Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon

Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

On Mar 25, 1:10 pm, "Nobody" wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

I know that Amazon sellers only get a portion (about 70% or so) of
what Amazon charges for shipping ($3.49 for books).
That doesn't leave much of a profit (I'm guessing about $.50, if they
got the book for nothing) after packing, going to the P.O. and all
but, judging from the amount of books I see selling for $.01 there, I
guess it must be worth it.
--
RWF

Nobody wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

My understanding is that these are often used as a way to pump up one's
rating (or to establish a rating when one is starting out).

I have also heard that there are pricing bots where people try to make
sure theirs is the lowest-priced of a particular item. If multiple
people are using these, it drives the price down to one cent.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
Technology is a way of organizing the universe
so that man doesn't have to experience it. -Max Frisch

On Mar 25, 10:10 am, "Nobody" wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

Sure. You are talking about "Shipping Charge Scrounges."
They are not book people, but are a class of human reodent
who will eventually infest any place where it is possible to
make some money on anything. Anyway, a great many
books can be shipped at book rate for around $2 or less.
If you buy enough shipping envelopes, you can get them
for no more than 50 cents. Okay, standard reimbursement
is $3.49, so your "Shipping-Charge Scrounge" can make
a buck or a buck and one-half on each order. Whether
you are talking about selling books or shoe laces, the
same type of greedy low-life would still show up
eventually.

[Memo from the upstairs office.]

wrote:
On Mar 25, 10:10 am, "Nobody" wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

Sure. You are talking about "Shipping Charge Scrounges."
They are not book people, but are a class of human reodent
who will eventually infest any place where it is possible to
make some money on anything. Anyway, a great many
books can be shipped at book rate for around $2 or less.
If you buy enough shipping envelopes, you can get them
for no more than 50 cents. Okay, standard reimbursement
is $3.49, so your "Shipping-Charge Scrounge" can make
a buck or a buck and one-half on each order. Whether
you are talking about selling books or shoe laces, the
same type of greedy low-life would still show up
eventually.

I'm not sure why you think they are greedy low-lifes--most of what
they're selling that cheap isn't worth much more, and even it is, that's
how selling things--books or shoe laces--works.

Or are you saying there should be some official minimum price on books?

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
Technology is a way of organizing the universe
so that man doesn't have to experience it. -Max Frisch

On Mar 25, 4:48 pm, wrote:
Whether
you are talking about selling books or shoe laces, the
same type of greedy low-life would still show up
eventually.

You're proof of that palmjob, you old hemorrhoid.

On Mar 25, 5:03 pm, "Evelyn C. Leeper" wrote:
wrote:
On Mar 25, 10:10 am, "Nobody" wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

Sure. You are talking about "Shipping Charge Scrounges."
They are not book people, but are a class of human reodent
who will eventually infest any place where it is possible to
make some money on anything. Anyway, a great many
books can be shipped at book rate for around $2 or less.
If you buy enough shipping envelopes, you can get them
for no more than 50 cents. Okay, standard reimbursement
is $3.49, so your "Shipping-Charge Scrounge" can make
a buck or a buck and one-half on each order. Whether
you are talking about selling books or shoe laces, the
same type of greedy low-life would still show up
eventually.

I'm not sure why you think they are greedy low-lifes--most of what
they're selling that cheap isn't worth much more, and even it is, that's
how selling things--books or shoe laces--works.

Or are you saying there should be some official minimum price on books?

Honestly, do you really care what that putz palmjob thinks?

On Mar 25, 2:54 pm, "RF" wrote:
On Mar 25, 5:03 pm, "Evelyn C. Leeper" wrote:





wrote:
On Mar 25, 10:10 am, "Nobody" wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

Sure. You are talking about "Shipping Charge Scrounges."
They are not book people, but are a class of human reodent
who will eventually infest any place where it is possible to
make some money on anything. Anyway, a great many
books can be shipped at book rate for around $2 or less.
If you buy enough shipping envelopes, you can get them
for no more than 50 cents. Okay, standard reimbursement
is $3.49, so your "Shipping-Charge Scrounge" can make
a buck or a buck and one-half on each order. Whether
you are talking about selling books or shoe laces, the
same type of greedy low-life would still show up
eventually.

I'm not sure why you think they are greedy low-lifes--most of what
they're selling that cheap isn't worth much more, and even it is, that's
how selling things--books or shoe laces--works.

Or are you saying there should be some official minimum price on books?

Honestly, do you really care what that putz palmjob thinks?- Hide quoted text -

Plainly "Noodle-Flailer" Finnan is green
with envy because readers prefer a
thought-provoking post over his jealous
wheeze! Live with it, Finnan. How can you
blame readers for eschewing your drivel as
sensibly as they might step around a reeking
compost heap?

[Memo from the upstairs office.]

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On Mar 25, 3:53 pm, "RF" wrote:
On Mar 25, 4:48 pm, wrote:

Whether
you are talking about selling books or shoe laces, the
same type of greedy low-life would still show up
eventually.

You're proof of that palmjob, you old hemorrhoid.

Geez. Will you two please get a room?

palmjob, you dried-out old ******, clearly your years of self-abuse
have driven you to the point of delusion.
You are the most kill-filed poster on the Usenet.
Everyone knows you're just a ****tard and an asshat to boot.
You flail wildly but you never hit the mark, you poor pathetic old
hemorrhoid.