posted on December 21, 2007 11:54:45 AM new
Amazon can be great if you have the right type of products to sell and very little competition. The books seem to get run down to pricing in the pennies for most common titles. Hard to find unique items can do quite well. If you pay the $40 per month for the Pro account, you never have to relist your items, they stay listed until they sell or you delete them.
Back in the early days (98-99 I think), I used to sell several thousand dollars a month on Amazon. That was before they got flooded with sellers.
I still sell on there, but no where near as much as the good old days.
posted on December 21, 2007 01:12:53 PM new
I've only sold or listed books and music, never anything else, on Amazon. Amazon does take a hefty cut. Here's an example today: I sold a very heavy 4-volume set of hardbacks which will probably cost me $5 to ship. Here's the total, as Amazon sees it:
Quantity: 1
Purchased on: 12/21/2007
Buyer's Price: $17.90
Amazon Commission: ($5.03)
Shipping Credit: $3.99
Your Earnings: $16.86
I may see $11 from this sale, when all is said & done.
posted on December 21, 2007 02:22:12 PM new
I have a few hundred DVDs that I'm never going to watch, or have already watched. Listing them on Amazon is as simple as entering the number on the bar-code-thing. Pick a price and you're done. You get an email when it sells... and they DO seem to sell (as opposed to half.com, where they don't).
posted on December 21, 2007 07:22:53 PM new
Since you have to go to your account to get your sales, I dropped them. I could not find my sales to ship the items and now my ratings are bad enough they would throw my off anyhow. I called them several times and they told me my account was messed up, they never did fix it. I wouldn't go back selling on there for anything.
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posted on December 21, 2007 08:39:14 PM new
I am amazed about people who have success in their Vendio store. In my experience (granted, I have invested 0 time in my Vendio store, the only sales they have generated for me were sales diverted from my eBay auctions. If eBay initiates the sale, why divert customers to a mirror site? Vendio does nothing to promote the sale. Heck, my listings aren't even found in a Vendio stores search. Even at free, it is hardly worth the price.
posted on December 22, 2007 07:40:45 AM new
I do VERY well on amazon...monthly sales far exceeds the cost of the $40/mnth extra. One item that stands out is the HOT WHEELS die cast. I would normally sell a car for an average of 3 or 4 dollars on ebay. On Amazon, one other seller and myself have probably the largest inventory on there of HOT WHEELS. Theirs are priced at unbelievable prices ($10-20 each)...so I was very happy to fee-free list mine for $5-10. Plus as a bonus and I have talked to Amazon on this, but they do not change it; the shipping WEIGHT of these cars are listed at POUNDS..not ounces, so the buyer ends up paying $5-7 for 1st class shipping. I started just with books years ago, but because TOYSRUS was once was linked to Amazon, their toy catalog of UPC numbers is HUGE. I have never even touch the AMAZON AUCTION PORTION they have...but it is another opportunity to make more dollars.
