December 03, 2006

Q&A: Can I sell my National Geographic magazines on Amazon?

QUESTION: I have about 500 National Geographic magazines. Is there an easy way to list these books on Amazon?

ANSWER:
I am not sure why, but Amazon doesn't allow people to list magazines for sale on the site.

Pro-Merchants can add all sorts of things to Amazon's catalog by creating a detail page. But items in these categories are prohibited:

Magazines
Apparel
Beauty
Cell Phones & Plans
Food
Health & Personal Care
Jewelry

This is the sort of thing that probably would have worked OK with zShops, but we know what happened there. I can understand why Amazon wouldn't want Pro-Merchants to list food items or cosmetics, but I have no idea what the rationale is for banning magazines.

I'm not sure whether National Geographics is something that would work on eBay or not. Perhaps you could sell a collection at auction, but I'm not sure if you could recover Store fees by listing them at fixed prices.

3 Comments:

Anonymous BriteDay Books said...

Hi, magazines on eBay is something I keep an eye on. There is at least one Seller that specializes on nothing but National Geographic and has a store focused on that! Not sure what the alias is off-top-of-head, but shouldn't be too hard to discover. It looks like these items are starting to have some value, and specific issues can be higher priced. Good Luck!

12/04/2006  
Anonymous annteeke said...

Here are three eBay stores that specialize in National Geographic:

Global History and Geography Depot
Doug’s Vintage National Geographics
Geographic Supply

Best wishes!

12/04/2006  
Blogger steve said...

I tried to auction National Geographic on Ebay and couldn't get a bid that would pay for the shipping. Amazon would have been better, but the price would now be .01 because everyone has a collection. I wound up throwing them in the garbage. Good luck with yours.

12/05/2006  

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