My first time watching your channel, and I love it! Thank you for sharing your success and experiences. I appreciate your insight, I'm just starting out selling used books on ebay and found your information invaluable. Thank you for taking the time to record and post.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Thank you for watching. Good luck with the book sales. It’s a really fun area to be in. Let me know if you have any questions!

I am so glad I found your channel this morning. I have been a seller for 25 years. Did ebay for many years then got burned out. Had a following so moved over to a private group on facebook. I love books and love selling them. I do well with books in my private group but I need to move back to ebay on some higher priced stuff. I've been wanting to find someone who sells books on ebay so I can get some ideas of what sells and what to sell stuff for. So very glad I found you this morning. Thank you for making videos showing what you sold and what they sold for. That is so very helpful to us resellers!!!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I really enjoy selling books. Definitely comes from a love of reading first for me. If you don’t mind me asking, and if it is possible to answer in a comment, what lead to your eBay burnout? Hope you find some good info from my videos!

Nice to see a new video from you. I like seeing the books that you sell. Congratulations on being at over 1k subscribers.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was excited to hit that 1000 sub mark. I appreciate you watching!

I always enjoy your videos so thank you again!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for coming back and watching! Much appreciated.

Nice, that was a great couple of weeks for you. It looks like you got so more stuff up on the shelves in the background. That last shelf looks full. Thanks for sharing John. Take care and have a great weekend.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Been listing a lot of dead pile lately. Trying to get everything off the floor and on to a shelf! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for all the good information, keep it up. Subscribed with notifications 🙌🔥

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

Nice sells John! Thanks for the heads up on the Project 369 books- that will be an easy one to remember and pick!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Those project 369 books will sell quickly! I appreciate you watching!

Fabulous!! Once again, you nailed your not-a-book goal. I swear - you never miss on that one😊. Nice sales overall - far better than mine

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

It’s been an amazing run! Just hope it keeps going! Thank you!

Thank you! Just learned a lot. Including the word hovel with a follow on word of squalid 😌

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

5 ай бұрын

Both fine, upstanding words! I hope you can fit them in your daily conversation! Lovely hovel. Did you intend on it to be so squalid??Thank you for watching!

Fun to listen to and alot of help to book sellers. Glad I subscribed.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

5 ай бұрын

Glad you did as well! Thank you for watching!

Great job… I love to see what people are buying. & you are entertaining 😊

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the support!

Fun watching your finds. You're doing good

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching.

what fun thanks inspired me to look through my shelves

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

5 ай бұрын

Hope you find some good stuff. And maybe an old photograph or a recipe as well! Thanks for watching!

Great sales! I'll be looking for some of those titles!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Best of luck hunting down some good books!

LOVE YOUR SALES REPORTS.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Makes me happy to hear you share your sales and how you hit your goals 😂

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! On a pretty good streak with those not-a-book goals!

New Subscriber here. I'm looking forward to going back and watching your older videos and those moving forward.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and subscribing! Don’t go back too far. There are some terrible videos back in the beginning!

The David Sedaris book is in my stack to be posted. Thanks for the video and sourcing ideas.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

4 ай бұрын

You gotta get that thing listed! hah! As I recall, it took a while to sell. Good luck with the sales!

i have that same haiku book in my personal collection! I'm glad KZread recommended a fellow bookseller!!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Nice! I can’t believe I messed up the haiku. I meant to say “ A haiku book sold/ it sat AND waited til now/ I got 10 dollars” but I left out the AND. So disappointed!🤣

I am a Spurgeon fan and have collected many of his books. Great sales again!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

He was new to me until I started selling books. Note I look for him all the time. Thank you for watching!

I missed this one when I was out of town last week, but apparently 11,000 others did not! Just awesome!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

That was crazy. I have no idea why. It was just like any other one, as far as I know! Just showed up on somebody’s page at the right time, I guess. Thank you!

Greater Portland Oregon Goodwill Outlet charge $2.29 for hard back books a little less for paperback. I've only sold 2 I spotted that looked like they would sell good. One was a 1939 Chevrolet book on a certain engine, and I can't remember now. It had everything about that engine that was only made for 6-8 years. It had no sleve, A little greese on the front and still sold full asking price of $50.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Yeesh! I still want to visit Portland, but maybe not for sourcing! I definitely would have picked up the book on the 1939 Chevy engine!

Great video 😊

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Just found your channel. Enjoyed your sales info

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching. Hope you’ll be back!

One of the best titles for a video ever. 👍

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Hah! Thank you!!

You'd think some of those old classics would sell better but I suppose it just depends if currently there's a demand by collectors. 🤔 Always great to see what you've sold. Happy book hunting John!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It just somehow seems wrong. Like on a visceral level, you know? Thank you for watching!

Great, interesting to see what books sell. I’m a bookseller in australia. Theres not much money in each individual sale and theres a bit of competition but if you do a few sales it adds up. Im always surprised how little books sell for as well. Bless ! Have a good weekend

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks for watching. Sometimes I get tired of all the 10-12 dollar sales, but I have to remember I only paid 33 cents per book. And, as you said, they add up! Then you get the occasional $100 sale to keep the excitement going! Good luck with your sales!

Interesting post - turned me on to the type of thing I should be looking for. Books are so much easier to deal with than clothing, I just don't seem to be able to find anything much of value. But they're out there, that's for sure.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Good luck with the hunt. I agree that books are easier than clothes. I have sold some clothing but I find it difficult to photograph and I just don’t know what to look for!

💖📚And your Haiku.😂

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Hey! You caught that? Awesome. Not sure how many did!

Greetings from a new book loving subscriber.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Greetings right back at ya! Thank you for watching and subscribing!

Hello from Germany 🙂... I am new here , good to see your books , now I can write down the onse I might read and look for the german one here 😀

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! Thank you so much for watching. I sold a German cookbook last week, but it was in English. But it was sold to a German guy living in the U.S.! So that’s something, I think!😄

Great channel. I have started selling. I notice from the start of my ebay venture is that everything sells eventually. Someone somewhere will want it. 😊

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

So true. That’s why as long as I have room I will keep everything up for sale. It’s when I run out of storage space that I’ll start to cull the herd a bit! I still sell things that have been on the shelf for years!

I like how you stack your books properly. Face down and not upright which eventually damaged the binding.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Much better for the books. It also has a double benefit that I can store a lot more on a shelf that way!

Thank you enjoyed

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

6 ай бұрын

Whoohoo! Thank you!

Hope you can hit your goal next time! 🎉

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Crime and Punishment - that is what my chickens do daily! I should write a book about it. LOL

@sustainfem

Жыл бұрын

😆

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

If you’d behave yourself the chickens wouldn’t have to resort to such things !

G & D outside of children's books does mostly reprints. The Bambi money is in the Simon and Schuster imprint.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Good to know! Thank you for that info. That might explain a lot of those times when I was wondering, "what the heck?" This HAS to be worth more! Hah!

Great sales! You should have a link to your ebay!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have a link in my channel description. Think I should put one linked to each video? That might be better.

There are a lot of crafters that will buy the vintage books for making junk journals. I make baby books from little golden books. Cook books are another book that crafters will buy, especially the vintage Betty Crocker cook books.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

7 ай бұрын

That’s interesting. Never thought about using them as crafts. Thank you for the suggestion!

Great video! New Subscriber here.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! And thank you for subscribing!

I recently picked up a bunch of first edition Dr. Seuss books (under his real name) at the bins. I will really have to research what I have as some of these have fetched some tidy sums. They are also in excellent condition.🤔

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I need to learn which Seuss books are worth money. There are so many around that I tend to not even look at them. So yours say Theodore Geisel? What an exciting find!

@brendarushka9966

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller correct 2 of the books are under Theodore.

Hi great channel Do the goodwill & thrift stores let you go thru the bins of books??? Can anyone buy books from the bins??? Thanks all the best

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

11 ай бұрын

Yes. The bins are at select goodwills where all they have are large blue bins filled with stuff. Books are 2/$1 but everything else is sold by the pound. Clothes are something like $2.39 a pound and other goods are $1.89 a pound. So you stand there and root through everything,getting constantly elbowed in the ribs, looking for the gems. There ares 3 places like that in Houston. All the other goodwills are regular stores. The bins are fun. You never know what you might find!

I bought a whole library at an estate sale, for $400. After less than 30 sales, very average price sales, I broke even. I'm well into the profit now and have a lot of books I didn't even get into listing yet

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

That must have been fun! Just go in the estate sale and say “I’ll take ‘em all!” Congrats! Hope the rest of them sell as well!

@1whitecottagelife770

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller I think they’ll sell good, the gentleman who used to own them had many interests, was a movie buff, had a theater room in his house, was an engineer too and also was interested in war, military history. I got lucky. And I’m really enjoying looking through the books too, before selling them. His wife had a nice collection of quite different style books in there too, I learned the hard way that I shouldn’t list books that I wanted to read first, there was a very unique one that sold right away and I was a bit bummed

Hey John, I'm just curious if you saw your sales **really** slow down around April 1st-ish. Mine were going ok - but came to a grinding halt all of a sudden around the first week of April. Nothing different on my end - just wondering if you saw the same slowdown? Thanks as always for your content - great stuff!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

I just looked a little more closely at recent sales. I saw a big drop off in February and it started to rebound in mid March. April was ok, but not great. But I did not see a big drop off in April like I did in February. Hope you get back to normal or better soon!

@billbled

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller Thanks for the reply and info!

New book seller here and a new subscriber as well. How long did it take you to consistently sell books? I’m really enjoying your channel. Thanks!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and subscribing. The consistency came pretty early, but the volume wasn’t there. Almost right away, once I started selling books, I was selling a book a week or so. It was probably a year before I was averaging a book a day. I have 1300 items currently listed and probably average a couple sales a day. I’ve had 2 today. Remember that i do this very much part time. I source a couple times a month on weekends. I try to list something every day but that doesn’t always happen. You could ramp up much more quickly than I did. Best of luck! Thanks again!

@jazzingforbluejean

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and I’ll add your bookstore to my favorites 😊

eBay inventory solution I’m still looking for a solution to the problem of having items not selling and then being automatically relisted month after month. In the past I used the 30-day listing to manage my inventory. When an came off listing I’d then adjust the price or title or whatever was needed to make it more likely to sell. Now with auto relist I’ll find items sitting on selves for months that I forgot were there. How to you keep control of your inventory and prevent this issue? Thanks!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

That’s a great question and unfortunately I don’t have a great solution. While I still have space, I let everything sit and renew each month. Once I literally have no more space (getting close) I plan to a sort my listing by date started on eBay and start to cull the lot y what’s been sitting the longest. Books in general are long tail items, so I will probably pull items that haven’t sold in a year. Thank you for watching!

@Antiqueexcavator

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller not a bad idea. I think I’ll start that process ASAP. Thanks!

It's a conspiracy you didn't get more for that Rothschild book. Notgrass & Rod & Staff are homeschool material publishers. Homeschooling materials are way in, and they (we) tend to be a thrifty bunch, so resale on those tends to do well. It pays to know those publishers who cater to homeschooling.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

You know, now that you mention it . . . Homeschool publishers, I didn't even think in that direction! Thanks for letting me know. That's a great tip.

@JohnsYardSaleFinds

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller Abeka is a popular homeschool publisher, and we pick them up everywhere we can.

I caught your haiku ;)

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

I think you are the first to mention it! I was wondering if anyone would catch it! Hah!!

@NoName-yl7hu

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller well I’m the one that misses the wafting smoke and thinks you should wear a smoking jacket, so…🤷‍♀️

With the fee's on ebay, and doing promoted, I'm switching my books over to Mercari. Some of the books that were just sitting on ebay are selling over there

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

I have considered selling on Mercari as well. It sounds like you are finding it does better for books than eBay? Or just for some types of books?

@cindyroach9503

Жыл бұрын

They just added Media Mail a few weeks ago and I am also selling more books for higher prices on Mercari

What do you use to research prices to sell for ?

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

4 ай бұрын

Since I only sell on eBay, that is what I use 99 percent of the time. I look at listed and solds on the eBay app. If I don’t find anything there, I’ll check Amazon. Very rarely do I need to go beyond that.

@showgirlsaroundtheworldada4484

4 ай бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller I just found a app to use called book scouter.its free and it works

@brodel77

3 ай бұрын

😊 That's a great app, thanks for the reminder 😊 ​@@showgirlsaroundtheworldada4484

Do you list everyday?

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

4 ай бұрын

I try to. My goal is to list 3-5 books, a hat and something else everyday. I don’t hit that goal very often. Weekends i tend to list quite a bit more. Thank you for watching and thank you for the questions!

What about sales tax and legal forms?

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for the question. Sales tax is taking care of by eBay, so I don't need to worry about that. The only legal form I can think of, is that ebay sends out a 10 whatever it is that lets me know what I need to claim on my income tax. Is that what you were wondering about? Thanks again!

I have a first edition signed copy of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Interested? Have other signed copies of children’s books too. Pristine condition. Owned by one old lady librarian.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful. What a great collection. I’m sure they would bring in quite a bit. Are you planning to sell them?

Do you promote all your listings?

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

4 ай бұрын

I didn’t. Then I did. Now I don’t. I don’t think books is a category that benefits from printed listings. Unless you are selling very popular and lower value books. If there are only 5 copies listed, I don’t see the value of making sure mine appears first. Books as a role are going to take a while to sell.

@showgirlsaroundtheworldada4484

4 ай бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller that's interesting.. I do a lot of used clothes and they are very long tail. Was hoping books would be a faster option

I know you buy from stores but have you ever just bought a box of books and just posted them without looking them up starting bid 99 cents and let ride?

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

No, I’ve never done that! I don’t think I could. Maybe if it was all the same series. Like a box of Nancy Drew or something. But otherwise I would have to look them all up. I’d be too worried I had something valuable in there!

@Dr..Spyder

Жыл бұрын

@@smalltownsmalltimebookseller say if I didn't know and I don't really know about ebay and I posted a book like you have shown that is worth a ton. Are people not going to get a notice or something?

There are so many Goodwills selling books for 3.99 and free shipping. Buy 3, get 1. I don't understand how you manage to sell anything.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

It is frustrating to see those listings when I have something I want to sell. Mostly the Goodwills and massive book sellers deal with best sellers, mass market paperbacks and that kind of thing. The more obscure, the more esoteric, the more likely there won’t be those low end sellers. There are plenty of books out there that you can sell for some decent profit! Thank you for watching and for commenting.

Thanks for sharing 👍. Good sales. There's some info on Dr. Sebi on YT. Popular alternative/ natural health advocate. I've never seen anything related out in the wild.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’ll have to find out more about him. The books really do sell well!

I have no luck selling books on ebay

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Don’t give up! Books are fickle, to say the least. And they are long tail items for the most part. I have 1300 items listed on eBay and I sell about 2 a day on average. Hope the book sales pick up.

@bobscheer6641

Жыл бұрын

Lol...thanks. I sell on Amazon also and the ones I don't send go on ebay. Yes, it's a slow grind..good luck to you too

Why not organize your bookcases

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

9 ай бұрын

Makes it more challenging this way! Actually it is organized. Each bookcase has a number and each shelf has a letter. In my description I put 7B or wherever the book is. Then I only have to search that limited area. Always take pictures of the spine and it is pretty quick to find. I stack them the way I do so I can fit more on a shelf as I have limited space. Thank you for watching and thanks for the question!

@JB-gt5no

8 ай бұрын

Your channel is great. I’ve been thinking of organizing my books like yours to make more room. Some say stacking them like that is bad. Have you noticed anything with stacking your books like that? Thanks!

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

8 ай бұрын

Sorry for the delay in response. I couldn’t find your comment again after reading it til now. I believe it is better for the books to store them flat. Most damage occurred to the edges and corners. This way there is no pressure on those areas. I can store more and I believe it is better for the books!

Crazy that people are engineering microwaves ;)

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

I felt like there was a joke waiting to be told with that book title! Nothing came to me at the moment. Ah, missed opportunity!

I'm so disappointed. At 8:31 you mentioned Lake Jackson without the pronounced enunciation. WHAT?? LOL.

@smalltownsmalltimebookseller

Жыл бұрын

Hah!! Well, I’ll have to give it double treatment next time!