Jesse, I've found it works best for genre books - romance, mystery, sf/fantasy. Recent bestsellers too. Otherwise you don't generally get a lot of action. It's rare to get more than a couple of bucks apiece, but hey, that's better than nothing.
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Jesse, I've found it works best for genre books - romance, mystery, sf/fantasy. Recent bestsellers too.
I have those! So I could get a couple of bucks plus shipping? Maybe I'll do it. What if they're just in OK shape?
I am about to go to this wedding with no bra on. This is not a good week to test me.
I list things as low as 25 cents, but that is just because getting to a PO is easy for me and they all have the Auto-machines. Anything that does not sell in this batch is getting donated to my library.
Huh. Maybe I'll try it!
I list things as low as 25 cents,
Doesn't Amazon charge you 99 cents per?
hunh. I dunno. if I am losing money, I is stupid, but people have stuff listed at a penny. hrm, I should go look.
Nah. It's like 20 or 30 cents for things you list fairly cheaply (like, under ten bucks) and then some percentage of the sales price - like 5%, I think? Some people make money off the shipping too, though for things like books I'd be careful with that. IIRC, a paperback book ships bookrate for something in the neighborhood of $1.50 - 1.75, so I think I used to just say $2 shipping. It's been a while since I did this though.
There's some professional seller fee where you pay a lump sum and then don't pay as much per item or whatever, which I assume is where all the one cent sellers come from.
I dunno, but I just listed four hardcover books I got for free, so we'll see what happens.