Just a suggestion for you to choose to ignore 🙃I focus on getting £10+ profit on what I sell to take the pressure off dealing with a tonne of slow or low-cost sellers. I aim at a 3-month turnaround. Anything not moved in 6 months (after a list refresh, offers, discount etc.) gets donated. I can't do car boots, jumble trails etc. as I work every weekend and I don't have a car.
Some lovely books there :) Just an idea - list at home ( more comfortable and I guess the first place your items arrive at), take the items to the unit for storage, and pack your orders at the unit where the items then are, so you could post on the way back home - would maybe reduce the number of trips you have to make? I guess that means you would need a printer and laptop or something at the unit though - does it have access to power? You could then store your packing materials at the unit too. I am becoming limited by storage myself, books take up a lot of space, and I only have the spare room. My problem is I don't list them until I have read them! 🤣
Thank you! There’s a lot of things to work out still but no there isn’t power or wifi at the storage which makes things tricky. I’ll get it how I want it at some point I’m sure. 😄
Hi Steve, feeling your pain with the process improvements. I spent many years working in n continuous improvement and reading the Toyota Way was an eye opener. The only book I found that allowed me to understand how to relate the methodologies to my own situation. Keep it up!
i feel like your adding more steps in the process then it should why dont you just have a listing area and packing area at the same spot in the unit if your low on space, you just doing a lot of back and forth to the house, you could have listing/photo table with a label printer underneath it so the table can be a packing area if ur not taking photos. just a idea, just do whatever your comfortable with bro
I’m always making things more complicated than it needs to be. It’s just how I roll unfortunately. There isn’t any power or wifi at the unit which makes things extra tricky.
Steve . Don’t take this wrong but you are never going to make a decent income by purely doing books, primarily Book bundles. They take up lots of room and are generally slow sellers , heavy to post & also low profit. Why not have Amazon FBA as part of your business & also another niche . I sell books . Probably 1500 active listings on eBay and probably similar on Amazon , still need to push other niches though to make decent cash From your videos you seem all over the place tbh . Get organized , treat it like a job and set big targets to hit . 30 items a day , minimum net profit of £10 per as a starting point . Forget the free stuff you find while walking the dog. Focus on buying quality stock that can work for you . Don’t be scared to spend . Good luck ! Your destiny is in your control ,
Hi, so trying to be helpful. You are very unorganised in your process. I started life as a process/production engineer defining and commenting *!( manufacturing assembly processes. I would (and have done this myself) move all books in what ever state they are in to the unit. there I have a jackery powerbank and a thermal printer. Alsoan old MacBook (which I often just leave there) Everything is in one place. including a photo setup. Watching Mel (back from burn out) you'll see what was suggesteddt to her by an American ebayer. So you can photo and store books at the unit and then build listings in your office at home if you wish. I think this is helpful. I hope so.
Thank you. Yes I’m very unorganised. I always have been and probably always will be unfortunately but I’ll work out the best process for me eventually. Unfortunately there’s no power or wifi at the unit which makes things tricky.
Just a suggestion for you to choose to ignore 🙃I focus on getting £10+ profit on what I sell to take the pressure off dealing with a tonne of slow or low-cost sellers. I aim at a 3-month turnaround. Anything not moved in 6 months (after a list refresh, offers, discount etc.) gets donated. I can't do car boots, jumble trails etc. as I work every weekend and I don't have a car.
Thanks Judith
Some lovely books there :) Just an idea - list at home ( more comfortable and I guess the first place your items arrive at), take the items to the unit for storage, and pack your orders at the unit where the items then are, so you could post on the way back home - would maybe reduce the number of trips you have to make? I guess that means you would need a printer and laptop or something at the unit though - does it have access to power? You could then store your packing materials at the unit too. I am becoming limited by storage myself, books take up a lot of space, and I only have the spare room. My problem is I don't list them until I have read them! 🤣
Thank you! There’s a lot of things to work out still but no there isn’t power or wifi at the storage which makes things tricky. I’ll get it how I want it at some point I’m sure. 😄
Hi Steve, feeling your pain with the process improvements. I spent many years working in n continuous improvement and reading the Toyota Way was an eye opener. The only book I found that allowed me to understand how to relate the methodologies to my own situation. Keep it up!
Thank you! I’ll try and check it out. 😊
Can't you set up a packing station in your garage?
Do you mean in my storage? That could be an option at some point. It’s a bit too busy in there at the moment but it might be something I do in future.
i feel like your adding more steps in the process then it should why dont you just have a listing area and packing area at the same spot in the unit if your low on space, you just doing a lot of back and forth to the house, you could have listing/photo table with a label printer underneath it so the table can be a packing area if ur not taking photos. just a idea, just do whatever your comfortable with bro
I’m always making things more complicated than it needs to be. It’s just how I roll unfortunately. There isn’t any power or wifi at the unit which makes things extra tricky.
how much u make a year doing this business?
Not really something I’d be willing to share with some random person on the internet but thank you for the question.
why not try packing it before you sell it and mark it up clearly and put it into a SKU system
Thank you. Yes that could be an option although it might take up more space and time if things don’t sell.
Steve . Don’t take this wrong but you are never going to make a decent income by purely doing books, primarily Book bundles. They take up lots of room and are generally slow sellers , heavy to post & also low profit. Why not have Amazon FBA as part of your business & also another niche . I sell books . Probably 1500 active listings on eBay and probably similar on Amazon , still need to push other niches though to make decent cash
From your videos you seem all over the place tbh . Get organized , treat it like a job and set big targets to hit . 30 items a day , minimum net profit of £10 per as a starting point . Forget the free stuff you find while walking the dog. Focus on buying quality stock that can work for you . Don’t be scared to spend .
Good luck ! Your destiny is in your control ,
Thanks. I’m not a fan of Amazon FBA, I’ve tried it and there’s lot I don’t like so I don’t use it.
Hi, so trying to be helpful. You are very unorganised in your process. I started life as a process/production engineer defining and commenting *!( manufacturing assembly processes. I would (and have done this myself) move all books in what ever state they are in to the unit. there I have a jackery powerbank and a thermal printer. Alsoan old MacBook (which I often just leave there) Everything is in one place. including a photo setup. Watching Mel (back from burn out) you'll see what was suggesteddt to her by an American ebayer. So you can photo and store books at the unit and then build listings in your office at home if you wish. I think this is helpful. I hope so.
Thank you. Yes I’m very unorganised. I always have been and probably always will be unfortunately but I’ll work out the best process for me eventually. Unfortunately there’s no power or wifi at the unit which makes things tricky.