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Amazon Market Place - Introduction |
Lots of people know about the Internet site Amazon , it is next to eBay™
one of the biggest sites on the Internet with daily traffic in the tens
of thousands.
Next to eBay™
Amazon is one of the biggest sites on the Internet with daily traffic in the tens
of thousands.
It began life as an online bookstore but has grown to monstrous
proportions and you can buy almost anything, from cd’s to wi-fi wireless router.
What a lot of people don’t know about is the Amazon market place, here you can sell your
old books, games, and dvds,
and if you become a merchant seller (£30.00 per month and reduced fees)
you can list pretty much anything you want, the main difference is
though, there’s no up front charge like eBay.co.uk - eBay™
listing fee. The money is
taken out at the end of the sale, although the amount of the fees taken
compared to eBay.co.uk - eBay™
are a lot more, there’s no initial fee to list your
item and you don’t need to write descriptions for books, cd or dvd,
just enter the ISBN (book) EAN (cd) or UPC (dvd) and Amazons own item
description is used. And everything is done using menus so you can list
an item in around 60 seconds.
The you sell at is fixed and you are given money towards the p&p
and you are told how much you will receive for an item if it sells
after deductions.
Because of the fixed price element of the marketplace there is very
strong competition on prices of certain items, there are mass produced
paperbacks that everyone is selling for 1p each, I have sold some books
at this price, you are basically making your money on the postage (like
I just mentioned Amazon charges the buyer a set amount for postage and
gives the seller half the amount they receive)
There is also a ‘wish’ list that users of the site use to say which
items they are looking for and how much they are willing to pay, if you
are listing an item and it’s on someones wish list it tells you how
much they are willing to pay. You can then list it at the price they
will pay or haggle by listing it higher, I have sold books a few time
like this and I have always been surprised how much people are willing
to pay for an old paperback.
There is a feedback system although not used very much from what I can
make out, there’s an auction section to Amazon, not very popular so not
much to buy there, and like you get your own store which you can have
featured items in.
All in all Amazon market place is a good site to make some extra cash
on, it’s quick, there’s no up front fees and the listings last for 2
months or so before you have to re-list, which is just a matter of
clicking a button. So give the Amazon marketplace a try, you’ve nothing
to loose.
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