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Thanks!

I’ve watched this video before, it was good to review it. Hope all is well with you and your family.

Thank you so much! Really appreciate the video!

Also worth noting books with there slip covers in tact can get 20 - 40 % more. Always go for them.

What is your opinion on mass paperbacks, I tend to avoid them?

Goodwill shopping ask themselves this “ would I buy this at this price “ or “ if I wouldn’t purchase it would anyone else want to?” Try putting more on the shelves and less items online,you got the stuff for absolutely nothing and with an actual business if tiu don’t price to move you lose sales and don’t retain customers

Awesome find

AI priced a coin for me is that ok $$$

Glad you had a break and glad you are back.

Excellent video! So much great info. Thank you so much.

How do you print your shipping labels?

I found the Essential Witgenstein. I like yours better. When death is on the line

"Being random is potato."❤❤❤😂😂😂

Yes, make a Trappist Ale video plus books! 🥳

My issue is that I am just starting and even paying to promote my books, I am not even showing up in the search results. What is the secret?

this was so helpful! thank you

Shipping costs always scare me from bundling, it's just so expensive, and competing with the big boys with free shipping on eBay is hard.

you didn't mention Pirate ship ??

This was FANTASTIC. I'm keeping this in my toolbox and I'm sure I'll refer to it many times moving forward. Thank you!

What's the backstory on the Joyce Meyer audio books? Nice sale! Audio books are over looked category....

Is your profit the sale price - cost - fees - packaging cost? What packaging do you use for your single book sales, box or padded envelope?

If you want a good laugh and totally inaccurate description of your listing just use ebay's ai tool. Never has there been a more ridiculous example of so called progress. Just have a read of some of the listings the next time your on ebay. Its like wtf its as if the ai is treating the reader like a child or reading a poem. It definitely puts potential buyers off, especially when there is no obvious input from the seller and accurate real world description. After you've been subjected to an ai "description" your none the wiser to the items condition or any actual truthful issues or faults it might have. Basically it's a tool for the seller to hide behind incase of any issues after the sale. Highly un recommended.

Stock photos, so impersonal. I like to buy things from people who put in the efforts and deserve it. Even if it's $1 more, support a small business.

Rules for media mail are outdated and need to be revised for modern day ecommerce.

Hi Shane! My season is re-booting! My husband is recovering from a huge illness and all I have been able to do is help him get better. I am ready to ramp up again. I have a lot of your videos to catch up on because I have been out of it for literally months and months. I need to look back on your vids to see if you liked Amazon or eBay better. Or maybe there is another thing you like better? Well I have a lot of study to do!

I have a question, and I hope you can help. I just downloaded the FBA Scanner and was scanning books that belonged to my mom. The book has several prices on Amazon. 17.00 new, 10.00 good and 3.00 used. Which price am i supposed to be looking at? I also found it on eBay for 6.00 sold. I have a book sale I'm going to tomorrow and I'm hoping to find something sellable. Thanks for any help. Tara

3:30 Memphis has the BEST BBQ EVER! I haven't been there in the longest, but when I go, I get BBQ. There was a little place coming out of Memphis going back towards Florence on the right. This was years ago so it's probably no longer there. It was a tiny little place, but the BBQ....to die for.

The audiobooks are UNMATCHED! Jeff Hayes dies unique voices for EVERY character. Please do yourself a favor and listen for a reread ❤

Where are you finding your magazines?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on books, at 74 years young (female )gonna give reselling a go, higher priced books for me though….

I get burnout quite often. Usually when I go a while without a sale. Or if there are some bills that desperately need paying and I can't sell anything to save my life. I love book sourcing even though I have THOUSANDS of books in my death pile. My bread and butter sales are about $7.99 which doesn't add up to much. I sold a $30 book a couple days ago, so that helped me get perked up a bit. Cookbooks are my bread and butter, but I make more money on college yearbooks. There are so many genres of books that are fun to work with and books are my passion. I'm going through a burnout right now, but hoping it will go away soon. I think a little excursion to Belgium would help me tremendously. LOL I actually would like to go to The Dismals in Phil Campbell, but I'm just grateful that I can afford to just stay home. But burnouts are usual, but they are temporary, thankfully. Hang in there!

I feel my heart sink just a bit when my book order arrives in a poly mailer.

ohmygod - I love your t-shirt so much I could just DIE!!!

There are so many sellers that say first edition but don't show the copyright page in their photos.

Cool T + shirt! ❤ 🤔🤔 I'm not understanding where to find items like mine that have sold. Plenty of items currently listed 🤔

Great video as always! One way we avoid burnout is to "keep it human". While out sourcing books, we take the time to chat with others, maybe other booksellers, or an elderly person who needs help getting a book from the top shelf, or a Mom with young children who needs help bringing a box out to her car, or a thrift shop clerk who looks frazzled. We try to always be kind and remember that, yes, it is a job for us, but that we aren't machines grabbing and selling books - we are people doing a mostly fun, very cool job where we get to meet many nice people. And when really stressed, we watch one of Shane's videos!! :)

I can feel a touch of burnout sometimes when I'm sourcing and people are getting aggressive or there are lots of other book buyers or prices are high or the sellers checked ebay for pricing every single item. It knocks the wind out of my sails and makes it no fun. My solution has been to note which estate sale companies I dislike and I avoid those categorically. I also try to go to estate sales that are in less desirable parts of town as there is often less buyer pressure there and still treasures to be found. At garage sales, I ask if they have books for sale and sometimes, pretty rarely, they bring out books that were inside, or they let me in to look at books that they did not have outside at their sale.

I love these sales too but the books i get from the library are smothered in stickers, it's a bummer. It can take hour after hour to try to remove them. Congrats on your haul :)

Everyone that works at my post office are no good lazy grouchy good for nothing pricks that get pissed off any time you ask the smallest question or for them to do anything that they're there to do

You video says go to the "Seller Hub" but your video skips right over how to get there as it isn't on the drop down menu you showed in the video?

can you ship clothing in a priority shoebox? can someone help me pls

Thank you

It is really hard to MANAGE the day but really easy to FILL the day. You are right when you say that tele-work did that. I've been reselling full-time for a year (brick and mortar store) but on eBay for 6 months seriously and consistently. Finding stuff is so fun, putting your knowledge to work... listing requires more effort in my opinion. Getting to the burn out part, my death pile is huge and makes me anxious, sales not going fast (near 500 items in the store), rent and other bills coming in. I'm burnt out but I can't take a break. It's the hustle. Can't stan Dolly Parton's 9-to-5 anymore lol

I get extremely frustrated when Ebay throttles my sales to zero for couple days, after using the 50% refund on a fraudulent return. Ebay is like the worst pimp in the world, with billboards telling johns that it's open season on whores.

Welcome back, Shane! :) I always seem to lose a bit of enthusiasm for selling in the summer, when sales slow down. I just remind myself that sales will pick up again in the fall, as they always do. But, I think setting selling boundaries is important, as you suggested. It's hard though, for instance, when an offer comes in at midnight, just to ignore it! I'm curious - did Belgium have any thrift stores?

Finding inventory and listing is the worse.

How were the waffles in Belgium?

I could listen to this guy ramble for hours.

Shane, I'm kind of at the opposite end of the financial spectrum - I'm selling part-time on eBay to supplement my "bare existence" retirement - and let me tell you, lately I've experienced seller burn out from a different perspective. I've been on foot for much of the past year, because my vehicle's transmission went out, and I couldn't afford $2,000-$3,000 to get it replaced. (Funny side story: in desperation, I finally contacted my sister and brother-in-law, as they repair their own vehicles. They agreed to drive 3-1/2 hours to stay a few days with me and repair my transmission instead of replacing it. While they were here, their transmission went out!) Anyway, with me living in a tiny town, being on foot, and the nearest thrift stores 30-45 min away in any direction, I've been forced to list items I'd previously gotten from clean-out jobs. So it's been mostly "all work and no sourcing fun" for me. I didn't realize how stressful it could be. A friend finally took me to a few yard sales in another town, so I could "get out of Dodge." Lol.

If I had burnout in Belgium, I would find a local used book store and just browse, knowing it cost a lot to ship back to the USA, looking at all of the books, and just enjoy them.