How to price used books for sale on Amazon, eBay, Half.com

When you are dealing with general stock worth modest amounts – and there are several copies listed online under $15 – there is no need to spend much time mulling pricing strategies. Supply and demand rules. If you price your copy much higher than competing offers, odds are you’ll wait a long time for a sale.

If you think the market price is fair, match the lowest price but don’t go under. The only thing lowballing accomplishes is leaving money on the table.

But what if there are no used copies listed on Amazon? In this case it’s worth your time to do some research to see what the prices are outside Amazon. Search the title on AddALL, at www.addall.com, which indexes all the major book listing sites. A similar site on which to research prices is FetchBook.Info, at www.FetchBook.info. Another favorite with online book-sellers but with somewhat slow performance is BookFinder.com, at www.BookFinder.com.

If your search turns up several listings for your title, you can get a good idea of its value by throwing out the top and bottom prices and averaging the rest. Price your copy at the top of the range.

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  1. Posted November 3, 2009 at 1:34 am | Permalink

    You can check http://www.bookase.com to compare price of the books

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