Did you know you can sell used books on Amazon?.
Many of us think that you can only buy new products from Amazon, well, let me tell you that you can also buy used items, the most popular used items are books, and I am going to tell you how you can make money easily selling used books on Amazon.
There are a few really good apps you can download on your phone to scan used books, these apps are the most important tool for selling used books, they provide valuable information that you can use to decide if the book is profitable or not, these applications are available for Android and iPhone. Once you install the application, you can start scanning your own used books that you want to sell or visit your local Goodwill and Thrift stores.
You can also find profitable books at garage sales and yard sales, and the best part is that people usually sell them for very low prices, mainly because they already read them and lost interest, the application will tell you if the book is selling or if it is profitable to list on Amazon, as I mentioned before, the application is the most important tool make sure to download and install on your phone. As side note, another great way to make money is to Drive for Amazon Flex.
Here is a list of some of the best apps to scan books:
- Amazon Seller App
- FBAScan
- ScanPower
- Scoutify
- Profit Bandit by SellerEngine
Now that you have the application here is what you need to do to sell used books on Amazon:
Step #1.- Clean out your book collection, maybe you have some books that you have already read, or some old college textbooks.
Step #2.- Shop for used books, visit your local thrift stores, yard sales, garage sales, estate sales, Walmart, etc. You can also ask family and friends for books they no longer want.
Step #3.- Visit sell.amazon.com and sign up for Amazon FBA, this is “Fulfillment By Amazon”, so this essentially means you send your products to Amazon and they will store your inventory and ship for you when you’ve made a sale. Amazon FBA is an amazing platform because they do all the hard work for you, this means that you don’t need to worry about space to store your inventory, processing orders, shipping, labeling, delivering, returns. All you need to do is find profitable books and follow the next steps.
Step #4.- Scan books and set prices, use the Seller apps mentioned previously to help you price your items, there are thousands of books in the market and each books has its individual price, it could be overwhelming at first but the application will give you all the information you need to decide which price will work best for each book.
Step #5.- List your items and ship them to Amazon. Once you list your books on Amazon is time to ship them to their warehouse, their platform will give you all the information and instructions on how to do this, they will automatically choose the closest warehouse and print the labels for you, take them to your local post office or deliver them personally to the warehouse.
Once you have completed these steps is time to sit back and relax, all you need to do now is to be patient and wait for your books to start selling, Amazon will take care of the orders, one important thing to keep in mind is that if you want to be successful in this business, you need to be proactive and keep looking for more books, choose the best sellers and list them on Amazon, you will be notified of every sale you have made and the profit will continue to grow.
An advantage of selling books on Amazon, is that you can find used books pretty much anywhere, and most of the cases you can buy them cheap and sell them for a big profit.
