Is anyone still selling books
I am wondering who is still selling books and how are they doing. Do you need to sell big volume 1000+ orders a day?
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Seller_BS5lg2keRs2QO
I still sell a few FBA, but have largely moved over to ebay for the cheaper fees. I am though considering listing a few hundred as FBM on Amazon to see how Q4 goes. As for needing to sell 1000+ a day, i’m not entirely sure what you’re asking.
Seller_DROodOAYHftnc
I am a book seller and been selling on here for almost 16 years - all second-hand.
Would echo Demel - not sure what you mean by needing to sell 1000+ a day.
Ebay can be better for books because their search actually finds what you are looking for, unlike Amazon’s search engine, which is terrible for books, along with the rogue sellers who have listed multitudes of rogue duplicates without ISBNs, yet appear first in search results.
On Amazon you won’t !
Seller_EC1z91xo82y71
Oh yeah, should add, ebay works far better for me than this place! Books or not books.
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
If you employ hundreds of people, yes.
If you are a one-man/woman band, no.
If your aim is to be a millionaire in a year or two, yes, but you wouldn’t be able to achieve that on Amazon - it’s physically impossible…unless, of course, you plan on being a dodgy dropshipper…
Seller_mxez2L8QjE6WW
We’ve been selling OP books on Amazon since the old z-shop days (1998/9), and reckon to sell around 30 books a day across Az.uk & .com; & abe, + a couple of small sites that charge on a commission only basis, and are still doing quite nicely. The 1000+ sellers are the megas like WoB & Awesome are basically re-cyclers who buy pallet-loads of charity shop excess stock for pennies, have highly automated systems, & cheap packaging. And that model can go wrong - Bookbarn recently went bust.
Seller_p27bs0l5E6QqD
Amazon is totally depressing at the moment.Selling very few books and getting really fed up with the big boys creaming off sales.Plus no contact or feedback from customers ( why would you - they are going for the really cheap ( ex-lib) copies) Amazon accept all this and their listings are a joke.If I didn’t have 3000+ items I would walk.Now they add to our wows by making it difficult to add books on the Seller Centre page.Nightmare.
Seller_QVpjrN1BsybDT
I’d love to sell 1 book a day !!
1000 a day would be a bonus.
Seller_QVpjrN1BsybDT
Please do not be offended if I ask a question which I have put to a few posters with a query similar to yours.
Are you a genuine bookseller or are you someone who is looking for any commodity to sell on Amazon.
I firmly believe that if you are selling books you must have some knowledge of them. (You dont have to be a booklover but it certainly helps). The sellers who rely entirely on ISBNs and Neilson for their information are major contributors to the mess the catalogue is in
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
I’ve just looked at the relevant help page for the 'new version of ‘Add a Product interface’ and the book category is not even on the list:
Sellers will see incremental changes in the Add a Product tool for the following categories:
# Category Product Types 1 Luggage 8 2 Furniture 20 3 Electronics 120 4 PC 10 5 Home 106 6 Apparel 64 7 Shoes 14
https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/help/hub/reference/G9YKQNSGEKXKPAYT
So…I tried to change the category via help and…:
Updates cannot be made to this product detail page due to one of the following reason(s):
**ASIN is not active in Amazon’s catalogue**.
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
Ah well, I should know what to expect by now but it has so far taken 4 emails to SS just to get them to understand the issue.
The latest reply is this:
We understand that this makes your business impact because of this issue and we understand that makes you feel upset, and we will work towards fixing the situation for you.
Upon checking, we see that product type for the ASIN is updated as “BOOT”. DUe to this, color and footwear_size has been asked.
Hence, to fix this issue provide us the different product type for ASIN
So I guess someone, somewhere carelessly mistook a ‘t’ for a ‘k’ and Amazon’s brilliantly intelligent algorithms went into overdrive…
