QUESTION: I have about 500 National Geographic magazines. Is there an easy way to list these books on Amazon?
ANSWER: I am not sure why, but Amazon doesn’t allow people to list magazines for sale on the site.
Pro-Merchants can add all sorts of things to Amazon’s catalog by creating a detail page. But items in these categories are prohibited:
Magazines
Apparel
Beauty
Cell Phones & Plans
Food
Health & Personal Care
Jewelry
This is the sort of thing that probably would have worked OK with zShops, but we know what happened there. I can understand why Amazon wouldn’t want Pro-Merchants to list food items or cosmetics, but I have no idea what the rationale is for banning magazines.
I’m not sure whether National Geographics is something that would work on eBay or not. Perhaps you could sell a collection at auction, but I’m not sure if you could recover Store fees by listing them at fixed prices.
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Hi, magazines on eBay is something I keep an eye on. There is at least one Seller that specializes on nothing but National Geographic and has a store focused on that! Not sure what the alias is off-top-of-head, but shouldn’t be too hard to discover. It looks like these items are starting to have some value, and specific issues can be higher priced. Good Luck!
Here are three eBay stores that specialize in National Geographic:
Global History and Geography Depot
Doug’s Vintage National Geographics
Geographic Supply
Best wishes!
I tried to auction National Geographic on Ebay and couldn’t get a bid that would pay for the shipping. Amazon would have been better, but the price would now be .01 because everyone has a collection. I wound up throwing them in the garbage. Good luck with yours.