posted on April 17, 2002 01:50:23 PM new
Half.com has been totally quiet for me in sales for at least 3 weeks. I keep going to my account to see if I'm missing any sales but nope.
posted on April 17, 2002 03:08:13 PM new
Half.com reminds me a little of that old game called "Name That Tune". The object of that game is to guess the song in the least possible notes. On Half.com the sellers constantly lower their prices to have the most attractive price available. A seller lists 40 items and he has the best prices on all 40 items in their condition. He checks back in a week and only 30 are the best deal. He checks in another week and only 50% of his items are the best deal. The seller must cut his prices to get a shot at selling his items and the other sellers are doing the same thing. Definite supply and demand.
posted on April 18, 2002 07:28:32 PM new
I got a check in the mail today for a WHOLE 2.48...does that tell you anything? I am deleting my listings shortly. Wast of time. I refuse to sell my books for that cheap! Ii can get that much at yard sales!
posted on April 18, 2002 08:17:13 PM new
Before 9-11 I made a substantial living selling books on Half.com. For weeks after the Attacks on America I literally had no business, I mean not one single order. Things started to pickup And eventually got better but has not gone back to the pre 9-11 days. I now make just about enough to cover my mortgage payment with over 5197 books listed there for sale.
posted on April 19, 2002 05:50:11 AM new
My drop off has coincided with the "closer alignment" with ebay, although I can't figure out why. Half.com orders are down about two thirds.
posted on April 19, 2002 06:23:53 AM new
sales is down everywhere,some amzn sellers are dropping out too.
dont want to pay that 39.99 pro merchant fee if they cant sell 40 copies or more.
posted on April 19, 2002 08:10:05 AM new
Sales on half.com seem to be cyclical, with little bursts of activity at the end of the month when coupon promotions are about to expire.
I have listed there since it was independent, and of course did much better when ebay was not involved. However, even though there may be months that go by without my listing anything new, I have yet to miss getting enough sales to have the bi-monthly payments go through.
Lately I have placed a lot of my new listings at Amazon, the primary reason being their data base is much more complete than the one used by half. And I will soon go back over the items half claimed didn't exist and check them in the Amazon data base.
Bottom line is my half.com sales are slowly declining while my Amazon sales are increasing.
