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Sell books and media on eBay's half,com site.

By: Carl Broady

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One of the fastest, easiest, and cheapest ways to start your own online business is to sell books on eBay's half site.
Getting your own account on half is a fairly simple and straightforward procedure, if you already have an eBay account it is even easier because you can always simply add a half account to your existing eBay account.
One of the great advantages of selling new and used books on half or eBay for that matter is that they already have the stock information for thousands of modern books in their database, all you have to do is enter the title or ISBN number to see if stock information is available for your book. If it is and you want to list it for sale then all that you need to do is describe in a few short sentences briefly but accurately the actual condition of your copy, all of the rest of the information: The publisher, the author, the publication date and frequently even a stock picture of the book is automatically added to your listing.
Another main advantage of selling books on half.com. as apposed to selling on one of the many other book selling sites is that you don't have to pay a listing fee, a maintenance fee or any fee at all until you actually sell the book. When you do make a sale you pay a flat commission to half. Even this is fairly painless because half collects the payment for the book from the buyer, deduct their commission and then pay you the rest of the money. half.com. make payments to you by direct deposit into your checking account twice a month, details of which you will have to furnish when you establish your account. half.com. calculate the accumulated balance of your sales on the 15th of each month and on the last day of each month.
A few years ago eBay considered shutting down half.com, hoping that the sellers would transfer their inventories to eBay stores. When they saw their Half.com sellers migrating instead to other sites like Amazon, ABE and Alibris they changed their minds and decided in the end to keep Half.
You can of course also sell your books and other media on eBay itself in an auction, a fixed price listing or you can open an eBay store to list your inventory. You can even combine a traditional eBay auction and a fixed price listing by adding the buy it now feature to an auction listing.
There are quite a few different sites on the Internet where you can sell used books and media. Amazon is the biggest but there are others like: Biblio, Alibris and ABE and a number of others.
Sellers who start out on half frequently end up selling on some of these other sites as well.
Some sites only allow sellers to list books on their site, while other sites allow you to sell other media like: CDs, DVDs, video tapes, computer video games and software titles. half is one of the sites that allows its members to sell many different types of media.
Some people sell their books on just one site while other people list their inventory on several sites at the same time.
There are a few advantages and disadvantages to doing this.
The major advantage is much more exposure for your inventory resulting in more sales.
One disadvantage is that sometimes you will sell the same book on several sites in the same day when you only have the one copy. You then have to cancel orders, disappointing customers, which is never a good thing to have to do.
Another disadvantage is that most of the online bookselling sites require a monthly fee and so if you sell the same inventory on several different sites you have to pay several monthly listing fees.
There are a number of companies that market software and also provide a service for listing and maintaining inventories across several different sites at the same time. This service/software of course involves yet another monthly fee.
Book prices can fluctuate a lot, usually, but not always falling in price. For some books, copies are added and sold daily, even hourly with some of the more popular titles. In order to remain competitive sellers have to frequently re-price their inventory. You need to price your books low enough to remain competitive, but you also don't want to "leave money on the table" by selling them too cheaply.
Book prices are determined purely by supply and demand, rising when demand exceeds supply or as is more frequently the case falling as supply exceeds demand.
If you only have a few hundred books then it's a tedious but simple enough task to run through and re-price them manually. If you have a few thousand titles, there is software available to automate this process which you may consider but, then again, this also involves another monthly fee.
If you decide to start an on-line business selling books on half.com You will find it to be very interesting, quite profitable and a lot of fun and I wish you every success in your new e-commerce venture.

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