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March 21, 2006 3:41 PM

Are there any services or software to make it easier to sell a bunch of stuff on Amazon Marketplace?

We have a few hundred books, CDs, DVDs, etc in our personal collection we are looking to sell. We probably want to use Amazon Marketplace. Is there anything to help make it a little faster to enter all of the listings for large personal sized sales? I know there are programs like Monsoon for real businesses and there is a Pro service on Amazon for $40/month that is supposed to make things a little easier, but neither seem appropriate or make much sense financially for the size of our listings. What I would really like is something where we could quickly enter UPC/ISBN numbers and conditions and some prices. Right now there are multiple click-throughs for each listing that can get annoying with a few hundred items

posted by Tallguy to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

I wish I had gone with the Pro service, if it's what I'm thinking of. I had around 300 CDs to sell, and it turned out that the $40 a month (now only $20 a month for your first two months) was less than I was losing on the per-sale $.99 fee Amazon took in addition to their commission. I think I sold at least 60 CDs in the first month, so the Pro thing would have saved me $20. Not a huge amount of money, but $20 is $20.
posted by goatdog at 4:17 PM on March 21, 2006

I haven't used it myself, but Pro sellers can enter items into an Excel file offline, and then upload them to the Inventory Loader. The Guidelines for Managing Large Inventories page has some other tips.

I work at Amazon, but not with Marketplace. This is just based on my experience as a seller.
posted by mbrubeck at 9:22 PM on March 21, 2006