Have you sold on Amazon? Can you help me out?

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 26 2009 Posts: 2510

I looked on the Amazon site and other answering sites but I'm still not so clear how to go about selling something or if I even could.

Few questions:
- Do people just sell one thing, or do you have to have a lot of items to sell? I have just this one thing.
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- Is it worth it to sell and ship if it's a big bulky item? How do I know how much shipping is going to cost me? Should I take it to the post office first to see what they say?

- Also, I'm confused about shipping. Say I get a buyer. He pays a shipping cost- is it to me? or does amazon get it? If it cost me a lot to ship, I suffer the losses? I guess I should take it into account when setting the price? Not so clear how it goes.

Thanks! And any other info you have would be great!

Platinum Member Joined: Dec 27 2007 Posts: 7232

you can sell one item or more. If you are just selling one thing here and there, then you pay to ship your item to the person. The only thing Amazon did is hook you up with the buyer and arrange the payment transaction.

If you are selling many items, you can either sell through an amazon sellers account or a webstore, hosted by amazon. Both have different rules. Generally, you would ship all of your many, many items to Amazon's warehouses and then they will ship it to your buyer when the order comes in. This is called "fulfilled by amazon." It is complicated but from what I understand you end up paying about 3.00 in shipping for each item ( more depending on how it weighs) and gift wrapping is free.

Platinum Member Joined: Dec 27 2007 Posts: 7232

you don't need to go to post office, you can do the calculations online I think

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 26 2009 Posts: 2510

Thank you!
So it might not be worth it to sell this item if it's big and bulky. I won't make too much if most will go toward the shipping.

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 26 2009 Posts: 2510

Ok another q-
The item is totally new and unused, and it still has a tag with the company name on it.
But I don't have the box it came in or instructions/papers of any sort. Can I label it as new?

Platinum Member Joined: Feb 20 2009 Posts: 7592

Why don't you try eBay? You can charge whatever you want to ship. Also you can be more clear about the condition of the item and what is included.

Gold Member Joined: Nov 22 2006 Posts: 1733

If its too bulky to ship try selling it on Craigslist, that way the person will come pick it up

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Thank you all!