I am a seller from Turkey and got a huge paperback inventory. I could not sell on half.com because of my home country, they do not accept refistration. Do you think I have a chance to sell my inventory on Ebay?
Thanks in advance
posted on October 24, 2001 03:09:43 AM new
No - unless you have some scarce paperbacks, buyers are not going to pay for shipping from Turkey. Paperbacks are basically giveaways.
posted on October 24, 2001 05:05:59 AM new
I make my living selling books. That includes paperbacks. I don’t know about other booksellers but paperbacks especially mass-market sell for next to nothing. Heck you can buy them at garage sales from .05 to .25.
I sell a lot of mass market paperbacks on Half.com and Amazon.com but the majority of them only go for .75 occasionally I have a title that will bring a few bucks and do well but that is rare. On the other hand it depends what type of paperback books you are talking about. For instants my paperback non-fiction and self-help books do very well.
I sincerely doubt the average mass-market book will be worth selling from Turkey. The postage will
add so much to the price it won’t be worth buying from you. There is so much competition these days in the book business and so many outlets for people to buy from between brick & mortar bookstores and on-line venues they surely would buy elsewhere.
posted on October 24, 2001 08:46:00 AM new
Maybe it would be worth trying to sell large lots of similar-genre books?
It is possible to have books shipped from overseas using m-bag at fairly reasonable rates, though delivery is slow. [unless that's only available FROM the US, not TO?]
Possibly the right collection would interest a bookstore owner or collector.? Like a big collection of romances, some sellers like to buy them to hunt through for the valuable out of print titles by favorite authors.
posted on October 24, 2001 09:50:45 AM new
Some paperbacks are worth a lot of money. I have one title that sells for $200.00. But I have lots of other ones that sell for $25/$50 and up
posted on October 24, 2001 11:17:03 AM new
I have to agree that shipping from Turkey would be prohibitive. Unless you sold them in bulk and shipped them M-bag.
Paperbacks can be very profitable if you know what your looking for. Like Zazzie, I have a few titles that will get $15-50 on a regular basis and a couple that I can count on for at least $100 everytime. They are time consuming to find and I will not share the titles either. Some things have to be held close.
