Two, refer to your mental catalog of profitable book titles, publishers, or subjects (every experienced Amazon bookseller should have this mental list). (Of anything I’ve contributed to the Amazon selling world, this article might be #1). In other words: two ways you can buy books totally blind and still come out ahead – without ever looking them up on Amazon. There are two ways to assess value without using your Amazon sourcing app. Either your phone isn’t on you, or its an inappropriate context (even after all these years, I can’t get comfortable scanning books right in front of an estate sale host). Sometimes as an Amazon seller, you encounter a collection of books and you just can’t scan them. Spotting Value Without Your Amazon Scanning App Since over 99% of books found while book sourcing are not worth money on Amazon, how could be so confident these books had value?īefore I go into the results of this ridiculous FBA experiment (and reveal this “almost always profitable” publisher), a few words about how to spot Amazon book value – without using your Amazon scanning app… I bought them all – and I didn’t scan a single one. I saw this as an opportunity for an experiment: Is this publisher valuable enough to buy their books totally blind, without scanning? I decided to find out. This is a publisher of titles that have Amazon value over 50% of the time (I’ll reveal their name in a minute…) So far so good.Īs soon as I walked in, I spotted gold from across the room: An entire shelf of books from a niche travel / history publisher that I knew was a goldmine. Last week I was book sourcing at a new library book store. If you prefer video to text, here’s my video narration of this book sourcing experiment (the article below is more in-depth): 9 Was This Book Sourcing Experiment A Success? Video: My experiment sourcing books with no scanner
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |