Amazon gets Marketplace music sales into gear for the holidays
Since we clobber Amazon so frequently here for mucking up our businesses, it's only right to point out when things go well. Here's an encouraging message I received from Frank Klin, whose Amazon shop is Fabulous-Plethora. Thanks for writing, Frank!Just wanted to share with you something that Amazon is doing right. In the past week I am suddenly realizing sales in an area where I never had any before.
I sell a lot of CDs on Amazon. At the same time I have over 1000 record albums that I have been using GEMM.com to liquidate. I usually sell a couple of titles there a month. For awhile, when I was listing them on GEMM I would go ahead and list them on Amazon in my Z-shop. Never had any sales. When Amazon announced earlier this year that you could create listing for Vinyl in the Marketplace I was excited. Still no sales because Amazon made it difficult to find LP listings.
That has all changed. Suddenly I am getting these record sales on Amazon, 4 in the past week to be exact. I wondered what was happening and have been happy to discover that now when you search for a specific title or artist in the music category it brings up all formats in your search including LP and cassette.
Hooray! Thank you Amazon for the additional sales.
posted by Steve Weber at 11/21/2006
4 Comments:
Hey Steve,
Thanks for posting the info I sent you. The LP sales are going briskly, more than I ever sold on GEMM. Have discovered one drawback. Had to do one refund as the customer did not realize it was vinyl they had purchased. I hope it doesn't become a problem.
It's so great to discover all the work I've been doing to add vinyl to the Amazon Marketplace is finally paying off in sales. Thanks for all the work you do with this blog. It has helped my business tremendously by keeping me informed.
frank
How do you package vinyl? There a so vulnerable. When I see what the USPS does to my sturdy books, I am very nervous about sending out records. There probably are cardboard mailers, but is there a more reasonably priced solution?
I was able to find some "heavy duty" ones by Googling LP mailers.
You can try:
http://www.sleevetown.com/lp-mailer.shtml
If you buy in bulk you can get a price reduction.
Robert
www.collectingvinylrecords.com
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