Selling Tools for Mining Earth's Biggest Bookstore - Amazon

[mandy]

Reviews of Amazon selling tools AMan, Monsoon, Seller Engine, and ScoutPal

On Amazon.com, as on eBay, the principle holds that the more desirable items you can get online at any one time, the greater your income will be. The key is to automate processes like formatting sales descriptions, adding images, and printing shipping labels. Since most of the items listed on Amazon have identifiers like UPC or ASIN numbers, it would save time if you could gather those numbers automatically, too.

The products listed below all make use of Amazon Web Services, a technology platform that lets developers create products that tie into the Amazon.com marketplace. The first three help you sell more efficiently on Amazon; the fourth is an innovative tool that lets you do on-the-spot research on used books and other products.

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m10/abu0153/s02

[iron_chick]

I just started using the Art of Books. 

Love it.    Just in the nick of time, too, since I also just sold my first already sold book!    I *thought* I'd been doing a good job of keeping both my Amazon and Alibris inventories current.  Obviously, I was not.  Even more scary, during a fun filled self imposed inventory audit, I found a half a dozen more titles I'd already sold that were also still listed.

As a bonus, since AOB manages Biblio sales as well, I signed up with them, too!   

And last but not least . . . the price is right.  Free for up to $500 in sales a month.  1% for $501 to $10000.  .5% after that.  heh  . . . I wish. 

Beth

[bargainbloodhound]

Art of Books reminds me a lot of Fillz, but the  rates are lower for new users.

Art of books: http://www.theartofbooks.com/  (Amazon, Abe, Alibris, Half.com, Biblio, and eBay)

I use Fillz http://www.fillz.com (Amazon, Abe, Alibris, Half.com, Biblio, Valore, TextBookX, Gemm.com, Chrislands, and eBay) .

Another widely used inventory management program not mentioned in that article is Homebase http://www.abebooks.com/docs/homebase/main.shtml

Even more scary, during a fun filled self imposed inventory audit, I found a half a dozen more titles I'd already sold that were also still listed.

I had that problem a few years ago when I switched from eBay's buggy SA Pro to Marketworks.  I think there were about 20 sold items that SA Pro never subtracted from inventory.  :blinkie:

[iron_chick]

I actually have had great customer service from both fillz and AOB, but with the price difference for a newbie, it's a no brainer for me!

I think I have the inventory straight . . . knock on wood . . . but I am going to make one last pass through this evening before listing any more books!

[iron_chick]

I just had my first biblio sale.

OK, so it took . . . almost three months.    But it takes neither effort nor $$ to keep my books listed there, so why not?

[bargainbloodhound]

[bargainbloodhound]

I haven't even read the first post in this thread but there's probably oodles of useful information in the thread 

Fillz/AOB which way to go?
http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=113483&tstart=0

...and if there's nothing useful in that thread, try Amazon's 3rd Party Software & Services Forum for info on other 3rd party tools: http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=26&start=0

[iron_chick]

I'm still happy as a pig in shit :-) with AOB.  Great customer service.    The issues I've had have all been eBay related - go figure - but the response time is great and they've solved my problems.

[bargainbloodhound]

The issues I've had have all been eBay related - go figure

That's strange.  The issues I've had with Fillz have all been with eBay/Half too!

[iron_chick]

Oops.  I forgot.  I had a half dot com problem, too.