Amazon Marketplace

Advantages: A great place to sell goods
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...I'm sure many of you out there have spent a fair bit of your internet time browsing somewhere such as eBay for unnecessary products to spend your hard earned cash on. Well, here's an alternative that in my view at least, is better than eBay... I'm sure you're all aware of the concept of Amazon.co.uk and the service it provides, allowing you to buy any kind of electrical goods/DVD/CD amongst the greater selection of goods it now sells. But you can also sell things on Amazon, and buy material from third-parties rather than just through Amazon...that's where it's Marketplace comes in. When clicking on a product, take a DVD for example, you will be given the price, but also an option to buy "Used & New", which will take you to third party sellers which are not associated with Amazon, just merely members of the site. Anyone can sell...

carl.mcqueen 23.08.2009 · Read review
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Amazon.co.uk Marketplace

Advantages: Earns money for your unwanted items
Disadvantages: Postage costs

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is Amazon? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amazon.co.uk is a website where you purchase literally anything. Amazon.co.uk has been around in the UK since 1998 and it started off a website mainly for selling PC & Video Games, Books, DVD's and similar items, now it still stocks all those items but now have expanded its items to Health & Beauty, Clothes, Shoes, Electrical Equipment, you name it, Amazon probably has it. If I'm looking to purchase something I usually always check out Amazon, as they're prices are always competitive and I know I can rely on them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is Amazon Marketplace? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amazon.co.uk Marketplace is a section of Amazon.co.uk which provides a venue for you to buy and sell new, used, collectable and refurbished items, it is displayed in the same place where...

lilyellowfish 15.04.2008 (20.04.2008) · Read review
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Amazon.co.uk Marketplace

Advantages: Fantastic service, easy to use, fees are not too high in my opinion
Disadvantages: NA

...Amazon Marketplace, is, in my opinion, Amazon's answer to eBay. Amazon Marketplace,is convenience, and the more better choice for those who do not want to be charged the fee's you need to on eBay - trust me, that is why I completely avoided eBay. I am able to fully review Amazon Marketplace, as I have been on the opposite ends of the spectrum- that being both a buyer, and a seller. Buying with Amazon Marketplace Buying with Amazon Marketplace is as easy as 1,2,3. To begin your buying process, you need to be logged into your Amazon account.If you do not have one, signing up is easy, and free. To find an item for sale, you simply search for it, and in the item description, you will be told exactly how many there are for sale, the condition of the item being sold, and the price it is being sold for, as well as the person...

RyanC92 15.04.2008 · Read review
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Amazon Marketplace - a great way to declutter & make cash!

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

...Most of us with internet access 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 - just find the product you have to sell, click 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...

sambam000 07.06.2009 · Read review
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Win at selling on Amazon Marketplace

Advantages: Easy to register as a seller, easy process to follow
Disadvantages: Having to go to post office to post the books!

...I decided to sell a number of college text books via Amazon Marketplace and have been very successful. I have had less success selling fiction, I guess because these books are cheap to buy new anyway. It is very easy to register, all you need is an email address and then you simply fill in a standard questionnaire. Once this is done, all you need is the ISBN number from the back of the book to identify it. You will then be asked to state what condition the book is in (you are given guidance on this which is useful). Amazon will then give you an idea of what price you should ask for. You don't have to go for this price though and can choose your own. My advice would be to see how many other copies of the book are for sale, what condition they are in and at what price and go from there. (I have generally priced a couple of pounds...

AlisonW30 21.09.2003 · Read review
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A forest of bargains!

Advantages: Sell loads of used items and buy some new.
Disadvantages: Not every item makes a profit

...Five years ago I started university. I enrolled on a teacher training course, the hardest part was finding affordable books. Forget the snotty noses, loud children or lobbed pencils, a book under £20 was unheard of, well until I discovered Amazon Marketplace. I spent many days trawling my local bookshop and internet sites. I even stumbled across Ebay, the prices were good but I could never get the book I wanted. I was fairly new to internet shopping and was not keen on trying it. I returned home from uni one day with a long list of books I needed to buy. A mate of mine mentioned Amazon.co.uk so I signed up. I was unsure of the whole thing at first and buying online was a new concept. My Visa Electron card was useless on most sites but worked on Amazon so I bought several books. They arrived a few days later, well packaged and in...

leofluffy69 20.04.2008 · Read review
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Buy me and I'll be coming home with you tonight.

Advantages: Easy to use, easy to follow instructions, clears the clutter
Disadvantages: Some of the fee's are high

...During my student days, I spent many hours on Amazon buying all of the books I needed for my course because the prices that I got offered through this website were much cheaper than my local bookstore or any high street retailer. It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered all of these books and was debating whether to take them for recycling when I came across the Marketplace on the Amazon website. For those people who are not aware, Amazon.co.uk is one of the biggest online stores and they offer everything from books and DVDs to computer games and more recently jewellery and shoes. The marketplace aspect of this site is for people like you and I who have lots of unwanted books, computer games and DVDs who want to sell them on to other people and make a little of money back on our purchases. So, I found myself with piles...

littlexen 18.04.2008 · Read review
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  SalesPerson Wanted - No Experience Necessary

Advantages: Great rates possible for 2nd hand books; buyers make savings too
Disadvantages: Can be a little tricky to navigate the Seller site, buyers may be disadvantage by postage costs

...Amazon.co.uk/Marketplace ------------------------------------ Amazon.co.uk has been around in the UK since 1998, (hard to believe it is only 7 years!!) and is one of the world's biggest online stores. In my regular dealings with them, Amazon are a company which consistently offers good customer service and good value for money. It is perhaps lesser known that Amazon.co.uk also has a very active Market Place division, in which both individual members of the public, and even other organisations selling books can register as a trader and market their wares. Selling ---------- There are a number of ways in which you can sell via Amazon. Individual users (over the age of 18) can register and upload the items you want to sell and provide a fixed price for the item. Alternatively there is an auction option, similar to websites such...

helencbradshaw 01.02.2005 (29.05.2005) · Read review
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You can't beat it.

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 which must seem like commercial disaster as the company is 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...

Phoust 17.06.2009 · Read review
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GIVING THE JUNGLE A BAD NAME

Advantages: Finding the product you require from a wider market
Disadvantages: Damaged reputation for Amazon, can lead to disputes

...Surprisingly, looking at other reviews on the Amazon Marketplace there haven't been a lot of negative comments about it. I use the word 'surprising' because I have personally had a lack of confidence over buying from Amazon compared to the high standards we would normally expect from the company. The Amazon Marketplace is a way of allowing individuals or companies to sell products on their website whether new, used or refurbished at a fixed price which appear along side all their other products. I first stumbled across this scheme over a year ago when I went to make a purchase and was informed that I was not actually buying the item from Amazon, but I was buying it from another company as Amazon did not stock this item. Lots of questions kept floating around my head at the time such as 'What happens if it is faulty?' or 'What do I...

mdstone 16.04.2008 · Read review
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