selling books on Amazon - tips for more profit

copperwasher_2

Hats off to apprentice tycoon

So far I have only ever sold on ebay and the problem I have found is that books do not sell very well on ebay. Having read your posting I will now go off and investigate selling on Amazon.

Maybe I'll leave it till the morning though, I think it's bed timezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

apprentice_tycoon

purplepatch wrote:

Have sold a book that none of my supply of padded envelopes is big enough for.

However, I do have an envelope that I could reuse (got hubby a book from the US) but it has Alibris printed all over it.

Will I be doing anything wrong by recycling it for my own sale? I suppose it's a bit misleading, but then again, I'm doing my bit for the environment???

Annoying to have to eat into my profits by buying an envelope from the PO - no cheap envelopes in my village and need to get it posted in the morning.

I don't think that the Alibris envelope would be a bad idea, as you say it's just recycling. When I've had a big book to pack I've wrapped it in bubblewrap and used the really thick bin liners - the one important thing with this is to make sure that the PO staff put the postage stamp label firmly in place.

I had one of these where the book arrived with no stamp label and the customer had to pay to recieve it so I assume that the label didn't stick to the shiny bag very well and peeled off onto another parcel in the sack. Now I put a large sticky label where the post label will go to give it a better base to stick to, I tape this sticker and the address stickers with sellotape as well

larmy16

Sold a couple of books yesterday. When the confirmation email came through it had no title of the book I had sold - Just sold 123 - the first one I thought was an error, then when it happened a second time I wondered if anyone else had this happen over the weekend?

I had to go in to my account to check what they had bought.

soolin

larmy16,

There is another thread running on this subject the title is:

Amazon Pending Order - I don't have that title.

I haven't merged the threads as I think this Amazon one is already quite long enough. However, you might find your answer on there.

Soo

grunnie

Thanks larmy 16 for posting this as it happened to me too. Post item 123 confused me no end and then when it happened again I thought it was for the same item but it wasn't. Hard work for a beginner on computers to work out what book it was. How do you email or contact Amazon?

purplepatch

larmy16 wrote:

Sold a couple of books yesterday. When the confirmation email came through it had no title of the book I had sold - Just sold 123 - the first one I thought was an error, then when it happened a second time I wondered if anyone else had this happen over the weekend?

I had to go in to my account to check what they had bought.

Same here. Thought it was a clever spoof for a minute until I logged in via amazon homepage, rather than clicking on the link, to check!


By the way, since I've been selling on amazon marketplace, I've had my first ever couple of spoof amazon emails, so beware everyone.

apprentice_tycoon

I've sold 2 other books today and the emails came through with the proper titles so it looks like it's been fixed

larmy16

purplepatch wrote:

By the way, since I've been selling on amazon marketplace, I've had my first ever couple of spoof amazon emails, so beware everyone.

Can you give us an idea of the nature of the emails? I am a bit naive about this kind of thing?

purplepatch

larmy16 wrote:

Can you give us an idea of the nature of the emails? I am a bit naive about this kind of thing?

Indeed I can. I had 2 very similar ones from [email="service@amazon.com"]service@amazon.com[/email] entitled Urgent Fraud Protection Group Notice.

You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your Amazon account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your Amazon account by following the link below. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/
(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields) Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Amazon account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud. We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep Amazon a safe place to trade. Thank you for your attention on this serious matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this situation. Regards, Amazon.com
Investigations Team

I found an email address on the amazon website to forward it to, but never heard back from them.

If you get an email you're not sure about, I always find putting the email subject title into google to see what comes up quite helpful.

mah_jong

I got a 123 sale today so not totally fixed!