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"Eric Bustad" wrote in message ... Htn963 wrote: "my-wings" wrote: Since a package between 1 and 2 pounds -- sent media mail with delivery confirmation -- would cost $2.39, Without delivery confirmation, it's $1.84. I make no comment on its necessity. Using the USPS Shipping Assistant, MM w/ DC would be $1.97. I need to check this out. It seems too good to be true.....Do you still have to hand these packages in at the window if you print your postage online? Alice |
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my-wings wrote:
"Eric Bustad" wrote in message ... Htn963 wrote: "my-wings" wrote: Since a package between 1 and 2 pounds -- sent media mail with delivery confirmation -- would cost $2.39, Without delivery confirmation, it's $1.84. I make no comment on its necessity. Using the USPS Shipping Assistant, MM w/ DC would be $1.97. I need to check this out. It seems too good to be true.....Do you still have to hand these packages in at the window if you print your postage online? Alice I've only used the Shipping Assistant while using stamps {I'm a stamp collector], so I don't know for sure. = Eric |
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Scrooge wrote:
How/Where can you use the eDC for media mail? Please provide a link. I found the one for the express and priority, but not for media mail. You need to download the USPS Shipping Assistant software from https://sss-web.usps.com/ds/jsps/index.jsp. Windoze only :-(. = Eric |
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hi,
i did a little reseach on the sellers on half.com and found that on average it takes an inventory of approximately 1700 books to sell just one book a day. Considering an average profit of $3 per book, one would have to sell 45 books a day to make a living ($4000/month) selling books on half.com. That would mean an inventory of 76,500 books, enough to fill a decent-sized warehouse. Has anyone here tried to make a living selling used books online, and if so, what do you think of my calculations? thanks in advance BRBR For a number of reasons, the bookseller for whom I consult gave up trying to sell books on Half.com. It wasn't cost-efficient. Over the past year I've noticed that online sales seem to be moving to the lower-end books. It used to be that the average order each month was 12 to 15 dollars per book, but that's fallen now to about 5 dollars. It's unclear whether that's seasonal or a general trend. Certainly the supply of used books has increased, driving the overall price down. But the truly rare books have increased in value enough that their occasional sale makes up for the dilution of the general book market. "Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang." --Benjamin Franklin |
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On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:00:25 GMT, Jonathan Sachs
declared: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 02:29:55 UTC, (Stacy Chung) wrote: ...one would have to sell 45 books a day to make a living ($4000/month) selling books on half.com. That would mean an inventory of 76,500 books... I think your numbers are comparable to those of a typical used bookstore. which is a different ballgame from online selling. it takes considerably less effort to sell a $3 book in a bookstore than in an online venue. robert "I've been long, a long way from here Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos, And drank til I was thirsty again We went searching through thrift store jungles Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo And Benny Goodman's corset and pen" |
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This entire discussion was fascinating. It's one of the few threads I read
all the way through. But, nobody has mentioned that we are still in a recession (albeit a mild one) and people are probably not spending so much on anything, including books, and driving up the demand for cheap $3 books and driving down the demand for 10-15 dollar books. Also, I believe for most of us selling online it's either a hobby or a sideline to our "real" jobs. In my real life I am an English teacher and hope to open a physical bookstore after I retire. But, I also don't--and never will--sell on half.com, except through abebooks or alibris. --Mark. "Stacy Chung" wrote in message om... hi, i did a little reseach on the sellers on half.com and found that on average it takes an inventory of approximately 1700 books to sell just one book a day. Considering an average profit of $3 per book, one would have to sell 45 books a day to make a living ($4000/month) selling books on half.com. That would mean an inventory of 76,500 books, enough to fill a decent-sized warehouse. Has anyone here tried to make a living selling used books online, and if so, what do you think of my calculations? thanks in advance Stacy |
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Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread (or maybe I just missed it)
is that Half.com is free to list on, and once one is familiar with Excel or some other such means of producing appropriate uploads to Half.com, maintaining an inventory on it takes only 5 minutes a day, max. Although it generates fewer sales for me than ABE, Amazon, and even Alibris, I don't LOSE money listing my inventory there and the time I do spend on it is more than reimbursed by even the meagre sales it generates. Just a thought. Frank Jason Oreto Eljay's Used Books Pittsburgh's South Side |
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In article , Eljaysbks wrote:
Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread (or maybe I just missed it) is that Half.com is free to list on, and once one is familiar with Excel or some other such means of producing appropriate uploads to Half.com, maintaining an inventory on it takes only 5 minutes a day, max. This option is only open to dealers who can list at least 5000 books with them (books not only with ISBNs but also in half.com's catalog) -- Jonathan Grobe Books Browse our inventory of thousands of used books at: http://www.grobebooks.com |
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