them out by keeping things moving on the shelves and you'll keep going back, also some of the books I've bought are ones that I really couldn't imagine them selling at all in a charity shop, they were too specialised but with a wider buying public like amazons they are likely to sell.
Apart from the books, if you keep popping into the shop you are bound to find something else that you just have to have so they'll get money off you that way too.

Nads - keep the faith, they'll pick up again when you least expect it

It's awkward for me to get to the shops at the moment apprentice, but I hit the book shops whenever I can

But in the case of the charity shop buys, I paid more than the 10p they were asking .... I'd have felt awful taking the (really) good ones for 10p

Barnado's seem to charge an across the board price of £1.50 ... but I've usually got a copy of what they seem to sell. I've only listed one book at a penny so far ... but I've loaded a few on to Green Met too.

It must be helping money go around - I'm buying bubble-wrap from eBay, using up paper I'd already bought from eBay, and jiffy bags - recycled, and from eBay, and pound shops

It's like a cottage industry

And ditto to nads .... keep the faith

apprentice_tycoon

books for 10 pence - that's really good - you don't have to go too far to double your money....

Sofa_Sogood

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

books for 10 pence - that's really good - you don't have to go too far to double your money....

and I'm fussy about books apprentice tycoon - but it would have been stupid not to buy them ...

If I'd have worked there I'd have taken the laptop in and checked the sites.

Or maybe not

purplepatch

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Apart from the books, if you keep popping into the shop you are bound to find something else that you just have to have so they'll get money off you that way too.

Exactly right. I went into the Red Cross shop this morning and bought 3 books for £2.50 which are worth £15 on Amazon, but also happened upon 3 Disney classic videos for my daughter that were just being put on the shelves.

Last week daughter was with me when I went, and wouldn't leave the shop without the toy telephone she'd been playing with whilst I was doing my book bit!

purplepatch

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

and I'm fussy about books apprentice tycoon - but it would have been stupid not to buy them ...

If I'd have worked there I'd have taken the laptop in and checked the sites.

Or maybe not

I try and memorise the titles so can check when I get home.

Trouble is got a memory like a bloody sieve!

numberthree

I have a couple of charity shops locally that don't charge much for books, but most seem to want £1.50 or more and at that price it's often not profitable to buy them to resell - I pick up ones I want to read though if they are in good nick.

I'm getting rather fussy now I've been dabbling in used books for a year and don't like spending more than 50p per book and it has to be in really good condition!

I usually do the charity shop rounds once a week and often come home with half a dozen to list on Amazon and Greenmetropolis.com. It's all fairly quiet at the moment though and I must admit I don't get many sales from Green Met although they are all welcome of course.