Hi Guys,
I'm looking at selling a large collection of D&D 3.5 books on ebay and am wanting some advice on how to best package them. I'm not interested in setting up one by one sales, but I do think that putting them altogether would put up the net price too high and put off potential buyers with too much stuff they don't want.
I'm thinking my options are:
1.) Sell everything in one big bulk package.
2.) Sell things in maybe 2 or 3 packages, each with a "theme", but I get lost here.
Any suggestions/advice would be fantastic. I should note that the quality of the books is by and large "good" or "excellent", with a few"acceptable".
magical item compendium
spell compendium
rules compendium
DMG
DMG 2
PHB
PHB 2
ELHB
HBGB
MM 3.0
MM 3.5
MM 2
Unearthed Arcana
Book of Iron Might
Complete Adventurer
Complete Arcane
Complete Champion
Complete Divine
Complete Mage
Complete Warrior
Fields of Blood
Heroes of Battle
Heroes of Horror
city works
Stronghold BGB
dungeonscape
frostburn
Manual of the planes
sandstorn
stormwrack
wildscape
draconomicon
dragon magic
drow of the underdark
Weapons of Legacy
d&D for dummies
dragonlance campaign setting
WoW D20 Revised
Red hand of doom
shattered gates of slaughterguarde
the banewarrens
I don't know about selling them in bulk, but I can tell you right now you have a couple of there that I want as I have the majority of the others.
Besides, the shipping of that entire collect in in-bulk could be murder on S/H for some folks I imagine.
Same thoughts here. I have several of these books. The thought of postage for even 4-5 of them, unless I really wanted them all, is very off-putting.
Have you looked at Amazon to see what each is fetching second-hand? I think you'll find a lot worth selling individually.
Hi Guys,
I'm looking at selling a large collection of D&D 3.5 books on ebay and am wanting some advice on how to best package them. I'm not interested in setting up one by one sales, but I do think that putting them altogether would put up the net price too high and put off potential buyers with too much stuff they don't want.
I'm thinking my options are:
1.) Sell everything in one big bulk package.
2.) Sell things in maybe 2 or 3 packages, each with a "theme", but I get lost here.
Any suggestions/advice would be fantastic. I should note that the quality of the books is by and large "good" or "excellent", with a few"acceptable".
magical item compendium
spell compendium
rules compendium
DMG
DMG 2
PHB
PHB 2
ELHB
HBGB
MM 3.0
MM 3.5
MM 2
Unearthed Arcana
Book of Iron Might
Complete Adventurer
Complete Arcane
Complete Champion
Complete Divine
Complete Mage
Complete Warrior
Fields of Blood
Heroes of Battle
Heroes of Horror
city works
Stronghold BGB
dungeonscape
frostburn
Manual of the planes
sandstorn
stormwrack
wildscape
draconomicon
dragon magic
drow of the underdark
Weapons of Legacy
d&D for dummies
dragonlance campaign setting
WoW D20 Revised
Red hand of doom
shattered gates of slaughterguarde
the banewarrens
If someone has some of the books I don't think they will want to have the same book twice so I would sell them with the "buy now" option.
Maybe having the idea of getting a discount for buying more books will enforce people to do so.For rules books as an example
1 book = 20
2 books = 35
3 books = 45
or have all rules books for 15 or 20 as an example, and if you buy 3 books you get the 4th one free. That allows people to avoid duplicate books, and entice them to buy in bundles.
You may have to end up selling some thing individually anyway or you can just do a second bundle type sell depending on what you have left.
Same thoughts here. I have several of these books. The thought of postage for even 4-5 of them, unless I really wanted them all, is very off-putting.
Have you looked at Amazon to see what each is fetching second-hand? I think you'll find a lot worth selling individually.
I have shipped media mail before for very good rates, I sold 34 Exalted 1E books with a weight of about 40 pounds for only $45 in shipping I think.
I also have gone through both Amazon and Ebay and computed what if sold individually at the lowest price (at least as of March 29th 2011)Shipping NOT included and the totals are:
Ebay: $967, Amazon: $880, Min(Amazon,Ebay):$827
On April 19th Ebay is reducing their insertation fees AND their cut 9% on the first $100 instead of 9% on everything (if I'm reading it right).
See part of my problem/advantage is that I live a mile away from the US border in Canada. So, I can cross the border (but I have to walk across, not drive, or I get charged $15) and walk to the post office in Sumas (not too far) but I don't want to have to go 38 times (heck, even about 10 would be really pushing it.)