As most of you are probably/hopefully aware, I sell books through a
number of websites on the interwebs including my own. Most of my sales and therefore income, still
comes from ebay which obviously due to the $$$ is where I focus considerable
attention. There are many different
theories and methods of selling things on ebay and of course we all have our
own theories as to which of these is the best way of achieving maximum sales.
Ebay allows sellers considerable information re how often items
are viewed and also how many people are ‘watching’ each item that is listed. Which brings me to this book. This is the second time I have listed this
particular title and as of yet, it hasn’t sold.
This in itself is not that unusual as… yes, as hard as it to believe…
not all of the books I list on ebay, or elsewhere, sell… at least not at first. What is of interest is the amount of people
that have looked at this particular book each time I have listed it. For me to consider that there is an interest
in a book on ebay, anything above 10 views means that there is some sort of interest. Because I sell most of my items as ‘buy it
now’ there are often not that many views or watchers on the more popular items as
anyone seriously interested in a book tends to ‘buy it now’. Both times I have listed this book I have had
around 100 views of the item and only a few watchers. So why hasn’t it sold?
There is obviously some sort of interest in it as a lot of
people are looking at it. I’ve double
checked the price and my copy of this book is the only copy on ebay Australia
at the moment, so the price is… well, it’s the price… (I have lowered the price
on the second listing). This is one of
those weird ebay mysteries that I don’t have an answer for. I don’t even have a theory on this one. Any ideas?
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