What I've Learned Selling Books on EBAY

[@9liveslisa]

My dad had a friend who bought storage units and he made a lot of money on books. Some of the books he didn't even understand, but he got big bucks for them. Text books sold well too. Happy book selling!

[@bd2864]

What books did he not understand?

[@hourlyflipper]

I love, love, LOVE selling books! I also love when you all sell the Italian Cookbooks! You go!!!

[@lauriehargrove4873]

THIS was super helpful. I like these kind of LEARNING with a specific subject in mind.

[@DB-ws2lp]

I also started selling books after seeing Lonnie sell them. Bought a manga lot and have been doing very well. Turning 2 dollars to 50 adds up fast. Thanks Lonnie and Candice

[@ginamathis1]

Check your area for Friends of the Library sales-I sell lots of books too and get a lot of my inventory from this annual sale. Large public libraries also sometimes sell year around.

[@nance8885]

Glad you mentioned this. I have been to our local library sales but there are so many books in a very crowded area & until this video, I've not known which type of book to buy to sell. I've bought books for myself to read & then donated them back to the library to resell or to a local non-profit charity.

[@WhatTheFlipDidIBuy]

Damn! You’re exposing my secret favorite category! So many people sell books for next to nothing, lol. I think I’m sitting between 15-20x profit on book ms the year and it’s my top category as an everything seller.

[@reaganxxliquid8erxx973]

Me too. I came up on a bulk lot of "books" at a buck each and my average per item is $46.44. top categories as well...

[@WhatTheFlipDidIBuy]

@@reaganxxliquid8erxx973 My best flips came from 2 places. 1st, a Storage Unit I bought had a TON of books. They were all WW2-themed war books as well as books document the color and designs of planes from that era as well. All of it went for AMAZING money. Think my best was a single book that went for nearly $500 called My Logbook by Gunther Rall. Then I also picked up a large stack of Vinyl-catalog books by the author Joel Whitburn for like $0.25 each at a garage sale and they went for $30-$50 a pop.

[@TJtheVJ]

As a full-time Bookseller for over 12 years, I've been trying to tell Lonnie that nothing has a better roi than books. The fact they are super easy to list store and ship makes it even better.

[@susanegley4149]

Should you store books standing up or laying down?

[@oliviaw5132]

Books are fun and easy sellers! I love finding old classics. Also easy to ship for the most part 😊

[@Los655]

This was one of your best vids. Love the VLOGs but. love getting behind the scenes sometimes!!!

[@IAMsuchristine]

These end of the year recaps have been great. When I started dabbling in reselling a couple years ago I was watching one of Mike's (GSP) videos and he was talking about how to price a Black's Law Dictionary. I literally found one at Goodwill a week later. Paid $2.99 sold I think for $125 in one day. I saw Mike a little while later in a store and thanked him for the advice, he's super nice. I'm not sure what they sell for now but certain editions are something to look out for. They're big heavy books you can't miss them. Books that I sell for $50 and up I usually upgrade to ground shipping to have insurance. Media mail has good rates but it makes me nervous sometimes lol.

[@angelakmoses]

Great video!!!! Thanks Lonnie! Happy New Year!

[@FollowDWPatt]

Amazing value. Learned a lot. Thanks Lonnie. You rock sir. Saving this one to my private ebay playlist so I can go back to re-watch again.

[@traceylugg9707]

This was extremely helpful! Thank you!

[@donin99]

Really like this style of video. Thanks for the info Lonnie

[@psg1975]

Thanks for sharing, Lonnie. Great video! Happy New Year to you, Candice and Family. Cheers, Julien

[@michaelking550]

Your right about hunting books. Payed .10 for one, sold it for $25..

[@HappyOne14]

Thank you Lonnie. You have given me motivation to “lot up” some of the many $3 books in my someday pile in 2025. Happy New Year

[@findsanddeals]

I love selling books. And it's very interesting to me to see what books you find in your area as compared to what I find in mine. Thanks for the video!

[@nance8885]

This video is very helpful to us. We've made a good return on the books we've bought and sold, but we do not always know which type of book to buy. This video will help us know what type to look for to buy. The books we made the most return on are sealed sets, but unfortunately, we've only found a few of them so far.

[@PamelaReeves]

Great information! Thanks 🙏🏽 for sharing! I love selling books 📚 although, in the past, I’ve focused on leather bound decorative books.

[@jessebento1726]

I often will just pass right by the books knowing the other resellers and pickers just pass by. Check the other popular items that people look at then come back and rake

[@RosanneWard-g7k]

Merry Christmas and happy new year! 🎉❤

[@MaggieRobinsonmaggierecruits]

This motivates me to sell more books in 2025! Thank you Mr. Lonnie!🎉

[@brianhenry2385]

Great Video, enjoyed the format you used to show the info on book selling. It would be great to see this type of content using some of your other categories, when when you get a chance. Happy holidays! 😉

[@Scoofnie]

I will say you are definitely leaving easy money on the table if you aren't selling books on Amazon. The FBA program lets you expand your business because they pack, ship & deal with returns. I know its not glamorous to sell a book for $18, but it really adds over a month period when you've sold 100 of them plus the occasional $100+ textbook or whatever.

[@malicesmom]

I just got 80 Agatha Christie hardcovers off of FB Marketplace that I am going to sell on ebay. I was wondering how to charge the buyer for multiple shipping labels and now I know. Thanks for all of the info! (You guys were my inspiration to take the plunge on such a massive set of heavy books.)

[@mccflo99]

Would love to see how you grade, list, and package/ship the books properly.

[@shedflips]

@@mccflo99 unless they are in rough condition I almost always use a condition of “good”. Occasionally I’ll use very good or like new if they are especially nice copies. I show packing books often on our other channel which I’ll link below

[@shedflips]

@@mccflo99 youtube.com/@imgonnapackit?si=IYXiPtGgtQf8URk5

[@susanegley4149]

Excellent video!🎉

[@LittleArtisticNook]

This is so very helpful because I have loads of books plus most are signed by the authors because I know the authors personally. I'm looking to sell on my eBay but also on Pangobooks. Thanks for sharing this info!

[@lorebitz]

Great video! I’ve also seen an increase in book sales recently. Keep an eye out for RPG and tabletop miniature gaming books also. They can do very well.

[@danielhildebrand6553]

I just bought 6 totes of rpg books. So excited to start listing them

[@lorebitz]

@ SCORE!

[@monicarichards1473]

Thanks guys for the video and the last one. I also forgot all the high price things that you sold Over the year so it was a good refresher for my shopping memory and books and other media believe it or not are still a thing and coming back slowly into fashion and neccesity as people wanna have all their favorite musics, movies and books. just in case, Will it be put on my Tin Foil Kuffie hat in case something like the internet vanishes. One can still have access to information knowledge of how to do things without it.😊

[@ctg8563]

Do books of some value but are in bad shape do they still sell or are people not interested in bad shape books? Ive seen some with mold or other issues

[@Panzer-xi5uj]

Cheers Lonnie 😊 some great book sales 👍

[@kirstenscholz4482]

Yaaaajjjjjj... Happy New Year 😃💥🎆🎉

[@LeMongolist]

Good evening Lonnie, how many "All's Italian" and Bibles were sold in 2024 ? Happy New Year’s Eve to your family and thank you for the videos:)

[@tomdodge5198]

No mention of Italiana? Disappointing. I want to hear the origin story.

[@samchapjoe2001]

Great video !

[@TheDebbiesDooDads]

I love selling books. Asking a favor. I sent you a message on eBay, which you probably didn’t see, but can you include in your photos for the Al Italiania book, the table of contents? I’m checking for a friend that is interested in this, but she’s looking for some cookie recipies and I couldn’t tell from your pictures if that is included in the book. Thanks for all you do.

[@OriginalNethead]

28:04 Was that Clementine Hunter THAT Clementine hunter? If so no wonder it went nuts. I couldn't do book sets myself, medical weight limits if I didn't want surgery for a fourth time, but I always looked for books too old to have a bar code. Library used book sales attract bar code scanners, always despised them subsituting machinery for learning, and lots of times they'd leave money on the table. I didn't!

[@geoffduke1763]

When I first started reselling I fell for the FBA book selling videos. Now I know you can make money from it but you need a lot of books to cover the FBA fee, I worked out 400+ and those needed to be speciality books not the pulp million plus produced for pennies. I couldn't source enough to make it viable so I like you just have a select amount in my ebay store. Individual books are vintage/speciality/religious and any mass produced I bundle, ie game of thrones, harry potter bundles.

[@michaelblatherwick5324]

Strongly advise people go slowly into book dealing. 1) some people do this for their career including brick and mortar. It takes decades to be an expert… 2) … which is why just scanning and looking at comps is not going to be a win every time. You will miss out on nuances and history that will explain why that book you “thought was good” doesn’t sell. 3) if you are still prone to shipping charge “oopsies” and get people constantly opening issues because of poorly packed items, you need to take a look in the mirror and see if you can put in the time and effort to improve your shipping process. Condition matters. Big. Time. 4) Books can be a goldmine, but the true wealth comes from long term WORK and RESEARCH.

[@shedflips]

All true. It takes work and experience and failures along the way for sure. And then it’s still tough.

[@AtlasNostalgia]

Every time I'm in front of books I have no clue what would sell, I found some old books similar to the La Italiana but nothing they haven't been sold yet. Maybe they are not that interesting? I have no idea, thanks for your tips will help next time I'm out there looking for a book to sell.

[@genxthings]

We sell books but we are picky. Our best book to date was purchased at .50 sold for $2500 to a professor at Harvard. Nothing even remotely close to that though ever again.

[@PdiddytTube]

no italiana?? haha yeah books are my main niche of my ebay business ... low cost .. good return ... low ship (usually)

[@GerryPicker]

Thanks for sharing!

[@thriftraider]

This year, I've learned that bird books can do really well, especially old ones. So stay away from them Lonnie and Candace! Just kidding of course! Love these learning videos, estate sales are awesome for finding these types of books.

[@shedflips]

That’s my favorite thing about books is that we just keep on adding more and more book types to the ol database.

[@paulabair1221]

good solid content. well done.

[@DReardon-hq2vb]

Do you charge shipping or is that included in your price? This was very informative. Thank you. I wish more people would post book videos like this.

[@shedflips]

Thank you, I do charge shipping on all books

[@2ndHandMediaMan]

This is why I made my youtube channel: to explain how to sell $100K of physical media.

[@raia9]

Whose paying the postage on the bulk book sales? as you have to take fees and maybe postage out of the sale price of course.

[@EFCasual]

Selous scouts is about Rhodesia, a controversial topic. Controversial topics are a great hint that a book may be valuable. Alternative history, medicine, terrorism, ethnic greivance... people buy it online but not in person.

[@belinday.hughesbusiness]

I know those regional books, especially the last one.

[@NurseontheRun149]

I'm very new at this and iwn about 1000 books including all my nursing text books I need to let them go as I'm moving into my Daughters home. May I ask how you can sell books without owing more money than they pay for a book when so many sell a book for 2.60 and free shipping? Please help me understand-I'm an 85 yr old and nit tech savvy!

[@shedflips]

You simply can’t compete with the huge booksellers on lower value books. Most books are not worth selling.

[@NurseontheRun149]

@@shedflipsthank you

[@bfidler288]

Wish I lived in a region with a unique cuisine. Indiana sucks, no one's is buying cookbooks on how to make ridiculously large tenderloin sandwiches...

[@dougk7075]

😂😂

[@susanegley4149]

I don't know about buying a cookbook, but I sure would like to be invited for lunch! 😂❤

[@ordiekelleher2641]

Hus love and intesting!😊

[@thewayidoit8895]

Posting videos with all the storms headed east? Hope ya'll are safe!

[@shedflips]

Yep, thanks hopefully we are safe. Pretty nasty band of them coming through soon.

[@Broke_operator]

I think you need some whatnot sales lol

[@morrisc4624]

It would be handy to know what didn't sell as well.

[@rhysxj]

Holy crap i dont think I’ve heard Jimmy swaggart’s name come up since the 90’s.

[@shedflips]

See his books and bibles all the time around here

[@susanegley4149]

That's a blessing.

[@ColsonsCollectibles]

Hi, I've been watching y'all a long time. I sell a lot of books too. The reason I'm commenting is because I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and I'd like to share a bit of education. We believe in the Bible and read the Bible. The book you sold is not our "Mormon Bible". Please do not call it that. The book you sold is what we call our "Triple Combination" and are our other scriptures. This isn't the place for religious discussion, just want to clarify in case you were not aware.

[@shedflips]

No offense intended. Thanks

[@susanegley4149]

Thank you for educating us! ❤

[@magicwandplatinum5804]

Small ticket. Rather list and sell electronics

[@NickelNationCoinsMore]

👍

[@wendyn.619]

❤

[@CheerfulWyvernDragon-ie7nj]

I have a question I've been watching you for year why are you still working in your shed ?

[@bd2864]

Where should he be working?

[@CheerfulWyvernDragon-ie7nj]

@bd2864 I just figured with all the money you're made would have bought a bigger house or shed by now like every one else but if works for you.

[@susanegley4149]

Some sellers work to maintain a certain size, and not grow. We can't always spread out. He did mention a storage unit. We sell out of our home and can't have a big shed like their's. We mostly try to post one for each that we sell.

[@CheerfulWyvernDragon-ie7nj]

@susanegley4149 WOW you guys are so awesome and respectful and responsive and thank you so much for answering my question have a wonderful day

[@emanuelarossi5525]

first?

[@shedflips]

Yes!!

[@bd2864]

Congrats