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@kitty-kat-kollection wrote:
My friend has a store that used to mostly sell (successfully) pre-loved clothes, but she found over more recent times that the clothes aren't selling as well anymore. So she tried selling books, and is doing really well. Yet I can't sell a book to save my life! lol
I'm wondering if those who sell books, CDs, DVDs and the sort of stuff a lot of us may have used to buy from Amazon but no longer can because Amazon US and UK won't post here anymore, might experience an increase in sales due to buyers now looking to ebay instead.
I know last year there were 4 slightly obscure DVDs I wanted to buy as gifts for Christmas and all were on Amazon US for a good price, but sadly, I kept being directed to Amazon AU, which had none of them. So I managed to find them all on ebay.
Basically, would it be smart to sell that kind of stuff...if you can find them cheap enough in the first place of course.
I still sell a lot of non fiction books. I find the ones that sell best for me are the obscure, rare titles that are long out of print. This doesnt have to mean expensive rare though.
I have had success with selling family histories. Some obscure family whos uncle Joe did all of the research in 1975 and produced a quality little paper back book for the centenery family reunion after emigrating to Australia or local histories of tiny little places I have never heard of.. You can buy them for a dollar or two at a garage sale and sell them every day of the week for $20.
I recently purchased a dozen new old stock craft books on an obscure subject ( something like making leather handbags ) from an op shop for $1 each and listed them for $9.95 with international postage. They are selling very well with around half going overseas. I also purchasede around 30 new old stock, long out of print books on training sheep dogs awhile ago. They where just little, cheaply printed paper backs of around 30 pages, but they where written by a well known yard dog trailer around 20 years ago. The box of 30 books cost me $10. Again I listed them at $9.95 and they marched out the door, being one of my best and fastest sellers.
So rare and unusual doesnt have to mean expensive. Its just stuff you cant find anywhere else. I have included a photo of one of the dog books that I kept for my own library ( with mark on cover ) to give an idea of the cheap obscure stuff I,m talking about
Here is another example of those kinds of books. In Retrospect, I probably underpriced them at $4, but they were so small I was able to post them with $1 postage. This is the last one and probably hasn't sold because the cover is torn.
