Sunday, August 17, 2014

Pokemon Help and FBA

This week I created my first FBA shipment to Amazon. I've been inspired by some booksellers including Andrew who did an interview on Scavenger Life this past week. I have a couple hundred books listed on ebay and I decided to move a lot of them to Amazon. I may not make as much profit on them but it will free up a lot of shelf space and some of them I've had listed already on ebay a long time.

My first box was 30 books and weighed 25 pounds. It should arrive at Amazon in the next couple days. I'm excited to see how this goes. I like to buy books but I simply don't have the room to store the volume of them that I buy. If I do FBA the space is infinite ;) It did take quite a while to prepare the shipment. I don't have a scanner so I put them in manually. Alot of FBAers have scanners and just scan the bar code. I'm sure that would be quite a bit quicker. We'll see how this experiment goes before I do that.

Can any of you or your kids help me name these Pokemon characters? I have no clue and it seems like there are hundreds of different characters out there. This is a duvet that I just listed on ebay. I've sold quite a few Pokemon items including sheets, pillowcases and plush.




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  1. LorraineAugust 17, 2014 at 10:58 AM

    My daughter to the rescue!
    Rayquaza (green snakey thing)
    Kyogre (blue thing)
    Groudon (red scaley thing)

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    1. NancyAugust 17, 2014 at 11:18 AM

      Thank you Megan! I thought maybe she would know :)

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  2. UnknownAugust 17, 2014 at 11:33 AM

    I would love a short tutorial about how to start selling books on Amazon. Would you be willing to share a couple key points?

    Here's an eBay/Amazon seller who is doing very well doing this, in case you have not seen her blog.

    http://www.extrastudentloanmoney.com/

    I love the idea of getting stuff out of the house right away. I don't have a scanner either, but it might be a good investment.

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    1. NancyAugust 17, 2014 at 11:48 AM

      Thank you for the link. I'll check her out. Once I get more comfortable with it maybe I'll do a tutorial. I did learn a couple of things though that I'll point out here. A lot of my books are vintage and don't have UPC codes or ISBN numbers. For those books I was asked to put in measurements. It freaked me out at first until I realized what was happening. Also Amazon says you have to use a thermal or laser printer to print your individual labels but I saw someone else talk about using inkjet. Since this is all I have that is what I used. I hope it's not an issue. I used standard address labels. You have to put a label on each book. I already had an Amazon seller account so I did not have to set one up. If you have any specific questions let me know and I'll try to help.

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  4. UnknownAugust 17, 2014 at 7:05 PM

    hope it works out for you good luck and congrats on the FBA plunge. If you do end up with a laser printer you can get a Brothers 1 for around $50. My inkjet broke in January toner is SO MUCH cheapr than ink....even refilled ink :D

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    1. NancyAugust 17, 2014 at 8:50 PM

      Thank you Grace. That is good to know. I think I will eventually end up getting a laser or thermal printer. It seems like that is the way to go!

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    2. UnknownAugust 18, 2014 at 7:38 AM

      i have both a laser and thermal label printer. Honestly if I had to do it again I would skip the label printer and just get the pre-stuck half sheet paper that go into the laser/injet printer. The label printer paper is really expensive (retail $25 a roll prints 150 labels)

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  5. randyAugust 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM

    Hi, very interesting post thanks for sharing. Can I contact your through your email. Thanks!

    Randy
    randydavis387 at gmail.com

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  6. Margaret @ Live Like No One ElseAugust 19, 2014 at 5:20 AM

    Congrats on starting FBA! I sell quite a bit on Amazon, but haven't yet entered the world of FBA. Keep us informed on how it goes!

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    1. NancyAugust 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM

      So far I'm anxiously waiting for my boxes to get the warehouse. Like a kid at Christmas. I'll keep you all up to date. My sister started recently too. She was given a lot of books free of charge and I told her she could do much better on amazon than selling them at a rummage sale. Helping her get started inspired me to start myself.

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  7. VanessaAugust 20, 2014 at 10:28 AM

    Aw, sorry, I can't name the new ones :P I only know the original 150

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    1. NancyAugust 20, 2014 at 8:45 PM

      That's okay Van, I can't believe there are MORE than 150! Between you and Lorraines daughter I should be good :)

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