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[kokoek9]

hi I sell mostly books and i am new to selling books. Question what do you put in for a discription for books you know nothing about. Tanks

Mike

[kokoek9]

Thanks for your suggestion I will make changes. The books you mention are books I already had and want to get rid of. The danielle steel I got before I new better.

[oaklandmaryland]

besides the jacket description I have found that sellers on Amazon often have great descriptions so check  it out too

[kokoek9]

okj never thought of that

[onefootflipper1]

Stop listing right now and go back and price check all of your books, sort price plus shipping lowest first.  Every single book of yours I checked is available under $4 shipped by charity booksellers. You will never get 11.99 for those. 

Then you will learn the horrible truth that 99 percent of books can't even be shipped out at a profit by a normal seller. 

You cannot price guess books, and run of the mill books sell almost exclusively on price. If the basic book isn't valuable on it own, then things like condition or dust jacket or edition are not going to matter either.

Price a common book $1 too high and it will never sell, and when you check it a year from now it will be $2 too high as the price is constantly eroding on common books.

[reallynicestamps]

Most of what the customer needs is covered by the Item Specifics.

You can fill the Item Specifics from the copyright page at the front of the book.
The ISBN number may also give you a Description of the book, but be careful because some companies will use the same ISBN for different editions and  your customer maybe looking for a particular cover or format.

You can scan your book and its cover  more easily than photographing it in my opinion.

I listed a book yesterday with all that information, and my Description read "Ich spreche keine Deutsch" because the book is in German and I can't answer any questions about the contents.
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