My First Amazon Sale!

Just head to Amazon and look up these particular items, then click 'buy used' or whatever; I'm nick@beatbay.co.uk if you want my old stuff!

Xpost - Yes! Mum will help!

the rates are pretty high, no?

Buyer's Price: £2.70
Amazon Commission: (£1.40)
VAT on Amazon.co.uk: (£0.21)
Postage Credit: £1.24
Your Earnings: £2.33

although, on more expensive item:

Buyer's Price: £12.00
Amazon Commission: (£2.79)
VAT on Amazon.co.uk: (£0.42)
Postage Credit: £1.24
Your Earnings: £10.03

and yet i can't actually find anywhere a detailed breakdown of the charges.

discogs only charges 5% but most of the stuff i have on there will never shift.

although i have sold a fair bit on discogs for £££ i only have v expensive items and dregs left to sell mostly.

Aye, the chargers are quite high, but at least you know that if something sells you'll get a set price. And with postage rates for certain goods you can make a killing on that. Especially if you save Jiffy bags to reuse.

it's good for me because i can't be fucked with anymore listing and photographing for ebay.

but can anyone actually find a list of commission charges? it's well hidden.

Interesting... the commission and fee schedule is easy to find at the US site, but I can't find it at the UK version.

I sold a Fiery Furnaces CD on Amazon. I've been too lazy to list anything else.

And yes, I did have a slight feeling of "Sucker" that someone would want a crappy Fiery Furnaces CD.

I'm thinking about giving this ago, eBay kinda wears me out lately. This seems simpler to do.
If I sign up to sell stuff through Amazon UK, do the things I offer also appear on Amazon US?

No.

Well that sucks! If you want large coverage of your things for sale, would then the solution be to offer everything on both sites? How do you go about this?

You don't, unless you also have a US address and US bank account to deposit earnings, or have a friend in the US who will list stock for you.

Nick sold Bitches Brew to buy Har Mar Superstar?!?!? My world is shattered.

I need some advice. My ISP was sold and my email address changed a few weeks ago, and they lost a "Sold, Ship Now" email. The customer emailed me Sunday afternoon and said "Never received this item. Will be contacting amazon customer service if issue is not resolved promptly." I apologized profusely and told him I would ship the item (expedited) or give him an immediate refund, whichever he preferred. I haven't heard back from him, so I don't know whether to ship it or refund it.

What would you do? I hate to just sit here with his merchandise, but I don't want him to get the box set and then file an A-Z complaint anyway.

i'd probably refund him without sending the mech and sit tight until you hear anything.

well, i would refund him as well as message him and tell him that you have done so.

Yeah, I'm probably going to take a feedback hit no matter what, so I might as well keep the merchandise.

is there somebody at amazon you can ask?

There has to be a cheaper way of mailing this shit.

Amazon will front something like $3.99 for shipping. The cheapest I can find with the scale at the post office is $4.95. Yesterday, the woman at the counter slapped a $8.10 postage sticker on my envelope and I made her take it off.

I'm selling books mostly. What am I missing here.

That sucks. I've been selling cds and video games (obv. very light), and I basically recoup Amazon's cut with the money they provide for shipping. With books you get the shaft.

Send the items media mail.

with books over standard paperback weight i'll only list them if they are worth £££ or i'll list the price to take into consideration what the excess postage cost will be. the upside is that sending a paperback usually ends up in postage profit for most.

media mail. I'm starting to get a little pissed at that woman at the counter.

some woman came in to get her passport picture taken and the woman at the counter said she couldn't do it, they close it up at 12:30 and there was no time. It was about ten minutes to noon when she said this.

http://pe.usps.gov/text/qsg300/Images/q370%20presorted.jpg

You know, fuck the post office.

I love the post office and the post office loves me, because I took the time to learn how to use it properly.

You mean, you learned that if the passport photos are shut off at 12:30, then by coming in at 11:50, it's too late?

Or did you learn that telling the clerk that you need the cheapest postage available also entails telling them, no, the other cheapest postage available.

I'm not even mentioning the time I tried to buy stamps from the vending machine. The booklet I wanted was under A7. I put the correct amount of change into the machine and pressed the "A" button followed by the "7" button. A packet of postcards fell out of the machine.

I guess I should have taken the time to learn how to use it properly. If only the postmaster general realized this, maybe he wouldn't be in front of Congress begging for more money and threatening to take Tuesdays off.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience several bad experiences a lifetime of horrors at the intersection of Govt and Retail, man.

(I should advertise to do passport photos -- I did Sarah's in about 10 minutes start to finish.)

I can't help somebody who doesn't want to help themselves.

Yep, Media Mail is the way to go.

Incidentally, I've been selling off my CD collection recently via Amazon and I've been pretty pleased with my progress. I was especially happy that some sucka paid $106 for my Beat Happening box set.

I only sell stuff on Amazon if it's worth something (rather than the 99p cds I sell on ebay) because of the postage thing. PP can you print off postage at home. I use the Royal Mail for that here and it has saved me a lot of time and, yes, heartache, at the local PO. I order the boxes and stickers from ebay too. Now if I could fine some way for the postie to pick up my parcels when he delivers my mail I wouldn't have to move from my chair.

I think I'm going to have to get back into Amazon selling, thank you Tanked Economy.

What do people charge for passport photos, anyway?

You know, f. hazel, I'm pretty adept at handling every other retail center that I've been to. I can handle self-serve cashiers at the grocery store, fill out a packing invoice for FedEx, pump my own gas and can even check myself into a hospital for surgery.

However, none of those places are regulated by the federal government and none of those place were ever the topic of a book by Charles Bukowski and there's never been a national catchphrase for killing your co-workers called "Goin' UPS on someone".

I'm glad you "took the time to learn how to use it properly" implying that the rest of us are dumbasses, f. hazel. I hope your future liver transplant comes courtesy of Mr. ZIP himself.

lol

Bukowski was a dumbass.

Nick sold Bitches Brew to buy Har Mar Superstar?!?!? My world is shattered.

It was the complete BB sessions. I bought it when I was a drunk student. Literally. Drunk in the afternoon, passed HMV, spunked £50 on it.

Can anyone explain why some the prices are so wildly different for the same CD.
This one for instance.
Nice CD but is anyone really going to pay £127 for it? Especially when there's one for £25?

Since there's a few people selling it for £110+, I would guess that the people selling it for £10 and £25 recently listed it, which drastically undercutting the other merchants who haven't noticed and/or don't really care.

The £10 is vinyl and shouldn't be there I think. I guess that's the reason. Quite an undercutting.

I was especially happy that some sucka paid $106 for my Beat Happening box set.
Looking at the price of the Beat Happening box set you don't need to undercut that much!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00005NB2P/ref=dp_olp_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1240500047&sr=1-8
Probably your boxset back up. Crazy old world.