selling used books...

[rockybookz]

Hi. Well guys i know a way you can make money, here is the layout of it..
you can sell book and if you have ever sold stuff on ebay and amazon its basically what im talkin about. all you need to do is find a vendor for these books. when i lived in austin tx i worked for my uncle and the most we made was a little over 80k in 1 month. which is very good minus all other cost its acutally 40k pocket money. you whould start bye goin online and search for the closest goodwill or salvation army distrubution and if there is one in your area go ask to speak to the head person of the place and ask if you can take a look at the books that come in..what ever books they dont sell is what you whould want to buy...basically buying there trash but not really. i whouldnt spend more than 30$ for a full gaylord..."big brown boxes" they may make you buy a minimun amout maybe 25 gaylords thats about 25 thousand books. and if they'll sell it to you. you'll need to rent a truck 24 ft. pick these up take them to a whare house that you'll also need to lease about 2000sq ft. will do. when you get these sort threw them look for the ok shape books" text books, audio books, paper backs hard backs." keep most bookz with isbn barcodes it makes things easier usually starts with 978****...up to you on what you want to sell. after sorting you may have alot of trash about a lil over 50% will be trash like magazines dictionaries newspapers and other stuff..well more money to spend now you throw all this away...some will fit in the trash can the ware house provides...those big ones. the rest you an either take to recycle which there picky..so i take them to the landfill...200$ should do it...paying to toss your trash....well now you have your bookz...next whould be to sign up on scannerpal or scoutpal.com" you'll need a barcode scanner to list them easier then manually typing the numbers in. this program will tell you the highest price for the book and lowest price including the rank the higher the number the longer itll take to sell...try to stay with in 6 digits. you whould probably want to sign up on fillz.com or monsoon to us there uploading program....also sign up with amazon, half, ebay, alibris, and whatever book online store you can sell your bookz on. some cost a fee not all are free....after that you'll list it on whatever program you choose and it'll list in on all the online stores you choose to sell on..you set your price and condition. and please be organized...your warehouse should look like a library..that means alottttta shelves and sku's with be needed. orders will come in everyday so that means you ship everyother day to satisfy customers...shipping means postage and for me that means about $2k a day on postage...but you'll get it back customer pay shipping...but you pay in advance...you'll need a postage printer and postage account with "dazzle". print your sales from your program find the book, pull out put its receipt paper in side the book...after all the sold books are pulled time to sit down and start packing...manila envelopes are cheapest...find a distrubutor for your suppiles too...tape, envelopes, paper, ink cartridges, postage paper, and whatever else you think you'll need. to pack just cut out the add. on the receipt and tape in on the envelope like a package and pit the paper back into the book. pack it good tape the corners... then weigh the package mark on the envelope its weight round down not up. exp. 5.5 oz = 5 oz. anything under 6 oz. should be 1st class shipping ( you make money for first class mail). Use USPS it cheaper. then after that take it to the closest US post office before 4:00pm take it to the back and drop off...thats it..............
This may be overwelming because this is starting it big....starting smaller with like 1000 books inventory is cheaper and low over head...easier you'll make about 5-800$ a week with 1-2000 books in inventory depending on the prices and rank of most your inventory...starting big with about 10-20,000 books in inventory makes about 80k a month but itll cost about 5k to start....

going big takes alota labor 8 hrs a day 5 days a week...but 40k make it sound great...

[wackoo_jackoo]

Sounds great in theory.
I once cleaned out my aunties house and listed about 40 book on ebay all were in great condition. I only sold about 10 of the books for really low prices like 10c
do you auction books or put a set buy now price on them?

[wackoo_jackoo]

and another thing. listing thousands of books would just be so time consuming.
Each book being different means you have to manually list item each time.
lets say you list 1000 books, you need to take a photo, write up a little description and then list item.
one book would take 2 minutes if you got a good system going.
this equals 2000 minutes that is over 33 hours of work.
I think only a small proportion would sell.
Very time consuming

[LiveWise]

Time is money. You have to decide how much your time is worth and how much you can get out of the used books. It's kind of like a garage sale--people only want to pay about 10-25% of the value. There are a lot of books that will never sell no matter what your price is. There are advantages to having new books that people are lining up to buy. Look how much money Harry Potter books made. If the book didn't make money the first time around, they will not likely make a whole lot of money the second time around.

Good Luck with your venture.

[Frenchiexno1]

i think selling books online is tough as everyone naturally goes to amazon

[sleighter]

I have a friend who sells used books on Ebay and Amazon. He spends all weekend taking pics,writing descriptions, and listing them. His family does not know him anymore,and he is still broke.

[JackTheRipper]

I don't know it looks time consuming.

[strategy]

Open a profitable charity; as a business but aimed towards helping people in some way and say, announce that 20% of all profits go to other philanthropic activities. You wont have to run it at all, just hire a manager and possibly some paid and volunteer workers. My youngest brother took on a couple of anonymous little-known charities through work experience for a school project and they all projected over £100k ($200,000 rounded) annually. If you marketed yourself correctly and influenced Public Relation attention, this proposal would be a profitable one.

[rockybookz]

well actually your dont have to take pictures...using the program fillz.com or monsoon with a barcode scanner it already uses the exsiting posting of the exact item...the isbn matches other listed books. most all new books and audio books are printed with an isbn. yes its labor intensive and time consuming and yes listing each book will make your eyes cross but its worth the money it pays off. scoutpal / scannerpal.com is used to show the highest listed and lowest listed price. most all romance novels are 1 cent books but the money makers are mostly text books and most are all low rank so that means they will sell quick maybe in just a few seconds of listing. other hard backs besides text books will usually not have a great prices compared to paper backs other then romance novels. if you live in an area were there is a goodwill or salvation army distribution center you should think about it....at least go in into one and write down some isbns from some of the books and try it on scountpal.com or you can just go to amazon.com itll show prices that they really go for.
goodwill and salvation army arent the first place that whould come in mind when i want to buy a book so what i mean is that nobody really goes to these place to purchase books unless your a book seller. book are usually sold cheap 50 cents for a text book which most will really sell for 50$ online. but the distributer does not know this. so they sell to these books to book sellers for cheap 30$ a pallet instead of making 50cents a books here and there. but i dont live in an area like that now. so no more book selling. plus no ID' required for purchasing..you can go under the law...sounds bad but you can and they wont know....at least what i think that is. but i just recently got my business license and will be getting a resale license along with a DBA. but i whould love to know if anybody knows of a dvd,cd, video distributer that only requires a business licenese and no previous supplier refrences.

[fisel]

My dad does this and it works. Using Amazon theres no need to take pictures, all you need is the isbn code like Rocky said and Amazon does the rest.

He’s been buying text books from Charity shops for years, most books cost him around 50p and he’s never spent more than £2 on a book. Amazon is valuing some of these at over £120 each.

[rogercbryan]

Open a profitable charity; as a business but aimed towards helping people in some way and say, announce that 20% of all profits go to other philanthropic activities. You wont have to run it at all, just hire a manager and possibly some paid and volunteer workers. My youngest brother took on a couple of anonymous little-known charities through work experience for a school project and they all projected over £100k ($200,000 rounded) annually. If you marketed yourself correctly and influenced Public Relation attention, this proposal would be a profitable one.

Be careful here... you want to make sure you send at least 50% of proceeds back to the charity. I manage $1.5M USD in charitable funds (in 2007) and when I here some one say give back 20% I get nervous. The more you send back the more you get up front.

If you are in the US I'd love to chat more about the types of programs my company runs... maybe we can work together.