How To Sell Books On EBay - My Full Process

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[@josh_graff]

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[@1whitecottagelife770]

I bought a whole library at an estate sale for $400 because I liked the kind of books that the guy had. I listed maybe 150 only so far and I made my money back and over $900 profit. Still have a lot of books left to list

[@josh_graff]

That sounds like a lot of books!

[@1whitecottagelife770]

@@josh_graff it is quite a lot of books, I first filled up my Honda CR-V , then went home and picked up a Dodge pro master city van and drove back and filled it up to the top too. Unloading all the books was hard, carrying them inside the house and up the stairs...

[@stablechaos5433]

@@1whitecottagelife770I bet it was hard, but you did what you had to do to make it work. Selling books can be hard work. It’s definitely worth it if you can get a nice volume going.

[@quiltedbrownie]

I always watch to the end! This was so informative - thx a ton, Josh, for your generosity 🤩

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@gothkittenlife]

Great short and sweet comprehensive tutorial! Thank you I’m glad I found your channel and am now subscribed .

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching! New videos come out 2 times a week.

[@GimmeJustaMinute]

This is such helpful information… thank you for taking the time to make the video of your entire process! I’ve just been wanting to get rid of some quality books I own & are still “brand new” (basically) so just watching how you go about it & the tools/resources you use has been major in giving me the confidence & encouragement to go forward! And I absolutely adore your sweet boy giving the closing remarks (he may want a paid gig from now on hahaha!)

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching! Good luck selling all your books!

[@socalogp7296]

Great vid Josh! What a process and clearly you've done this more than a few times. lol I'm more than a bit OCD so I always preview my listings first but it definitely takes up more time. Love the longer video too! ✌

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching. Previewing your listing is definitely a good idea.

[@theresapetrik1995]

Thank you for your basic overview. What a cutie at the end.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much!

[@ouidabrady4261]

Great video! You gave me so much good information! Thank you so much! This is the video that I was needing to see! ❤. Your little one is so cute!!!❤ Thanks again!!!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching. New videos are coming out twice a week.

[@GayleBeck-xp8zb]

Thanks for sharing your easy to follow process!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@tammygrooms5120]

Made it to the end. Great info and the cutie at the end 🥰. Thanks!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@annmcdonough8268]

Thanks for the helpful information!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@robinraymor8059]

I did make it to the end. Very helpful info. Thanks

[@josh_graff]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@VintageBaseballCardPacks]

Made it to the end! Thanks for the tips.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@alicemurphy8695]

Very informative & helpful.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@TheSunRiseKid]

Made it to the end of the video and subscribed to your channel! Great content! What a cutie pie at the end!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@TheSunRiseKid]

@@josh_graff 👍😊

[@PodunkPicker]

Very informative video. Found it very interesting your process.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@xlightknightx]

I made it to the end of the video. Thanks for showing us your process.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@melisaverch4652]

You are a great teacher

[@josh_graff]

Thanks! That was my previous profession.

[@ginacarter9581]

Made it! Thank You

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@bumblebee8158]

Yep! Made it to the adorable little "helper" parr of the video! Have a great day! 😎

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@herbeertstewart9032]

Great video i don't sale on amazon so this is very helpful.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@JPaulPhD]

Made it through nice video thak you for the tips and help.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching! 2 new videos coming out each week.

[@lisajordan2082]

Thank you!!!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@PodunkPicker]

I purchased some of the Jiro Pack and have been happy with the quality of the bubble mailers.

[@Find.list.ship66]

I ordered some too. There are not the same quality as I normally use. You get what you pay for I guess😂

[@josh_graff]

Yes I have been very happy with them.

[@Beardkingpicker]

Great video and system

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@sandsbeck]

Well-done video. I appreciate you talking through your systems. If you can share more about your scoutly decision parameters where you separate amazon ebay, that would be great.

[@josh_graff]

I need to definitely make a video on it soon. Check out Mike the used book guy. I use parameters very similar to his. Although his merchant fulfilled parameters are more like my eBay parameters.

[@denniscremus8941]

Great video. New subscriber.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@mr-vet]

I like your sorting method. I’ve been selling on Amazon and eBay since 2018 (sell on Mercari and have sold on whatnot as well). I started out as just a book seller on Amazon. There is so much competition on Amazon, I haven’t listed anything in over a year, de-listed everything under $8 (plus shipping) and cancelled my monthly seller account and just pay the extra fee per book. I still get some sells on Amazon. The past year, I’ve been having good luck lotting up books by author or genre and selling them on eBay. I source most of my books at the 4 local thrift shops in my area (there were 5, but the Habitat ReStore closed-the rent was too damn high, literally; used to volunteer there before the pandemic). Paperbacks are, typically, 50 cents each, hardcover $1, but a couple of the stores often run sales or mark down items that have been on the shelf for awhile. One of the thrift shop charges a dollar for PBs and $2 for hardcover-don’t usually pick up anything at that one.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching! I love my habitat restore. It’s hands down the best thrift store in my town. The just built a new building 2 years ago, so hopefully they won’t meet the same fate yours did.

[@tonymullins8437]

Have a like and a sub, great work man!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@patbowman2588]

Thank you ... very informative ...cute child

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@garybrown3955]

Made it!!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@MyElGatoFeo]

watched til the end. Thanks, I'll rewatch a few times to get the sequence down. It looks like you spent quite a bit of money to get STARTED! and then to keep going. 1) shopping for books? $$$ 2) storage of Books? /sorting of books?$$$ 3) shipping of books?$$ 3a) equipment needed to fulfill orders?$$$ 4) Tax-keeping of sales?$$ 5) profit made? 😎😎$$$

[@josh_graff]

I started with $10 and just reinvested the profits to buy more each time. Some time I’ll make a video about how I got started.

[@colleentennant702]

Made it to the end

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@diamondhsales]

Made it to the end.

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching.

[@beverlyhartman2761]

Really appreciate your explanation. I think I got it we’ll see lol.🎉

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching in you have any questions just let me know.

[@jrgesantsmendez5314]

I learned a lot from this video, thank you. I have a quick question, do you still list the books if they dont have any sold history but there is a couple of listings?

[@josh_graff]

It depends on the price. I’ll also do a quick google search to see what it is listed for elsewhere.

[@jrgesantsmendez5314]

@@josh_graff Thank you.

[@Eyeball-Industries]

informative video... thanks. We sell a lot of Soviet books (kids, history, literature, travel, art books, cookbooks textbooks and technical manuals as well as Soviet English books) because they are in abundance here in Ukraine. Always interesting to go through them when listing... cheers!

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching! I don’t find many Soviet books here, but do find one from time to time.

[@Eyeball-Industries]

​ @josh_graff Well, you sell what you can source I guess... there are a lot of ex-Soviets around the world, so they do sell. A lot of esoteric topics, and they're priced right for flipping. I want to ask your thoughts on something. It takes me about 15 minutes to list to ebay and etsy a book. Most of that time is drafting a description, the method being, photography, reverse image search, find Russian language description texts, google translate that, put instructions into chat gpt with all item specifics, create a simple html description (saved for future duplicate ease of listing), ebay list first with ALL items specifics I can, then etsy, then list. As you can see, its some work, but I feel I can charge higher prices, and I do see the descriptions on etsy do show up on google for potential customers. Yet I see sellers just have crappy headline and put the headine in the description. What are your thoughts on this process for book selling? Here's an example; www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196373681878 Congrats too on 12,000, I feel like I'm rolling a rock uphill keeping it at 2000 listings!

[@cmills263]

In case anyone is wondering the aseller tool link is scoutly

[@josh_graff]

Yep second link in the description. Thanks for watching!

[@user-xt5uw6oy7r]

i hear the boss in the background,...thanks for video.

[@josh_graff]

Haha. Thanks for watching!

[@ericgarner2987]

I made it. North Carolina

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@kennethyoung9032]

Yes it crashes a lot when I use custom sku

[@josh_graff]

For about a week my app had an update where the custom sku was in a completely different location and it had quit crashing. I’m hopeful that it will come back soon. I’m seeing updates to the app every few days right now.

[@adcarteriv]

Awesome video thanks for sharing! #papergold

[@josh_graff]

#papergold

[@GregGeej]

Yo Lester Crest you lookin good

[@josh_graff]

😂

[@istockgrizz]

Hey Josh, how do you approach shipping books on eBay?

[@josh_graff]

Typically I ship them media mail in padded envelopes. I talk about all of my shipping supplies later in the video.

[@EFCasual]

Wrapping in paper helps.

[@user-nf7gr2cn1p]

Like the video 🎉

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@sunshine_moon_21]

Storing your books, you stated that you put them in boxes with skus,by number, how do you know from your listing which box to go to?

[@josh_graff]

On eBay their is a field called custom SKU. I put the box number in that field. Only you can see that number not the buyer.

[@HeatherW-mq3nt]

Thank you, I use that but for when I post the item. Thank you 🎉

[@scorpionsen4302]

I've never had the search with picture button come up next to the search bar. Also eBay says you can share a photo to eBay app but doesn't give me that option either 😢

[@josh_graff]

Hmm that’s strange. I would try deleting your app and downloading a fresh copy of it. Maybe your phone needs updated as well. That’s what I would try.

[@scorpionsen4302]

@@josh_graff yeah I have and just did again. It just shows up the barcode scanner and the voice search. eBay and phone are up to date Android 10. I just use Google lens but just using the app would be so time saving

[@istockgrizz]

I also noticed that when you scanned the books on eBay, you’re searching the listed book prices. Not the sold/completed items. Is there a reason for that?

[@josh_graff]

When I’m listing books I’m more worried about the lowest currently listed price. I do also check the sold listings. Most books I list on eBay have no solds in the last 90 days.

[@istockgrizz]

Gotcha! Okay that makes sense, as obviously that would be a price that you would need to beat in order to sell your current listing.

[@MagicMerlin688]

Does the library sell discounted?

[@josh_graff]

Some libraries sell books and some don’t.

[@suzannenickerson4283]

Do you have returns on your books? Cute helper 😊

[@josh_graff]

Thanks. Yes I offer free returns. The total return rate for my store is usually just under 2%.

[@TheSpicejenmom]

How do you decide shipping costs?

[@josh_graff]

I use calculated media mail shipping for books. I estimate the weight of the book when making the listing.

[@ivad8232]

You said you use bubble mailers for media mail here in the comments. My post office has refused to accept them as packaging for media mail no matter how thin they are. Have you ever come across this situation?

[@josh_graff]

Never have. I do know they won’t accept bubble mailers for first class envelope. Maybe that is the confusion? What do they want you to use?

[@ivad8232]

​@@josh_graff Regular envelope or box and they were accepting the mail as media mail too. Thanks for the response, this issue confused me greatly.

[@josh_graff]

@@ivad8232 that’s one of the strangest things I have ever heard from a post office clerk.

[@istockgrizz]

Scoutly?

[@josh_graff]

Yes that’s what I use. The second link in the description will take you to it.

[@EFCasual]

Book grade tips: Poor- broken binding, loose pages Acceptable- underlined, library marks Good- foxing, spots, worn cover Very Good- light wear, marks on endpaper

[@josh_graff]

eBay unfortunately won’t even let you select poor as a condition. I put all good and very good books as good condition. Then all that you would grade as acceptable/poor I list as acceptable.

[@EFCasual]

@josh_graff well I sell on Abe. Interesting to see what the ebay environment is like.

[@josh_graff]

@@EFCasual yea I really wish eBay had the poor condition. In general I still think it’s a good idea to grade books a level lower than they actually are.

[@blainemitchell]

Do you only sell books?

[@josh_graff]

No I sell lots of other things as well. Books however is my biggest category.

[@RonHelton]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@josh_graff]

Thanks for watching!

[@beeveedee9355]

So, you dont bother with putting anything in the Description section?

[@josh_graff]

Nope. Maybe 1 out of every 1000 I’ll put something in there.

[@KDWolfe.]

How do you make money in 7.00’book with shipping Sold items and lost money due to shipping 😢 Less tech savvy and new Seems the cost to ship was more than I made.. arrggg

[@josh_graff]

I do $7 plus shipping. If you do free shipping then $7 is to low to make any money.

[@user-wf7sz4wj7i]

So as you probably know, if you list at minimum $7.00 plus shipping you (you, me, whoever) are already screwed because literally 99% of books are for sale by others for ie “$4.50 plus free shipping”. Literally selling for less than what shipping actually costs!!! Not just one either but 3,4,5,6 listings at “4.50 free shipping”. Everyone is always going to buy the least expensive book. How do you compete with that. How do you ever sell a book for $7.00 or more plus shipping? It’s impossible. Those jerks ruin it for everyone else by undercutting so much (in order to gain a customer list for their other books on their website I assume) and literally most any and every book has those bs prices. I can’t compete with that. How are you selling any books at all or ever dealing with that crap? Seriously? if you have a way, please let me in on your secret because I can’t compete with those jerks and LOSE money by selling a book (with free shipping)for literally less than the price of shipping. Thanks for any advice or insight you can offer…

[@josh_graff]

I just don’t list books that others have listed that low.

[@stablechaos5433]

There is a market, even a small one, where I’ve sold plenty of books even on Amazon with shipping paid over other listings way cheaper than mine. Perhaps yours might have better listing descriptions and pictures whereas others don’t have anything. The customer will pay a little more to know exactly what they’re getting without the hassle of returns. Don’t short change yourself.

[@icndjgthtugxds]

I sell books and my minimum is $8 + shipping if it's worth less than I redonate

[@UncleAndysWaytoWealth-wr6mr]

#madeittotheendclub

[@josh_graff]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@UncleAndysWaytoWealth-wr6mr]

@@josh_graff Hey Josh, can I email you some reseller questions?

[@mr.alaska2232]

There's no money in selling crap books on eBay. I have 300 listings and my minimum price is $50 If a book aint worth $50, I don't even want it.

[@josh_graff]

Crap books pay my mortgage every month.

[@FindandFlip]

Thanks Josh. What do you do for super valuable books?

[@josh_graff]

Typically they get sold on EBay. I’ll wrap them in bubble wrap and place them in a box when I ship them out.

[@FindandFlip]

Thanks@@josh_graff