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Collectible Childrens Books on eBay

As per cc's suggestion, a thread for relatively higher dollar children's books sold on eBay and the ensuing discussions.

A book that looks like nothing.

There are quite a few books that don't look like anything special. Here's one: Security Analysis

Maximizing Sales Fixed Price Format

Most of the books that I list in fixed-price format sell very close to the start or end periods of the listing cycle. Very few sell in-between those points in time. Before eBay stitched to the perpetual relisting run format, I would relist at lower p...

Storm causes flood of orders & ‘tidal wave’ of customers for bookstore

A leaking roof and ruined books led to a flood of orders and ‘tidal wave’ of customers for this bookstore On Halloween night, nature played quite the trick on Jeff Wood, owner of the Whistlestop Bookshop in Carlisle [near Harrisburg, PA]. Around 7 p....

antique family album w/ old photos, how to sell?

100+years old album. Pictures seem from a family and friends relatives. A few pics dated but mostly not. There are a few names. There is a mrs. Clifford p. Covert. There is a baby named Mary Jane Covert born june 1918. Most of the adult pictures were...

6 Books out of 8 Not received from Discover Books order

All packages using the same Tracking number..The USPS got one package & delivered it to me..So it says they were all delivered....Where are the other 6 books??...Seller Discover Books says they were all delivered..NO one package was delivered...Sound...

Resolved! I have a cookbook question, too.

I can find 1944 second edition copies, but no mention anywhere of the 1933 first edition of... An American Cookbook for India by Louise Rankin, published by Thacker Spink & Co in 1933. Anyone ever met one of these? I read about the category problem, ...

what happened to the cookbook category?

Searching for vintage cookbooks reveals 10,000+ junk other than cookbooks. No wonder nothing is selling. What a mess. Ebay please explain the rationale for this dumb change.

HOW RARE IS A FIRST EDITION COPY WITH DUST JACKET OF Goodnight Moon BY Margaret Wise Brown

How rare is this book. Have I stumbled upon another rare treasure? Thanks Aundra.

All New Brand New USPS International Pricing on the Horizon

I missed it in all the excitement but the US under our current POTUS direction managed to re-negotiate the international postal agreement to our advantage: meaning leveling the playing field when it comes to competeing head to head with other dealers...

Recommend a good old school seller that sells ACTUAL books - none of that pdf/kindle/ebook stuff

... none of that pdf/kindle/ebook stuff that slip into the title but you just happen to miss them and think it's an actual, physical book. the ones they made in the 90s. With. Paper. Specifically non-fiction sellers? Recommendations would be greatly ...

All New Item Specifics for books

It seems that once a year, the eBay goblins come back from summer vacation with new tripwires and land mines for us sellers to find, unawares.And, as usual, it seems that while intended to make our job easier they went out of their way to make it mor...

Who heard of Shays' Rebellion? Lots of books on ebay.

I am listening to a book on cd series about the most important events in American history. One of the early sections described Shays' Rebellion. My issue, even with a degree in political science and a law degree, I had never heard of Shays. Not to me...

Who are the high volume sellers used booksellers on eBay?

I'm fairly new to eBay and trying to ascertain who are the biggest sellers of used, old, antiquarian books. I understand these are different categories here. I want to sell in large lots but so far its hard to tell if large lots (c.50-100 volumes eac...

Vintage German Book Die Niederlandischen Maler 17.Jahrhuderts by Max J. Friedlander

I am so out of my league here, is this a book that would sell for 1.00 or a lot higher. There are several cover sheets over what looks like printed pages, not sure any of it is original, not sure why they would have put these sheets over these pictur...

Marvelous

Way to go kidhttps://youtu.be/sr2SnV2iVsM

Auction v Fixed Price Listings: Easton Press

Doing my due diligence prior to attending an auction with a pile of Easton signed books in it, I've come to the conclusion that auctions are not the best choice when it comes to selling this sort of book. This is based on Terapeak results on half of ...