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Gate agent: Hmm, your large checked bag only weighs a few pounds. Me: Oh it'll be exactly 50 pounds on the return trip...

This is a terrible guide

The readers digest books as well as the music really good

I'm coming from 4 years as a clothing reseller and most everything you said directly correlates with the grind of selling clothing as well. I'm moving into selling books as well as clothes so I'm searching for people who know more about this than I do.

I volunteer and they say I can scan and list why I volunteer

Suggestion - when you hold the book up for us to see, hold it steady and still for a while so we can adjust to look at it. In this video you flash the book at us, then turn it around or over, or back to you, then back to us - it's too hard to follow! Thanks for the great videos!

So frustrating, I am a beginner--completely--and you quickly say "You just go down to myebay, mysellerhub".... yet, I did not see My Seller Hub on your screen at all, nor did I see what you clicked on. If you are making a 'beginner' video, treat it as such.... Just a suggestion for you going forward.

Price changing is so annoying and I've been there. It's against the law to "Bait and Switch" in my state. I would have teased her on that one and see how they react.

What scanner do you use

I've never understood pricing books like they're a volume commodity . I get estate sales need to quickly price a whole life's accumulation in a rough and ready manner, but it's a book not a bushel of corn. I've seen $5 books priced at twice their retail value simply because they were large and heavy, meanwhile the truly valuable books slumber on the shelves.

Some estate sale company's don't do the family's of the estate or them self's justice when they ask full blown Ebay prices. If that was the last day of the sale that house should be empty. It looked like the 1st day of the sale. Hope you make out on that big score. Let us know. 👍✌️

I love estate sales for finding books, assuming the house doesn't smell like smoke and they don't overprice stuff. I have found those squadron/signal books before for super cheap. One huge BOLO area I tend to look for: hidden signed nonfiction. If it's a celebrity memoir or older notable nonfiction author and the book looks to be in decent shape on the shelf I take the 5 seconds to pull it out and flip through the title page to check for an autograph. Certain estate sale companies (and customers!) oftentimes don't look through every book for this kind of stuff, and I have found some treasures that way.

That was a dandy sale. I have a ton on WWII US, German & Japanese. Also, Revolutionary War, Civil War, architecture etc.

Scoutly Fair Value is $2580 on the lynching book. You hit a nice little jackpot on that one! Congratz!!

Kind of off topic: if you like military history stories, I suggest The Fat Electrician (YT). Very energetic tellings.

I've sold a signed Peter max poster on ebay for $150 I paid $4 for that I found at my st. Vincent de Paul thrift store

I have found several items that I knew would be of value to an organization. I went online and found an organization, told them what i had and asked if they were insterested. If they said yes, I sent it to them and in return received a very nice thank you letter. I also came across an old box of wood pencil sharpeners in the shape of Mickey Mouse. Again, found a collector and sold him the items. $20.00 for a ,25 cent purchase.

Enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing. Curious what seeku byku means?

interesting video. amazing that people will buy vintage magazines. when you sell them in a multi pack, how much do you charge for shipping?

I’d love a video tour of the shelves behind you

Nice finds ! Try Ronsonol lighter fluid on the sticker, does not leave any residue or stain and the sticker will come right off. I keep a bottle at my desk and use regularly for just that problem. Natchitoches is pronounced Nac-o-tish (Louisiana, they say everything different over there)

Great finds. That’s just the kind of titles that catch my eye as well. Thanks for the tips.

Speaking of electromagnetism. Look up Albert Crehore. I found a box of books at a dumpster where I live. Majority were commons. However, the 4 Crehore ones are listed combined ~$500. Crehore was a local scientist / /physicist / inventor from Cleveland. Look up Crehore Sundial.

I am a child of the 60’s-70’s - Peter Max was on my school folders, notebooks, and spiral binders! I have framed art in my home currently. Amazing artist!!!

Salvation Armies up here (Mentor, Ohio) from Mentor to Ashtabula to downtown CLE to Parma are usually few and far between of good media. Last good scoop I got from one were 20+ 1990s rap /hiphop CDs.

Thanks for taking the time to create these videos. Nice military annuals. After years of selling yearbooks and military annuals online, I think this is fairly accurate: when a potential customer asks you to see if the person they are looking for is in your book, the chance of that person being in there is about 5%. The probability of the person thanking you (or even responding to you) when you let them know you looked and the person is not in the book is about 10%. I've been listing a lot of genealogy in the last year (acquired a 20,000 volume private library). If there are no comps, I'd price those Bulletins at $60 for the set of three.

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Good morning Shane. Thanks for the media mail increase reminder. I just spent my coffee time this morning revising my media mail listings. I only ship books in boxes also, thanks to your advice. I did find some mistakes in the shipping. It will be interesting to see what sells now. Love your tutorials!

A couple weeks ago it was busy season as far as sales go. Now it seems as though we’re stalled in the Dry Season.

Buyer paid for shipping, then I paid for shipping also, but their shipping was taken off my sub total - so we both paid for shipping. Has anyone got any clue what to do?

So enjoying your content! Thank you 😊

im glad you have great ppl at the post office😊 thank you for your help!

What a great video! In my particular season of selling - getting my bookselling business up and going and dealing with a few family and health issues - it's a particularly helpful message to hear. Thanks, as always, for your videos and the positive advice!

August is easily my best month every year as a Bookseller but that is because I sell so many textbooks at home school books.

I agree with you about the sourcing, I follow websites of local libraries , they lowered the price so low for few books ....

I definitely understand the caregiving phase! Selling books (even at hobby level vs. full time) has kept me sane during this season of life. I enjoy it so much!

few days ago I sold a book for about 40 euros while it costed me 15 euros ... I think books are profitable if you know what is in demand. I just started selling in ebay last month.

Habitat for Humanity near me has fill a plastic bag for $2. Went there last weekend and got a bunch of 1890s to 1940s clock and watch repair manuals and books, and nice 1st of Diamonds of South Africa) big ~10# $200 book. I get there a few times a month. A few times before that I got 30ish near mint, more obscure "paperbacks from hell". $2 for all and others. Best one sold quick for $70. Godspeed to your mom, and you.

Great Advice ❤

Thank you. This video has reassured me that foxing will not spread like mold would. My practice is to sandpaper it away, if it hasn't penetrated too deeply. The resulting "clean look" is quite satisfying.

Buyer pays shipping seems to ward off many buyers from sending it back to be honest and half the time they open a case and never send anything back

This is a great video. Pricing collectibles is two-fold (what is the "value"--lets say year to year) and what is the price it can be sold for today to the available pool of willing buyers. If we look at a piece of art that has a "value" of $20M dollars...it may not be able to be liquidated at that price on any given day. Often, there is a lot of marketing and build up to an auction to fetch the highest possible price. Local shops and resellers spend little of anything on marketing and hype to reinforce the value of their inventory. To your point, it is very hard for collectors to be resellers because we see the full intrinsic value of an item. We know how hard it was to obtain or the skill and knowledge it took to recognize it and save it from the rubbish bin. That's why it is often best to buy and sell products you just don't care about or collect. That emotional distance allows you to see the dynamic pricing without bias....

Correct. I simply do not understand buyers who think they can dictate the price despite what the market wants.

Warning: Do not watch HRR videos in low light! The retina burn is real but thankfully temporary. It all seriousness, really enjoy your videos. I always learn something. Thank you for sharing your journey.

Catch me on the right day and I'll make a deal, normally I want to get what I have researched to be a fair value. But you always have to decide on whether you want a fast nickle or a slow dime. Most everything will sell eventually if you've been picky in what you list.

Yesterday morning I received a low offer on some books. They were only 48 hours old. I decided to wait until I went to sleep to accept it. Low and behold, they sold for full price before the end of the day!

An important lesson that I had to learn: I'ts better to take some of the money all of the time, than all of the money some of the time.

“A quick nickel beats a slow dime.” I drop prices periodically down to $3.50, then if there’s still no interest, it’s “To the dump to the dump to the dump dump dump!!!!”

This is exactly the reason why I ended my short experiment using an auto repricer for my Amazon inventory. As much as it makes for quicker sales in some instances for some people, it also goes the other way and causes prices to go up beyond what is reasonable and fair (and more importantly, what most people will pay). So I went back to my old way of setting a price that is well thought out, that represents the intrinsic value (plus some buffer for convenience of buying on Amazon) and it works much better. After dropping the autorepricer, I shifted to not following the crowd on certain items where the prices listed were out of whack with the market or reason. My sales went up a lot. Following the extortionary market pricing that sometimes happens on Amazon is the reason that I ended up in the past with hundreds of books (a large percentage of my inventory) that never sold and ultimately lost any value whatsoever online.

I'm doing eBay for a number of years now. I NEVER HAD EBAY AUTOMATICALLY REFUND ME FOR A VOIDED SHIPPING LABEL.