Adding It Up – September

September’s additional income was a bit smaller than the previous month, but it was about average overall considering I didn’t really sell much on eBay. I made £45.22 after expenses, the majority of which came from Amazon.

Sep
6
£45.22


Amazon Selling Account
4
£35.44


eBay
2
£9.78

The Amazon sales were from second hand books. The largest share of which was a big hardback book about Star Wars figures. It sold so quickly that now I fear that I priced it too low in the first place, but at £20+ after postage and fees that’s not bad. The book was the first and only book so far to sell from a batch of books my parents gave me to sell in order to clear out some space in their house. Non fiction books are the best sellers on Amazon when it comes to re-selling books. Fiction doesn’t really sell second-hand unless it’s really new, and even then the prices are pretty low. As for the titles of the non fiction books, they were a completely random assortment. There was an old text book on hydrology, I suspect this was needed for a Phd course or something, two books about fairy tales and folklore (these went to two different customers), and the Star Wars action figures guide.

The eBay sales were varied too. My wife was throwing some clothes out, so naturally I couldn’t help but have a look at what she’d piled up as ‘unwanted’. There were various items, but the only thing that looked like it was worth listing was a Ted Baker blouse. It was in great condition and is a branded name, so I listed it and it sold quite quickly. There wasn’t much profit in it, but it was worth doing. especially as it would have been thrown away.

With the new Grand Theft Auto game getting a lot of attention and topping sales charts, I realised that I still had my copy of the previous version, and that I was never likely to play it again. So I listed it as Buy It Now and it sold in a day or two, making me £7.79 profit after fees and postage. I’m not going to count the original price I paid for it as that would have been about £35, and seeing as it was bought years ago and provided hours of entertainment I don’t think the original price can be taken into account when selling old household items. I’ve since bought the new version, and the £7+ I got for the old version effectively helped to subsidise the purchase, which makes great economic sense as far as I’m concerned.

Right, I’m off to car-jack a sports car and get in a high-speed chase across Los Santos…