Here are my book selling stats for April:
Selling Stats
Number of Sales: 40
Sales: $247.83
Shipping Credit: $154.62
Inventory Costs: $117.08
Amazon Commission: $88.55
Shipping Costs: $95.37
Amazon Marketplace Membership: $39.99 (Recurring monthly fee)
Scouting Software: $30
Brother’s Commission: $15
Total Profit: $16.46
Best Sale of the Month was: Sorry, I don’t have the data in front of me at the moment. It wasn’t anything special, I can tell you that.
Happy to make a profit, even if it’s tiny! Hopefully May is a much better month for the books.
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Where do you get all these books to sell? Why did you choose to tell on Amazon.com? Seems like a pretty big monthly fee when half.com is free.
I buy books at used bookstores, thrift shops and estate sales. I actually started out selling on half.com, but the traffic there is peanuts compared to Amazon’s. I like to turnover my books as quick as I can, so I’m willing to pay the monthly fee and their higher commissions.
Interesting. Seems like a lot of work for only $16 for the month.
Haha! Agreed!
But you just never know…(see January’s results when I made over $550.) For May, I’m on track to do about $150 in profit…which isn’t that great but it sure beats $16.
Well that makes WAY more sense!