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I can’t quite tell the depth of them from your photo. Are they perhaps coasters?

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There’s been a lot of discussion about this and other new features on the Ebay app on another sellers group I am on. The new update for the app sounds untested and terrible. Some complaints that I have seen are: title screen autofilling and you can’t change it, unable to add photos to drafts, can only do 30 day listings or GTC, defaulting to auctions, adding make an offer to lisings and autofilling the dollar amount, and the one you mentioned above. There have been many phone calls to Ebay and Ebay’s response is “that’s the way the app is now, if you don’t like it switch to the desktop version.”

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Looks more to me like the subject is female. Reminds me of how my grandmother dressed when she lived on the old family farm back in the day.

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I sell any and all books. I don’t bother competing with the low ball listers, ie $4.94 plus free shipping. I list directly on to Amazon and only list a book if it is priced at $10 or higher. If my Amazon listings have a photo, I then migrate them over to Ebay.

Ebay definitely has a bigger audience than Amazon. I sell a wider variety of books on Ebay than Amazon. I’ve also noticed an uptick in magazine sales on both sites.

If I find something special, like for example, a true first of Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (I’ve had a few) I’ll list that directly onto Ebay with lots of photos. My big sale this year was a first edition of an old children’s book, I had it listed for $1000 and took an offer of $800.

Full sets of kids series make for good sales on Ebay too. Oh, and those phonic books can get high prices for individual books. I’ve sold some of those for more than $20 a book. Great money for a beginning reader book.

If you list your books at Alibris they will list your inventory on Ebay under their name.

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As a bibliophile, I do love selling books! They are a long tail item that’s for sure, but you can find lots of stock for little or no cash investment. With Amazon’s increase in seller fees, I no longer list books that sell for less than $10. There aren’t very many penny sellers left on Amazon. Per J & R’s suggestion, I experimented with FBA. Boy, that was a pain. I have given up on FBA. I can list books so much faster and store them myself versus messing with FBA. I’ve gotten most of my Amazon listings converted over to Ebay. I now have over 18,000 listings on Ebay – mostly books. After reading about six-bit and wonderlister here on the forum, I am thinking about trying one of them out for my lisitngs.

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Yes, I’m sure you’re right. A blanket exclusion is the most affordable way to handle it.

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I know I’m a little late to the discussion but I don’t think you can send record sleeves through media mail. You can send records, which is the media, not the sleeves.

I hadn’t heard about yearbooks being excluded from media mail, but I guess that does make sense since there are ads in them.

I know Chuck Rozanski, owner of Mile High Comics in Denver, was arguing with the USPS that older comics and magazines should be able to be sent media mail since the ads are stale.

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Over the years I’ve sold books to quite a number of well-known authors. If they’re a personal favorite, I’ll write a note of appreciation. I’ve received quite a few responses in return which definitely made my day!

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Here’s some online listings for you for comps:

http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/submitRare.cgi?author=&title=Outdoor+Barbecue+Cook+Book&keyword=fawcett&isbn=&order=PRICE&ordering=ASC&binding=Any+Binding&min=&max=&exclude=&nopod=on&match=Y&dispCurr=USD&timeout=20&store=ABAA&store=Alibris&store=Abebooks&store=AbebooksAU&store=AbebooksDE&store=AbebooksFR&store=AbebooksUK&store=Amazon&store=AmazonCA&store=AmazonUK&store=AmazonDE&store=AmazonFR&store=Antiqbook&store=Biblio&store=BiblioUK&store=Bibliophile&store=Bibliopoly&store=Booksandcollectibles&store=ILAB&store=Half&store=Powells&store=ZVAB

Looks like the price range is $5 to $11.45 excluding the crazy $49,000 listing on Amazon.

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Most of my Ebay listings are for books. I use a repricer every few days on my listings. So alot of my listings end up with unusal numbers. No rhyme or reason to it.

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I use Wikibuy. They send you an email when the price changes.

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Don’t beat yourself up too much over it. It happens to the best of us. I had some Ralph Lauren shirts that I did this with a few years ago. They were the same color and had a very similar pattern. I learned from my mistake and started tagging all my items with skus.

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Which program has the dashboard? I have used Quickbooks for years and am using one of the older versions right now. I’ve been thinking about upgrading.

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That’s strange. I just checked on my computer and it is showing up as an option for shipping.

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Without a photo, I’m not sure what kind of stains you’re dealing with, but I find that soaking an item in powdered Biz and then washing in the washer works really well to remove stains.

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