A Sale on Amazon.com
Just as I am occupied almost entirely by this blog and totally forgot that I still have a couple of items listed on Amazon.com market place, an email came in last night, informing me that an USB flash drive that I listed a couple of months ago was sold for $20.95.
I bought the item, a ACP-EP 2GB Forum flash drive, from Buy.com last year during their $20 off $50 Google Checkout promotion. At that time, I paid $32 for the product but it also came with a $32 mail-in rebate. So it’s essentially free and the $20.95 is my net profit. What interests me is that right now at Buy.com, you can buy a 2-pack Kingston 2GB DataTraveler USB Flash Drive [Affiliate link] for $29.95 after a $9 main-in rebate with free shipping. That works out a better deal than buying one from me at $20.95 plus $7.49 shipping. Well, that’s not for me to worry anyway.
Since last June when I first started to sell stuff on Amazon.com, I have sold a total of 45 items so far with a revenue of $1,622. Among them
- 14 books
- 8 flash drives
- 6 wireless routers and 3 wireless antennas
- 4 software packages
and other items in single quantity such as DVD burner, hard drive enclosure, printer, cables, and webcams etc. All the electronic items were bought new at an affordable price with promotions and mail-in rebates, thus, I really didn’t pay much with them. Whether most of them were purchased for the only purpose of selling them later to make a few bucks, I did grabbed a couple of good deals myself. For example, my best deals so far are
- Canon PC160 Personal Copier, $5 after mail-in rebate (list price on Amazon.com $119.64)
- Epson R340 Stylus photo printer, $9.99 after mail-in rebate (list price on Amazon.com $104.99)
and both rebates have been received. Unlike many people, I am not afraid of mail-in rebate at all. Why hate it if I can get a good product at a good price?
If you are interested in selling stuff on Amazon, here are some reasons why I choose Amazon.com over eBay.
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I’ve sold on Amazon’s Marketplace once…and it was a pleasant experience, but I think it’s worthwhile to check eBay for the current auction prices and bid counts for items similar to the one you’re selling…sometimes the you’ll get quite a bit more for your item if there are a lot of people bidding on them. I also recommend Half.com, which is owned by eBay; however, it is generally for media sales/purchases (books, music, video games, etc)…in other words, no electronics.
I have considered eBay once but didn’t really pursue the idea. The reason is that I don’t have a lot of stuff to sell and the auction style of eBay really requires some time in managing the listing. As you said, if the product is hot and there are many bidders, then there’s a good chance to make a decent profit. For me, I just want it to be simple and Amazon gives me exactly that. If I have a lot of stuff to sell, then eBay will be a better choice. Besides, the commission Amazon.com charges is quite high.