posted on March 26, 2005 08:06:58 AM
Any idea about how half is doing these days. I have a lot of books that I would like to put on there...hate to put them on ebay and pay and not sell.
posted on March 26, 2005 08:16:25 AM
I listed perhaps 130 books on Half when it first started up and would sell perhaps one a week. Then Half threatened to close down, and for some reason buyers left. I've got 5 or 6 books still on; the rest I removed and sold on Ebay or elsewhere. It's not working for me. Someone else here may be having good luck with it, though.
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posted on March 26, 2005 09:03:21 AM
I posted 2 college books a couple weeks ago and they both sold within a week. I guess it all depends on what you have and price it at.
posted on March 26, 2005 09:14:27 AM
I switched from half.com to Amazon when half threatened to close down several years ago, and haven't regretted it. Amazon is where people go when they want a book, and your listing will show up even if they think they are looking for a new book. I sell way more books now on Amazon than ebay as well.
posted on March 26, 2005 09:30:02 AM
The only problem I have with Amazon is they charge .99 plus comission and some of these books are not high sellers so don't want to go in the red on my sales.
posted on March 26, 2005 11:23:33 AM
A year ago, a good portion of my online sales were from half.com - Today, it is perhaps 2% of my sales. I started to move away from half when they said they were going to close last July. There was a last minute delay until October, but I decided that since I started the process of moving away from half, I would continue. I decided to go with the pro merchant account at Amazon, and have not regretted it. One of the reasons I did not go to Amazon before was the fee to sell, but the way I figure it, I only have to sell 1 item a day basically to break even on the cost of the selling fee. I sell a lot more than that, and I have noticed that the prices tend to be higher on amazon than half (the selling price) - I still do some listing and sales on half, but I don't think it is going to come back. While the announcements it was closing down may have not reached the buyers, I think a lot of sellers simply moved on from half, lowering the quality of goods, and the buyers moved on too. Half was a great idea, ebay really screwed it up big time!
posted on March 26, 2005 11:27:26 AM
more people know AMZN,how many have heard of half.com?
But that 15% fee AMZN takes on marketplace can eat up your profit.
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