Power Sellers Unite

kimmmie · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 1

can anyone please look at my stores and tell me what if any i need to change or delete to get sales. thanks in adavance

pjrcoffee · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 634

Your pictures as thumbnails often have the player's head chopped off. This is probably due to the square format. You might be able to pad the rectangular card photos to make them square and display them better.

Moonwishes · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 67

I checked your store. A couple quick comments. You need to check spelling and grammar. You say you 'perfer' and I believe the word is spelled 'prefer' and you don't have 'i' capitalized either. Those little things can make a buyer pass on if it looks like the seller isn't professional.

I looked at your baseball cards and since I know nothing about them, I moved onto books. One sentence description of a book and a 'boilerplate' condition comment is not what sells books. Your basic info about the book is only in the title. It should also be included in the description. You should be listing the complete title, series name if part of a series, author, publishers, ISBN, format (paperback or hardcover), publishing date, number of pages and individual condition descriptions for both the cover and text. Also something about the book and what type it is, mystery, novel, romance, etc. Then you have to realize that you are competing against Amazon and their penny sellers, so you need to tell your buyers why they want your book. Also you should take advantage of the ability to put in more pictures and stick a picture of the back of the book also. Be sure your pictures are light enough to see--one I looked at was so dark none of the details were apparent.

These are just some ideas. I think now it is still difficult to sell books on ecrater as there are a huge amount of other venues that do that well that people go to first.

These are just some ideas, but to me the biggest thing I noticed was a lack of good detail about the item you are selling. Don't forget the buyer can't see your stuff in person so you have to tell them everything about it. If you want to sell, you have to put in effort to the selling and your biggest thing is lack of description and mixing up your terms of service, payment stuff and what little description you have. Sell them the item first and then make note of payment info, etc.

mojavelyn · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

I would add the book weight also. And be sure to mention any bumps, nicks or dings to the book, mention whether or not it has a dust cover...

Sometimes paperbacks are issued with dust jackets and these are fairly rare, I have 3. Not that the book itself is rare, but paperbacks published with dustjackets are rare.

I have a self made template I use for listing books. This is one of my books... And I should add in the title the character, since Parker is writing 3 different character series.

And even tho I have dashes in the isbn... its not advised as it could be read as a mathematical problem. The isbn should be designated as Library of congress Catelog, publishers book number, isbn, or isbn-13, depending on the publishing dates.

You can use this if you want... and make adjustements. Copy to a notepad and save it. I have it in a table so I can just go down the right side and make my changes.

Author: Robert B. Parker
Title: Hundred-Dollar Baby
Publisher: Berkley
Edition: Sept 2007 1st paperback edition
Genre: Mystery
Original Cover Price: 9.99 USD
Length: 309
Size: 4.25" x 7.50"
Packed Weight: less then 1#
ISBN: 978-0-425-21755-9
Condition: Used, Gently read. Slight reader's crease and soiling at front hinge. Minor edgewear otherwise, pages clean, binding tight. No discernable spine creasing.