Mistakes are bound to occur. They are an inevitable part of existence. However, making mistakes is not a good way to grow your used book company on Amazon Marketplace, where you may sell old books, music CDs, and instructional DVDs. Here are six common Rookie Mistakes that you should avoid if you want to build a long-term profitable company selling on Amazon:
- Most people mistook the customer’s request for a thank-you message. Their original plan was to develop a relationship with customers, who bought from them, get them to return to their Amazon Bookstore page, and sell additional books to a satisfied customer. But the client is Amazon’s, not yours. According to Amazon’s Terms Of Service, including a Thank You letter is permitted, but it won’t help you make any money.
- Profits drop as a result. When you put anything inside the box containing your mailed books, you must pay the cost of the card, the time it takes you to fill it out, and any additional postage you will be charged, since you must pay the letter’s first class postage on top of the USPS Media Mail rate. It is ineffective to do all of this stuff. The consumer is not in the market for a new store. They’re seeking for certain titles to purchase. They’ll return if you have what they’re seeking for. The greatest approach to get a former consumer to buy from you again is to find comparable sorts of books, offer them on Amazon Marketplace at a competitive price, and wait.
- Forgetting that purchasers rely only on book descriptions. Rookies are to blame for the most of the issues they have experienced selling old books on Amazon. Early on, they didn’t pay attention to whether or not the book they were offering had any highlighter marks or scribbles in the margins. Because they cannot pick up the book and skim through it, most customers want to know this information. They rely on the vendor to properly and honestly describe the book for them. Because they were in too much of a rush to truly skim through the internal text pages, some people list a marked-up book as Like New. The cover appeared to be brand new, and the spine was undamaged.
- The client, on the other hand, was furious when he received the book and discovered it had been marked up. They quickly returned the purchase price, original postage, and return shipping, plus a 10% premium for wasting the buyer’s time by requiring him to return the book to the Post Office. However, the lesson learnt is to be extra cautious while discussing your novels. As you go through pages of the book, looking for marks or new edition clues, thye generally take longer to list books today — often three times as long. And books that were earlier categorised as Like New are now listed as Used – Very Good. This adjustment has helped to remove any complaints about the quality of the books that have been sold in the last year.
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Conrad Armer 
Barbara Ratliff