Monday, April 14, 2008

Ever thought about making money with Amazon.com?


My fiancee and I started selling books from her school and our major reading habit on Amazon.com. Last month was the first full month for our "Cup of Words" store and we sold 32 books. See the following:
Month Profit # of Books Refunds Refund Rate
MAR - 2008 $317.84 32 1 3%

This Month we are set to do even better as you can see below: (The numbers are as of 04/14/2008)

APR - 2008 Profit # of Books Refunds Refund Rate
(results to date)$346.16 33 2 6%

We don't buy or even sell books that are way out there in price and they are either sell in gently used or very used condition. We usually get our books when they are on sale at one of the many local book stores, we some times get them from friends whom don't have space to store them and still others actually come from used book stores and garage/yard sales. What's so crazy about the whole deal is that we usually make either what we originally paid for the book or up to 200% more than the cost if we got it really cheap.

Amazon does not charge you for a basic account nor do they charge you to list a book, DVDs, VHS, etc. on their site unless you go on to the pro account that cost $39.95 per month. We chose to stick with the basic account and it has worked out very well thus far for us. Amazon only takes a fee once the product sells and the nicest thing about going with Amazon versus other places is that they include a shipping credit in the amount they charge the customer. There is no need for a merchant account either, they take care of getting the payment from your customer. We put our personal checking account in their system so whenever we want to take out what we've earned the money goes straight in to our account instead of having to wait on a check. You do have to put a credit card on file to handle any refunds or non-delivery of books.

If you want to make a little bit extra each money, why not check out this certified, tested and proven way, after all, it can't hurt because it doesn't cost you anything to get started!

*** If you would like to check out our selection on Amazon, please click HERE. You can use our listings as examples of what you too can list.

Good luck and happy selling!

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