Amazon.co.uk Marketplace

Advantages: Canon Powershot SD1100 IS
Disadvantages: Canon Powershot SD1100 IS

"A friend of mine had one of the original versions of the PowerShot, which he recently upgraded to the 750. I have the SD1100 now and LOVE it. All of the PowerShot cameras have amazing ease of use. They can shoot quickly and without much attention by the user and they still take great quality pictures. I am also an owner of the RebelXT, and while I don't believe anything will beat my SLR, the PowerShot comes as close as anything I've seen yet. Lately ... Read review

Within 5minutes of opening the package we had heard our babies heart beat. This is without doubt the one you shoud buy if you want any chance of hearing your baby. We had previously purchased a sumer prenatal listener and heard nothing when we tried after this product.

Advantages: one of the top 2 market places to sell you products
Disadvantages: email correspondence / questions from buyers gives them access to you private email address

In my opinion one of the shortcomings of Amazon Marketplace is that when a customer asks a question an email is sent to your personal email address. You reply, then the potential customer / scam has your contact details and can then put a scam in place to `mirror' Amazon Marketplace correspondence. Top five tips - from my point of view - first time sellers... * Be careful when replying to email questions as you are giving direct access info to an ...
...momentum of your first time sale. Pause / think. Does anything look odd in correspondence? / Read Amazon info as it will be quoted back to your face. * Esure you check / make sure that the money transaction is in your account on the Amazon site before posting. Take a screen shot of account / funds if in doubt should you have disagreement with Amazon later. * Only deal with a sale to UK mainland. Never overseas (and especially never never NIGERIA ... Read review

Advantages: It's the best
Disadvantages: None

Let me just get this out of the way....I'm a huge fan of Amazon. There is no doubt that what they do is the best. I've been shopping with Amazon for about 9 years ever since I realised that their price were simply better than everyone elses but not that their range was simply enormous allmost to the point that I believe that if its not on Amazon then its simply not available in any significant numbers. Some years back Amazon introduced the marketplace ...
...actively inviting competition. You can almost garantee that price on the marketplace will undercut Amazon prices by sizable margin even when you consider the extra postage costs. I started out buying on the marketplace several years ago (and I bought a lot) and I must say that I was pleased with every aspect of it. Amazon handle the transaction and notify the seller that when the sale has been completed. This is where you have to be clever and read ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to list
Disadvantages: Beware postage charge to buyer

...will have probably stumbled onto Amazon.co.uk at some point - you can find just about anything and everything available for sale here (the site has come a long way since the early days when it specialised in books and other media products). Whilst the company itself sell an untold number of items, you can also buy from private sellers & other businesses through what is known as 'Amazon marketplace'. I myself have sold numerous items through the marketplace ...
...the 'got one to sell?' button, give your item a rating with regards to condition, add a description (not compulsory) & a price & bingo! your item is up for sale! Shipping costs are usually fixed, dependant on the category the item is in. A CD will be one price, a book another, a kitchen item another and so on. The shipping fee is something to consider before listing your item for sale. I have sold numerous books that have actually cost me more to ... Read review