Garage Sale, Estate Sale & Yard Sale Message Board Forum

Don't forget Amazon.com - I'm a book lover and have quite a collection.  Sometimes I check a book on ebay and it dies unbid - but Amazon has used listed (if they have some listed for under 5 bucks forget it - just donate yours to the local thrift)

Just recently I sold 2 books for 36 bucks on Amazon.  

There are some guidelines for listing.  Unwritten ones.  Unless you want to sell your items at a loss - don't put your items in at a lower price than ones already there IN YOUR BOOKS SAME CONDITION.

This just starts an price war.  The other guy might just be some big corporation (or just have more money than you) and will keep lowering the price to get rid of you.  

Fiction books and other bestsellers - unless you got it new - really new then you won't get a good price because the industry over prints those titles.  

You need to find the ones that are a bit more obscure but relevant.  Hard to do??  A little.

Also, if you have a whole series of books you might want to go straight to ebay and list the lot as complete.

BUT check Amazon on each title first.  I was getting ready to list a teenage boys set that I had but after checking Amazon I realized that 1 book in the set - #7 - sold by itself for about $40.  The set on ebay only goes for about $20.

If you have books from a set - the last books in the series are more valuable than books 1 and 2.  The series ends because interest wanes - which means they make fewer and fewer books as the series progresses - making the last books harder to find.

NOW - who has something to teach me?  I'm interested in learning about just about anything!

Good to know. I love finding obcure books but it's been a month or two since I found any. I have never bought or sold on Amazon and know it's an area I should explore. Thanks for your insight.

If you ever come across a book called "Principles of Race Driving" by Aryton Senna, for cheap, get it! Its selling at the low end on Amazon for $118, up to $294. I know, because I had to have a copy of it and bought one a few years ago. I could probably sell it at a profit by now, since I believe I bought my copy for around $90.

Here's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1...26-9041522

The last obscure book I found was a 2 volumne 1867 book titled "DISPENSATIONS". I bought for $2. and sold for $10.49. Not the best profit but an unusal book.

Now last year I was at the auction and people many times will buy a table full of stuff then just pick out what they really want and leave the rest to the vultures like me! There was a book I nabbed titled "AMERICAN DAGUERREOTYPES". Got it for free and sold it for $77.65!!!

Wow, never would have guessed with that title, what on earth is a "DAGUERREOTYPE"??? LOL!

An old time-y photo.  This morning I had found 2 more titles sold for me.  Peanuts Cook Book (square paperback from the 60's of 70's - can't remember which right now) sold for $17.

And Star Wars The Moment of Truth - teen title sold for - DRUMROLL please....$42.77

I only had those 2 listed a couple days - also sold a board game that we played once - and I beat my husband so bad that we never played again.  But it only made about 5 bucks after shipping.  Still, at a garage sale it would only have made MAYBE a buck.