any book sellers here list on multiple sites?

[keziak]

A chronic source of frustration for me is the issue of double-listing here and elsewhere.  It's at least twice the time and work and I already have too little time and energy to keep listings up. I end up removing stuff from ebay that sold elsewhere. But once I try to convince myself that this double-listing is worthless I scan my ebay sales and find a decent number sold here first. I'm not happy with the status quo but uneasy about losing those sales. It's a gray area: selling just enough to be not completely useless, but not selling enough to make me thrilled about the work. Anyone else trying to figure this issue out? 

[go-bad-chicken]

"any book sellers here list on multiple sites?"

Absolutely! I started here, learned how to sell here, learned how to provide great customer service here, learned how to ship here, and for that I am grateful to eBay. But with that said I also learned that you can place all your eggs in a whole lot of baskets. 

I now sell books on:

eBay 

ABE

Biblio

Alilibris

Amazon 

Etsy

Shopify 

Instagram

Facebook

xxxxxxxx Auctions

and my own website...... xxxxxxxBooks.com

[chapeau-noir]

I don't find double listing to take much more time than single listing - the photos and description is already written up.  Yes, I end up removing a listing from one site when it sells on another, but it's no big deal, since it didn't take me very long to list it.

Maybe look at why it's taking so long to double-list, or look into a multi-channel product like Sixbit.

ETA: Seems like I spend most of my time with book selling checking sold prices and finding that Thriftbooks or some other huge book dump has sold the book for $3.80 free shipping. I've got piles I'm listing elsewhere.

[keziak]

Do you use a listing program of some sort to do that? A friend who was always a much larger seller  had some sort of program like that. 

I feel like if I had a clone this issue would not be so troublesome to me. But I don't make enough to pay one.

[lastade*]

I list on several sites.  I do not do duplicate listings.  For me it is easier to keep everything separate.  I keep my inventory separated into areas categorized by site.  I sell craft books on Ebay, Ecrater and Pangobooks.  I stopped selling them on Amazon last year because I did not make much on them there.  I started selling on Pangobooks last year instead.  

[keziak]

I also categorize books and by far most of them go to Amazon, the esoteric, technical, fiction and some other categories. My problem in listing single books on ebay is the unpredicability of what sells. For example, I got jaundiced on double listing cookbooks only to sell them quickly on AZ. Then I sold one on Ebay. Most DVDs and blu-rays sell better on Amazon...unless they sell here first. I can't think of a single category which is more likely to sell here than on Amazon. It's all just so much guesswork. 

[dbfolks166mt]

     When it comes to just books I seldom list on eBay and other sites at the same time. I tend to utilize eBay for the more collectable type books and utilize other sites/venues for more common books or those that eBay has prohibitions against such as the Dr. Seuss books and some of the more gray area books and movies such as Gone With the Wind, some of Twain's books, To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men.......... With regards to other items there area LOT of things I simply will not list on eBay due to their ever expanding list of restricted and prohibited items as well as the VERO program. 

     When I do cross list items I always list them in an auction format on eBay and it takes some monitoring effort to ensure that I don't get caught in a dual sale situation. Once I have a bid on the eBay listing I end the item on the other sites which don't have penalties for doing so. It takes very little effort to dual list items across multiple sites, mostly copy and paste, but it does take some extra effort to monitor which is why I seldom do it. 

[lux.ra_14]

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@keziak wrote:

I can't think of a single category which is more likely to sell here than on Amazon.

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Antiquarian and collectible books.

[lux.ra_14]

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@dbfolks166mt wrote:

It takes very little effort to dual list items across multiple sites, mostly copy and paste, but it does take some extra effort to monitor which is why I seldom do it. 

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A lot less effort in the smartphone era. I list books on multiple sites and delete from the extra venues within minutes when an order comes in on eBay. Needless to say, it can be done from anywhere at any hour of the day.