DVD, CDs, Games Books. What is are realisting rankings of items that ACTUALLY sell?

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DVD, CDs, Games Books. What is are realisting rankings of items that ACTUALLY sell?

I’ve got a DVD, it’s high priced, but its rank is 550,000. So that means, it at some point, sold. Part of me thinks a bird in the hand maybe 8 quid including postage on on the bay, rather than listing here for 40 or 50 and never selling it, seing as there are 2 other sellers.

In DVD’s up to around 70,000 I’d list New or Used against competition, after that I’m dubious. I have found that up to around 70,000 it might sell in a year. This weeks handful of sales include several used up to that ranking, but also a DVD ranked 3,500. Mine was Brand New, priced 3.73 against 8 or 9 Prime, and took a year to sell !

The highest ranked DVD I sold was at 250,000. I only listed because there were no other offers. It sold within 24 hours ! But if I had a DVD which was 250,000 and there were 2 or 3 or 4 other sellers ( with their penny slashing software), I think I’d bin it.

In Used Games, about 1000 - 1500, with 6 or 7 sellers, I could sell in around 10 days to 2 weeks if I priced low and, providing Magpie et al don’t have too many. Then again I have not sold certain games in the top 500 for 6 months or longer because they are so ubiquitous with 20 odd sellers, that MM and WOB simply drag price to a level that it takes months to rise from.

What do people think are realistic sales rankings for media that will actually ever sell. I mean yeah, everything sells eventually, but I’d rather not be leaving my descendants to clear up my hoarding.

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Seller_2BrPSydGy6oyq

Perhaps if you list on ebay @£8 an Amazon seller will see the potential and buy it, then store it for the next few years until they decide it’s growing too much dust and slash the price in the hope of a sale :slight_smile:

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Seller_77We8elabxDtT

I get puzzled by the same question with We Buy Books values. Now they really are virtually cash in hand. So if a second-hand book is £3 from WBB, or £16 on Amazon for a sale that may never happen, I send it to WBB. But for a smaller value.? tricky.

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Seller_P9WE9DmQhKbaT

As you know it all depends on the type of stock and the number of competing copies

If you have a lot of stock of low ranked items which are of niche interest , for instance specialist Jazz CDs, or academic monographs, or instructional martial arts DVDs you will probably sell quite a lot of them on a regular basis, although to clear any given item from your stock in say less than a year is a matter of pure random luck. The key numbers for long-tail retailing are the cost of stock and the marginal storage cost.

I sell mostly books, but also a decent amount of CDs. These take up very little storage space, so there are plenty of titles that I am prepared to keep for years, They still produce a commercial return.

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Seller_amUAzjvL5uIzu

Did not realize how competitive media cats are ,in my cat a rank of 1000 would generate 10+ sales a day.

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