do you have a bunch of books that you
want to sell on ebay or amazon
but they're just not worth much money
and you're wondering what to do
that is the situation i find myself in
hi my name is jason silverstein and this
is my
seventh week selling on ebay my first
assignment or job whatever you want to
call it
was to sell all the real estate
investing materials
that my friend had he's a real estate
investor
he's slowing down all his educational
materials are just taking up space in
his house
he doesn't want him anymore and i agree
to sell it for him
a lot of what i've been selling has been
really good stuff stuff
over eighty dollars some over two
hundred dollars
and now i'm on to the books
and the books a lot of them are only
worth three or four dollars each
on ebay at the end of this video i'll
show you a super quick way to find the
value of each book
if you haven't done so please click the
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on this video because it will make you
feel better i promise
the other thing you may be thinking
about selling the books
is why don't you try amazon books sell
for more money and faster than amazon
yes it's true but still if i have to
ship
each book out individually and the fees
selling fees are higher on amazon
it's still not worth it and then you
might be asking about what about the
amazon
fba program for those of you who are not
familiar with that
i could just ship all the books to
amazon
and they would store it and do the
fulfillment
for me which sounds really great but
then there are
even higher fees for that and if for
some reason the books
don't sell then amazon even starts
charging you storage fees
so that didn't seem like a good option
at first i really didn't know what to do
with the books
and one option was to just to say to
my friend the real estate investor sorry
i can't sell these books for you you're
not worth much money
but that didn't seem like a good option
because then it would just seem like i'm
just cherry-picking the good stuff and
leaving the bad
and i had some good sales some were over
200
and that didn't seem right i needed to
figure this
out because actually i have a lot of
books myself that i might
want to sell what i did is i started
watching some youtube videos on selling
books
and searching around ebay itself
and i figured out that people are
selling books
in lots for example a lot
of a real estate investing lot of books
or a self-development motivational
inspirational lot
of books and that's what i did
i took these four books
and they're mostly real estate investing
they are real estate investing
except for this rich dad one is just
general investing
and i put them together as a lot
on ebay and i'm selling them that way
what i did is i just found the price of
each one of these books added up
together
and then i took about 25 off or so
the price because someone's buying all
four of them
and i just listed it that way and i'll
see what happens but if it doesn't sell
for the price i put
i'll just lower the price until it does
so
so if you're watching this and you know
my username you might be able to get a
good deal on these books
to answer the question that i brought up
at the beginning of the video what do
you do with your books
they're only worth three or four dollars
each
is you group them together in a lot a
lot of four
five six seven eight nine ten books
whatever it is
and then you sell them for at least
fifteen twenty dollars
thirty dollars forty dollars whatever
you can sell them for
but it just makes it worthwhile to
package them up
go to the post office and ship them
much more so than trying to sell each
book individually
for three or four dollars and it it just
doesn't really make any sense
okay now let's go over how to easily
find the value of each book
this is a close-up of me which may scare
you
but that's the only way i could show you
the phone
so go to your ebay app on your phone
it looks kind of like this if you don't
already have it downloaded go ahead and
download it you can always come back to
this video
then what you do is i don't know if you
can see this that well
but you you click on the there's a
search bar search for anything then
there's a camera button
click on that little camera button
now it comes up with a bar code scanner
and you find the barcode on the book
and you simply scan it
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i already have this set for soles and
complete items
so there were one sold item you can see
it sold for
and 51 cents then i could go back and
look at the actives by on clicking
completed and sold items
then what i would do is i would do that
for each book
in the lot of books that i want to sell
i would add all that up and let's say it
all came out to
25 then i would take a certain
percentage off to sell it
because people are buying a lot of them
not a lot of books but
the lot of books and so let's say i want
to take off
25 so i i just
this is not a math class but i just
multiply by
.75 equals
18 dollars and 75 cents
and we just listed at that and see what
happens
hopefully you've had a little value in
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