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That looks like a memorable haul! Filled with wonderful and important titles.

Funny: for dog ears in Germany we say donkey corners

I want to see cheap editions of great writers such as Shakespeare,John Milton, homer,Ovid,homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky,Anton Chekhov,alexendar Dumas,guy de Maupassant,Gustave Flaubert,Milan kundera,Johann van Goethe,Emile Zola,alexendar kuprin,adgarAllan Poe,T.S Eliot,George Eliot, Maxim Gorky,Leo Tolstoy,jean Paul Sartre, George Herbert,Charles Dickens,Jane Austen,Oscar Wilde,g.r.r Tolkien., George Macdonald,Jules Verne,Wilkie Collins,Henry fielding,denial Defoe,Albert Camus, Nikolai Gogol, alexendar Pushkin,sa,adi,hafez,firdousi, Henry James,Barbara cartland and many others I have forgotten. But I want them,I would put it simply: i wanna eat these works of their. Please make video showing works of writers I listed and I would buy it

I use a simple post it note on the flyleaf with date, location of purchase and total costs (similar to what you stated). You are 100 percent correct in establishing a good inventory system. Until I did that there were times when it took me about an hour to find an item. I do catalog certain books above a price point. IMHO, great photos and accurate descriptions work very well. Thanks again for the wonderful information.

If I am not mistaken one or perhaps two of the signature verification companies do offer an online review. The accuracy of those online signature reviews, I just don't know. A couple of years ago I had a 1st Ed signed copy(all flashpoints) of American Sniper by Kyle. A prospective buyer paid to have an online review of that signature and sent me the report. The report alleged that the signature was not an original. To be on the safe side, I pulled the listing. A short time later the prospective buyer wanted to purchase the book at a bottom feeder price, I declined. I did some digging and found out that he was a seller of these specific books (not hard to do) under a different name. Be careful out there !! Great content as usual and thanks for sharing.

Happy holidays to everyone

Books are written in solitude, and they're usually sold by loners. It's easier to find a new home for used books than it is to find a boss who makes you feel at home.

Hi Phil, What percentage of your buyers on Ebay are dealers? Could you tell who they are?

Just saw you have a book on eBay for $1200. I have the exact same book, same copy, first edition, all of that....and in slightly better condition. Maybe I should sell mine as well. lol. Glad I came across it.

Hi Phil, I wanted to wish you a merry Christmas and also a big thanks for all the content this year. This past month I landed a full time job at an ABAC/ILAB used and rare book store in my city, a mid-age career change and a bit of a dream come true, and I owe a part of it to your channel. I got my foot in the door there as a scout, and I found your channel through your interview "The Last Book Scout" and used tips and advice on sourcing books that I found there and in some of your other videos. At one point, I also asked you for some book recommendations about book selling, and you took the time to send me a big list. I tracked them all down and read them. During the interview, the owner and I talked about the very books you recommended, and I think it played a big role in my landing the job. Anyway, I wanted to give you a big thanks for what you're doing. I can honestly say your videos and your channel have greatly improved my life. Enjoy your holidays :)

Happy Holidays Phil, love the channel! From Ontario.

Publishing/Printing history can be tough to figure out--you really need to dig deep into multiple copies of the same book or a category of books from a single publisher. Once you unlock the keys, you'll find all sorts of wrong listings on Ebay--such as 1974 First Edition copies of Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends clearly marked HarperCollins, which didn't exist until 1989! I've only found one 1st Edition 1st printing (sadly, no DJ and in so-so shape) in many years of scooping up every copy I find. I was called out this year (in a helpful way) about a Harry Potter First Edition (later printings still state first edition in some cases)---so complicated, and sometimes these wrong listings can saturate and tank the market. I recently found a signed Paul Newman first edition and I was able to compare signatures with another copy online. They were almost identical but just different enough to account for variance that happens when you sign your name repeatedly--plus it had a pamphlet from a cooking event he would have attended as a judge--really hard to tell sometimes when you just have one copy. Merry Christmas, Phil! May your cup be full of cheer or whatever's in that bottle you keep in your desk drawer!

A very Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!

I have had other sellers “price correct” me trying to bump my price because I priced with the medium of their market and they priced at the higher end.

I never scan books. I know exactly what I'm looking for. I don't even care about the ranking of books. After 22 years as a bookseller, I know what my buyers crave.

I found this Doco Enchanting and Beyond Fabulous. One Very Joyous Human. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 24 December 2025. Kalmar Sweden.

I'm not a seller, just a book lover and I always enjoy learning something new. Happy Holidays to you and yours 🫡

Thank you so much for this information. Wish there was a reference book for girls'' series. I have discovered whole series of books I never knew existed. Such fun I don't sell much vintage from before the 1960s on EBay, so I do take advantage of Sell Similar. BUT . . . I always check every setting entered against the book in my hand, and spend time on the copyright/print history page. I find that many of the 20s-30s books are difficult to identify the actual publisher. I would never use Sell Simiar, except it does save me time entering things like entering the title, author publisher names (just proof),. But, for example, I would never trust another seller to have correctly entered the information on a 19th centery James Fenimore Cooper, for example. It can be a good source for information to check, thoug Enjoy your content so much, so thank you so much for this information. Have wonderful holidays! I escaped from the North Country to Michigan.

"If you wanna be a general book seller you're gonna learn a lot" ... Amen! I only use sell similar from my own listings, and then usually just to sell another copy of the same book when I have one. oldnndway

Not boring at all! Thank you much! 👍🏻👍🏻

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hi im from south africa and i have a bunch of old books and encyclopedia i want to sell anyone interested

Wow. I sure wish I would have seen this sooner!! I'm 62 years old now and I don't know much about the internet! This sure would have been a great help for me ! A Few years ago my mother passed away and in her house there was a lot of old collectibles. Lots of old cook books and some other books. Plus magazines anywhere from the 1930s to somewhere into the 90s I never thought that they might be worth money! Most of them are gone now but I keep a few of them from like the 70s and 80s Life magazines, Time and a couple Rolling Stones magazines back from the 70s. If anyone is interested in them please try to contact me somehow. Randy Dillingham

I have got an English bookshop here in France (suburbs) on the side of my teaching business. The city is small and although people love the idea, the foot traffic was slow so I decided to limit the opening hours to only 2 options when we don't have lessons. I tried e-bay for 10 months, had 6 orders so I decided to leave. Started Vinted month and half ago and sales are through the roof so I will be definitely concentrating on that.

Thank you for the helpful thoughts Phil. I was thinking about this a few days ago; Would you consider a Q&A livestream that focuses on this subject? You've answered many questions in your past videos, but I imagine there are many more questions that I haven't even considered and you haven't covered yet. (Maybe you will in your part 3) I find it so helpful to sit at a table with a "meeting of the minds" to throw ideas around and hear off the cuff discussions. In this case a "virtual table" would work perfectly if scheduled with enough notice, and the chat would allow that. Just a thought. I'd sure find it invaluable. Thank you again!

yoooo your last name sounds so mafia hahah. i don’t know many italians i dig it!

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I, for one, I wouldn't become a break dancer--I'm not one--obviously to prove to anyone that I can dance. I became a book seller because I love being surrounded by them. You don't necessarily have to read everything that you plan to sell. But you need to have enough knowledge to know what sell. If you're starting out, I would advise any aspiring bookseller to visit bookstores and study what they're displaying as their best sellers. That's just one method of many. Learn as you go. If you're going to pay the bills with the income made from book sales--don't rely on taking breaks. This is not a business/job where you're looking forward to a two week yearly vacation. If you're lazy, hate lifting, listing, and looking/hunting for books/collections--bookselling is not for you. The hustle is real. There are no breaks. Becoming a street bookseller is a whole different MONSTER. Consider this: booksellers are, more often than not, a car repair away from depression. Ease your way into the book selling hustle. DO NOT LEAVE A GOOD PAYING JOB FOR UNKNOWN TERRITORY--ESPECIALLY IF YOUR LADY IS USED TO: vacations, trips to the nail salon, and dinning out. Joey, I suggest you watch, here on RUclips, the documentary Book Wars. I know some of the guys in the film. It gives an insight into the book hustling world on a street level. Phil has provided excellent advice that you should definitely consider. Keep in mind it's a lonely journey the majority of the time.

Yeah, pay to play... I noticed the other day that Apple is now charging a hefty fee on top of Meta/Facebook. I think it was $21-$22 to Apple to boost an post on Facebook on top of the $50 that was set... That was from a mobile device. I'm not sure if there is a fee on desktop...

Good to see you pop up on here, Phil ! Always enjoy your videos. Thanks !

Snow on the ground! That would shut the South down! :) Happy Holidays to you, Phil.

I'm watching another video and this video popped up in que - now I'm not paying attention tot he first video because this guys is cute! SO I thought I'd think out oud because life is GOOD and this is what it sounds like! (Random Poetic Girl out!) Oh - and I'm an author - should come back and HEAR what cute guy has to say! (There - on my "watch later" list - which is weird because I watched now but gonna listen later!)

I watched the whole thing and am impressed with the fact that it looks hard, difficult, but rewarding.

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Greetings from the Netherlands! Thank you so much! Enjoyed every second of the interview and will watch again as it's so informative and easy going, super.

Lotta love in the room.

Keep up the good work. We are all benefiting.

The best part of this video is when you cover how to live with this knowledge. (around 22:00 to 25:00) I grew up with healthy doses of this type of information. I was shocked in college and then in business with how people figuratively put their hands over their ears and chanted "La la la--la la la, I can't hear you!". You also suggest to "learn how to separate yourself". *Well said*! There are things I know and have seen/experienced. Bothers me deeply, so now I avoid exposure to it. Not sticking my head in the sand that it exists but choosing other issues that I can tackle and still remain upbeat. This is an important video! I'm glad I found it, and that it is still around. Much respect to you!

Fantastic show. Phil, you never disappoint with new videos. The struggle is real. But it's a rewarding one when things get rolling. Wishing great sales for your book stores.

Next step with those Air BNB units is to rent to people who think they want to run a bookstore and they get to pay to stay and work in a bookstore (for free). That's my plan when I can get my store to a smaller more touristy area