Promoted listings

[thefamilybookshop]

Greetings Booksellers,

Its taken me a few years BUT i am eventually running a full time used book business on Ebay!

A question tho to all serious booksellers......has anyone used promotions listing for books  in a major way?

I havnt yet but willing to try it with most books if I can get enough peer group encouragement. I can see it working with clothes or elctronics stuff but what about books....please help!

Thanks

[twyngwyn]

Have you tried dropping your prices first, before paying extra?

[thefamilybookshop]

I am pretty confident in pricing the books I have listed , but more interested in if the promoting lstings works for books - thanks

[domino-710]

Just a question - why do you need peer group encouragement. ??

[sugar249]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Just a question - why do you need peer group encouragement. ??

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that way they can blame the peer group if it fails.   People don't want to make their own business decisions, easier to blame others.

[sugar249]

Expensive books.

your postage seems all over the place,   did you pick a figure, double it, add 2.79%, than just selected something random anyhow.  

[thefamilybookshop]

Wow! Its a simple question - I did not ask for an examination of by book selling business , I asked a simple question to see if its worked for any SERIOUS bookseller - not an inquisition from small time sellers

[davewil1964]

I don't and won't use promotions. I have no interest in paying eBay any more than I have to. Especially given store discounts for media are minimal.

I have a blanket 10% discount on sales over $20 and that's it.

I price my books for what they are worth (out of 2000 books listed, I have 2 best offers enabled).

I don't aim to compete with overseas sellers and I don't aim to be the cheapest Australian seller. There are a couple, plus newbies getting rid of stuff, who price far too low for me to compete with them, so I don't.

[repentatleisure1952]

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@thefamilybookshop wrote:

Wow! Its a simple question - I did not ask for an examination of by book selling business , I asked a simple question to see if its worked for any SERIOUS bookseller - not an inquisition from small time sellers

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 I too have a question... how do you know the replies you have received are "from small time sellers"?

[thefamilybookshop]

Thanks Davewill1964 - good feedback. Yes , I dont try and compete with low overseas prices as well.

Like you , I use coupons on a regular basis .......and hardly ever list a book for the cheapest price otherwise the value of books just keep going down . cheers