Amazon - A Seller's Paradise

Now that my time at university has come to an end, like many ex-students I've found myself with a room full of unread books but an empty bank balance. With only a part-time job in retail to support me and little chance of landing my dream job anytime soon (offers most welcome), I've had to find other ways of making money.

This is where Amazon swoops in to save the cash strapped ex-student from certain overdraft doom. Amazon is not just a good place to find books, it's also the perfect place to sell those awful university books you cannot stand to look at ever again. It doesn't take a lot to get started and here are the steps and a few tips to get selling...

1. Set up an amazon account at amazon.co.uk, all this requires is a few details such as your email address, payment card information etc.
2. Set up a seller account through your basic amazon account.
3. Find a book you would like to sell, enter the ISBN number (the long one on the back) into the searchbar of your seller account and it should come up with the book you would like to sell.
4. Once you've found the correct book you must enter in certain details about it such as the condition, quanity etc.
5. Select the price you would like to sell the book for and the delivery you can offer.
6. Once you have completed all the information the book will be added to your inventory which you can edit and manage, and will now appear to Amazon customers.

Tips

•  Be honest! Don't advertise your book's condition as 'Like New' if it clearly isn't, Amazon customers can give feeback on your service so if the book they believe to be in good condition arrives with pages missing and sentences underlined they will give you negative feedback which effects your seller rating. When selecting the book's condition you are given space to make any additional notes such as 'slight creasing of spine' or 'a few sentences underlined' so the customer knows exactly what they're getting and there's no surprises.
• It's better just to offer standard delivery to customers of which Amazon will give you £2.80 towards, things get a little complicated and expensive if you offer international delivery.
• Remember that Amazon will take seller fees for anything sold over 99p, and the fee increases with the book's selling price so take that into consideration when selecting your selling price if you want to make any profit. 
• Check out the competition. When selecting your seller price check out what the book is being sold for by other sellers, if you're the cheapest yours is more likely to be sold.