Selling Books on Amazon.co.uk

RobbingBandit

I bought a book last year in a charity shop for College. It is called God and Greek Philosophy and seems to be a very rare and valuable book. There is one copy on Amazon.co.uk for near £650 and a copy on Amazon.com for $1900. Has anyone sold a book on Amazon before and if so can they give me the ins and outs on how to do so.

BengaLover

You can sign up for and sell on Amazon by registering a credit card on file with them, however, when it comes to getting your money after sales, the only way they give it is by lodging it into a bank account.
A UK one.:(

Judgement Day

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I bought a book last year in a charity shop for College. It is called God and Greek Philosophy and seems to be a very rare and valuable book. There is one copy on Amazon.co.uk for near £650 and a copy on Amazon.com for $1900. Has anyone sold a book on Amazon before and if so can they give me the ins and outs on how to do so.

Can't find it - any chance of more details...author, year of publication, hardback/softback, condition etc. In any case I wouldn't recommend Amazon for selling a potentially rare book.

RobbingBandit

Judgement Day wrote: »

Can't find it - any chance of more details...author, year of publication, hardback/softback, condition etc. In any case I wouldn't recommend Amazon for selling a potentially rare book.

Damn I don't have a credit card so that is out the window.
Link to the book below,it was published in 1994 and is a paperback. There is a slight fold in the rear cover no marks on any pages though,it is also boring as hell.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Greek-Philosophy-Studies-Theology/dp/0415113059

mike65

BengaLover wrote: »

You can sign up for and sell on Amazon by registering a credit card on file with them, however, when it comes to getting your money after sales, the only way they give it is by lodging it into a bank account.
A UK one.:(

As I feared, was thinking about selling via amazon but that's that.

Judgement Day

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Damn I don't have a credit card so that is out the window.
Link to the book below,it was published in 1994 and is a paperback. There is a slight fold in the rear cover no marks on any pages though,it is also boring as hell.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Greek-Philosophy-Studies-Theology/dp/0415113059

Here is, I think, the same title in hardback: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=6858145854&searchurl=kn%3DGod%2Band%2BGreek%2BPhilosophy%253A%2BStudies%2Bin%2Bthe%2BEarly%2BHistory%2Bof%2BNatural%2BTheology%26sts%3Dt%26x%3D76%26y%3D14 and it's only priced at £ 117.36.

Abebooks.com is a better source for realistic prices and even there some dealers have wildly OTT valuations/prices on their stock! I suspect that your copy will prove at the low end of the price range and, in fact, you may end up keeping it as an heirloom. You could do worse than try some of the secondhand book dealers in Dublin - Cathach Books in Duke Street http://www.rarebooks.ie/ and Stokes Books in the Market Arcade off Sth.Great Georges Street http://www.georgesstreetarcade.ie/stokes-books/index.php would be two that come to mind. Sorry that I can't be more upbeat.

BengaLover

Check inside for a series of numbers, if there is a string of numbers going from one to ten, ie 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 its a first edition, which will make it more valuable. Is the one you saw on Amazon a first ed? Maybe that was why it was priced thus.
If yours isnt a first or very early edition then it wont be worth very much.

RobbingBandit

Don't really know what the deal with it is I bought it for €1 thinking it would help me with the philosophy module I am doing in Classics instead it just bored me to anger more than anything else. I searched it on Google to see if there as a synopsis on it and I came across the links for Amazon. Last year it was going for $60 and has just kept increasing in value on there.

I will check out the two bookshops in town to see if they can give me a value on it. I would not really expect €500 or anything crazy,I would like it to go to someone who will use it.

A Dub in Glasgo

Give it back to the charity shop?

or send it over to me and I will list it on Amazon and give you 60%