Re: selling from your website

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

Marty, I too have had great results with PayPal. They provide the code for 
the free shopping buttons, offering you an online widget for putting in the 
name and price of the item. If there is a sale they notify me by email. 
Paypal is free for the book customer to use but as a seller I pay a small 
commission on each sale. There's no membership fee or monthly charge. People 
use Paypal so they don't have to give their credit card number to an unknown 
seller.

If you are selling books with ISBN's, you can also try the Amazon 
Marketplace ("I have one to sell") section. I started selling there when I 
found myself stuck with some books with bent covers and slight scuffs --  
mostly these were damaged by my taking them around to events. I describe the 
damage carefully in the listings. Now I sell mint condition books as well as 
scuffed ones and get a good response. Amazon handles the customer's payment 
and subtracts their fees from what you receive. They give a shipping 
allowance, too. I am also in the publisher program, Amazon Advantage.

Amazon Marketplace is better than eBay because there is no listing fee. You 
pay the commission only if the book sells. I used to use eBay but I began to 
get nuisance emails from fake customers and also I thought that the prices 
dropped for their garden books.

Betty Mackey
Publisher, B. B. Mackey Books
www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Stewart" <amy@amystewart.com>

> Marty--PayPal works great for me. People can pay with their credit card
> without signing up for PayPal if they prefer.  PayPal takes a cut of each
> transaction, but it's otherwise free--I created this page myself with 
> almost
> no HTML skills:

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