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December 11th, 2008

I am selling books on eBay

books on ebay

This afternoon I made myself a cartoonchurch eBay account so that I can start to think about selling these canvasses. However, I decided to start off with something a bit smaller and more manageable, so I’m now selling some signed copies of my books. My brand new shiny eBay account is here: cartoonchurch (0).

Now, I don’t really intend to make a long term thing of selling my books on eBay, as (a) I’d like to support local bookshops and (b) I’m too lazy to keep going to the post office. However, I do have a reasonable amount of stock that I need to shift, so I may well add some more if it works and people buy them.

I’d wanted to sell the books with a ‘buy it now’, but apparently I need to have more of a feedback score than my current ’0′ before I’m allowed to be let loose on the ‘buy it now’ button. So the books are being sold as an auction, starting at 99p and hopefully ending up not too far from the £5.99 mark.

I might add more books, so please don’t bid huge amounts (not that you were planning to, I know) for a rare signed copy, because If I sell more they will become rather less rare. I will sign them saying anything you want (within reason) – so an ideal opportunity to pick up a unique(ish) Christmas present.

As an aside: I do have a personal eBay account, so the whole business is not entirely new to me. But my score on my personal account is (2) meaning that I am still really a novice. I’ll write about the not-terribly-but-a-little-bit-exciting story of my (2) purchases another day.

So… anyone like a book?

Update (Saturday midday): Have added another 5 ‘Dave Walker Guide to the Church’ books. These are a 3 day listing again, so will end midday on Tuesday if my calculations are correct.

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10 Responses to “I am selling books on eBay”


  1. Dave says:

    I’ve got a bid! The excitement is unbearable.

  2. Anne says:

    Are you shipping overseas? (Sorry, but I had to ask…)

  3. Dave says:

    Anne,

    Yes – I will ship overseas. I’ll add the overseas postage rates into the items tomorrow, but I think it will be about £1.75 for Europe, £2.50 worldwide.

    Sorry – being new to this I didn’t have it all sorted out in advance as I should have done.

  4. Anne says:

    Are you setting any of them up as “Buy it Now?” If so, I think I’ll go ahead and sleep now and order in the morning when I will have had my coffee. Zzzzz.

  5. Dave says:

    Anne,

    I would much rather have them as ‘buy it now’, but that isn’t currently an option for me as it is a new account. As soon as I get feedback of 5 (which won’t happen for a number of days) I can start to sell some via ‘buy it now’.

    I’ve just checked my stock room* and found that I have a quite a lot of copies of all my various books, except the latest one, My Pew. So it could be that I sell more of the various other things. It will depend upon demand.

    *The stock room is also the internet, drawing, and canvas tripping-over room.

  6. Sarah B says:

    I know seven young people who bizarrely have your book signed by Bishop Alan (it was part their confirmation gift from me) – would that be worth more or less!!

  7. Anne says:

    I have now had my coffee and am going to head over and place a bid or two.

  8. Dave says:

    Update: Have now added another 5 ‘Dave Walker Guide the Church’ books.

  9. Linda says:

    Using eBay will open up a whole new audience for your work. Don’t feel you are letting down local booksellers – you can continue to support them too.

  10. Mike Borg says:

    It seems you sold them all :)

    Mike,