hey my name is mel and i'm a full-time
ebay seller here in australia i keep
getting lots of people asking me
how do i know what is the best type of
books to sell on ebay and the answer to
that question
is the best type of books to sell on
ebay are the books that are going to
make you the most money now the only way
to find out what books are going to make
you the most money
is to do your research as a reseller
there are so many millions of books in
this world
and it's impossible to learn and know
how much every single book
costs now i've been selling books for a
long time and there are a lot of books
that i'm very familiar with
ones that sell regularly on repeat with
me and i'm constantly buying
large hauls which are always sight
unseen
which means i get to learn along the way
as i go because
i'm constantly researching new books
that i otherwise wouldn't have picked up
now the easiest and best way
to learn how much a book is worth is
simply by using your ebay app
on your phone while you're outsourcing
in a charity shop all you need to do
is open the phone app type in the name
of the book that's there on the shelf
for sale
and have a look what it's selling for i
think it's really important to look at
the completed sales because what a book
is selling for
can often be quite different to what a
book is listed for
now one thing i've also noticed is a lot
of resellers tell me
that they're actually uncomfortable
pulling out their ebay app
inside a charity shop and openly comping
these books
or clothing or whatever it is you sell
people are actually
uncomfortable to do that in public
inside a charity shop i don't think you
need to be worried about that
i think that the charity shops are used
to it and i don't ever feel
uncomfortable now pulling out my phone
and running completed sales while i'm in
store
but if you are somebody who is
uncomfortable doing that
i've got a solution for you today i'm
going to take you for a ride down to the
local library that i've got here and if
you want to learn about
books and if you want to do some
research and really have a look at
how much some books are selling for then
this is the best way to do it for you
now obviously when you go down to the
library these books are not for sale
however what you will learn in a few
hours down at the library
will actually probably blow your mind if
you go down to the library
what you can do is look at all the
different genres of books that maybe you
would walk straight
past in a charity shop nobody's gonna
care while you're in the library if
you're using your ebay app
they won't even have a clue what you're
doing now researching books is just like
clothes when you are learning how to
sell clothes on ebay
you need to go and research all the
different brands and there's different
ways to do that
and books is no different you can't just
go to the bookshop pick up
any book and expect to make money on it
think of it as
like when you're at school and you go on
an excursion to learn something hands-on
or treat going to the library just
as an excursion for yourself because the
reseller
who spends time researching and learning
and taking in knowledge
is the reseller that's going to succeed
so let's go for a drive down
to the library and what i'm going to
actually do is video some of the aisles
of the library
and then i'm going to price comp those
books and i'll put the screen share
up on the screen here so you can see
exactly what some of those books are
price comping for
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one of the biggest things guys that you
can do as a reseller is to always be
learning and to
expand your knowledge on things to sell
and it doesn't matter if you're a
clothes seller or a bookseller like me
it's really important to always be
learning and always doing research
always looking up what is currently
selling whether or not that's via the
ebay website
via your phone app where you're comping
anything that you can do to gain
knowledge
will help you become a better reseller
so even just going into that library
i learnt a lot for myself because when i
go out cherry-picking i'm often scanning
with my eyes and looking for books that
are familiar to me
books that i've already sold before and
books that i think might be worth money
but there's so many books around that i
just wouldn't even look twice that in a
charity shop and they are really worth a
lot of money
as you can see there's no real quick fix
easy answer
into what is the best book to sell on
ebay or the best genre
there's millions of millions of books
out there and some of them are just
worth
so much money it's crazy however
you need to do your own research and it
comes down a lot to trial and error
sometimes you're going to go and buy
books and you're going to try and sell
them and they're just not
going to sell the same thing happens to
me sometimes i've got books listed there
that haven't sold
it happens to everyone it's the same if
we're a clothes seller
we often buy clothes they don't sell
it's just part of the game
but the best chances you've got is by
doing your research and looking
up the completed sales on the ebay app
to tell you exactly what has been sold
in the last 90 days
the more you research the more you learn
and then the more you'll retain that
knowledge and then next time you go out
to the charity shops
you might spot one of those books that
you've actually researched before
and go hey i remember that book that was
worth quite a lot of money
you'll run the comps again and it'll
give you the actual cost and you'll go
yes i remembered that that was a good
one i'm gonna buy it
because knowledge is key if you'd like
to watch one of my other videos which
shows
how much i sold some of my books for
just click this little link here and it
will take you through to learn more
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