BelleResells

 Gotta squeeze as many sales I can! On Mercari, the Mythology book sold when i made an offer to a liker for $9 Free Shipping. The selling fee was 90 cents. The processing fee was .56 cents. Shipping was $2.89. My COG was .25 cents. My profit was $4.40. This book almost paid for all the books I sourced last week. (Kelsey) Mercari coming through again. I got a message asking to bundle some of the Nicholas Sparks books I listed. I always pick him up, he is so plentiful and I'll post his romance books in lots. He has a strong fan base. For $18 shipped I sold A Walk To Remember , The Longest Ride , and A Bend in the Road. The selling fee was $1.80. the processing fee was .82 cents. Shipping costs was $4.01. My COG was .75 cents. My profit $10.62! Woke up to a sale on Mercari for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter for $10 shipped. The selling fee was $1 and the processing fee was .59. My COG was .25 and I did invest .20 to have it listed on Etsy. Shipping costs was $2.89. My profit was $5.07 H...

 I really want to make every order stand out and show my deepest appreciation. I think my rose floral polymailers are super cute and make readers excited to see my books come in the mail. Now I want to add stickers and cute bookmarks. This is also a post about everything that goes into shipping my items. July is officially over and that marks the first chapter of Q3. These are the bookmarks I got! This was a pack of 60 for a total of $22.57. That's about 40 cents for each bookmark, I think that's totally worth it. Each order $15 and over will receive 1 bookmark.  I purchased 2 packs of stickers, each pack comes with 102 reading stickers. That's a total of 204 stickers. This cost me $21.63. That's a little over 10 cents per sticker. Every order will get 2 stickers.  Sometimes I get asked what polymailers I use. I get these 10 x 13 floral pattern polymailers in a pack of 100. Last time it cost me $23.69. That's about a quarter for each polymailer.  

 Is the Summer Slow down coming to a close?! I had a lot of sales this week compared to my previous weeks. On Mercari someone asked to bundle two vintage children's books - Tweety's Picnic and Little Red Riding Hoods Little Lamb. They sold for $10. The selling fee was $1. The processing fee was .59 cents. Shipping costs was $3.45. These were purchased a year ago, very stale inventory. I spent .25 cents for each so my COG would be .50 cents. My profit was: $4.46  Finally an order on Depop! My last order on depop was 17 days ago! This is a book I got for free and it's also stale inventory. (Just look at how i took the photo, I really miss taking it this way) All Over But the Shoutin sold for $6.44 free shipping. The Depop fee was .60 cents. The Paypal fee was .49 cents. Shipping costs was $2.89. My profit was: $2.46 Holy shit! This sold within an hour of listing. It's the collection of Fearstreet books I sold for $17 shipped. The selling fee is $1.70. The processing fee ...

 I added these to my inventory yesterday - they were all free. I saved $4 that i would've spent at the Hospice.  I'm itching to go sourcing again, but one of my personal rules is to list everything I sourced before I go out again to BUY more inventory. I don't believe in a death pile. If I haven't finished listing books that I payed for, then I allow myself to find free books. 9 new listings for Depop and Mercari!! Dragonwings, the golden mountain chronicles: Laurence Yep                               $4.99 When The Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka          $5.95 Free Shipping The Queen of Everything, Deb Caletti  $3.99 plus $3.50 s/h Home Wisdom, The Old Farmer's Almanac, A Commonsense Guide to Solving Everyday Problems $10.52 plus s/h The Fault in Our Stars, John Green  $6.10 or (3.89 plus $3.99 s/h) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn $5.95 Free Shipping The Secret ...

 What made my listing challenge so successful? It was challenging and rewarding. my next challenge is to list all my new inventory - mine and Anna's. But before I do that, I want to try to move as much stale inventory as possible. I'm going to RE-list 100 items in 2 days - so that's 50 a day. Starting today at 3 pm and ending on Wednesday night, so i'll give myself all day Tuesday, all day Wednesday and the rest of today to RE-list 100 items. This experiment will be interesting. I honestly wonder if any of these will sell within the week of listing them. The next listing challenge I found from a website called the100bookchallenge.com. There'll be more details on that in my next post! 21/50

 This was a really good challenge - I pushed myself to list more. I'm already thinking of another way to challenge myself - I might do a RE-listing challenge, that might prove interesting.  It took me 26 days to list 100 items from my death pile. These were books that have been sitting for months - one of my goals was to push as many books out. I also took my time - for example, yesterday I was really sick or some days I was only motivated to do one listing. I permitted myself to do that so I could get a general idea of my "normal" productivity levels.  I have very specific monetary goals to make my bookshop Hyla Brook Books my full time job. Ideally I want to be making 5 sales a day. I've been averaging 25-30 orders a month. I need to make 4x's that much. This just means I need to work 4x's harder. I'm just so glad I'm done!! I felt like this took me a long time, even if I accomplished it in under 30 days. I saw a challenge where you list 100 items in...