Sold my signed copy of To Kill a Mockingbird today! I think I had it listed for nearly a year. Really needed a boost of confidence this weekend so this will certainly do!
#sellingusedbooks #tokillamockingbird #harperlee #vintagebooksdepot
#SellingUsedBooks
So now I know that sorting 10 boxes of witchy books into subcategories and then book stall pricing all of them
With small breaks to prep, serve, & eat dinner, and receive an oxygen delivery
takes me 12 hours and makes me feel like I've been hit all over
but I did it
huzzah
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The 4th space will be mostly all adult non fiction
I just priced the first large crate of cookbooks
We had a few rows of cookbooks when we launched 2 yrs ago, but had to sacrifice them to more lucrative inventory
They sold well, but other subjects sold more units faster
Two amazing finds today thrifting. First, the complete A Series of Unfortunate Events (incl two box sets) all in immaculate condition. Then a leather bound book published in 1901 about President William McKinley and his assassination, also in immaculate condition. #SellingUsedBooks
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So, um, guess what
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Still can't get a definitive answer on the future of mass market paperbacks
Industry articles are conflicting
Our team has decided to assume the format will no longer be published outside of occasional special editions and adjust our buying and selling tactics accordingly
#SellingUsedBooks
Still haven't researched advertising for our mall spaces
Recently, a newly launched social media pages gained a few followers after I interacted w/a handful of group posts
... In the same manner that scored a handful of consulting contracts
Which I never dreamed possible
#SellingUsedBooks
with a #NeuroCovid brain injury since 2021
How is it that in 25 years of self employed book dealing, with doing my own accounting and taxes every year
I've never had cause to do an official Profit & Loss statement???
And my new brain has no effing clue how to organize this 😐
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We just got a vacate notice for our office space, which is stuffed floor to ceiling with books.
Right in the middle of opening a 3rd selling space.
We've been in our office for 5 years. The rent is affordable.
Gotta be out by Feb 28th
I am panicking
Bad bad bad bad bad
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Reporting to Book Sorting duty!
- 22 boxes of wholesale
- 10 large bags of premium
- 3 rotating feline supervisors
- 2 "don't talk to me" earbuds in
- 1 parking spot mostly out of neighbor camera sight
- 0 patience for any kind of face to face interaction
www.etsy.com/shop/Vintage...
Find rare, unusual, hard to find vintage books! #sellingusedbooks #reading #vintagebooks #ilovetoread #independentbookstore
Monster sized orange tabby cat standing on top of books in the back of a car
#SellingUsedBooks
with
#CatsOfBluesky
Sorting session from the back of the car
Relocated from the carport to the street under a fermenting ginkgo tree in hopes of evading neighbor detection
A squirrel has been nonstop screaming at my shift supervisor for 6 minutes now
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#DarkHumor
I sell used books to local stores
I often learn of author/"notable" deaths when stores text me
"Bring in every _____ book you have"
Today's text:
"Do NOT bring us any Dilbert books. Repeat:
🛑*NO*🛑DILBERT🛑"
Fascists ban books
Leftists respectfully reject them
#SellingUsedBooks
And just like that...
The space adjacent to our newly opened 2nd floor book stall became available & vacant
We have THREE spaces to work with now!
Approaching the size and scope of a Real Bookstore
#SellingUsedBooks
#TrueCrime
#Intersectionality
So I guess now I'm collecting used copies of The Sociopath Next Door
Bc the true crime people I hang out w/on YouTube want to start a book club
And having read it when I was a mental health worker,
I can confirm it's the perfect title to start with
#SellingUsedBooks
101 book stall items sold today 🤯🥹
An entire series that we have abundant back stock on
Some of our more valuable titles
I am gobsmacked
And so, so grateful for this opportunity and my bookselling partners who made this possible
#SellingUsedBooks
#ShareYourWins
59 stall units sold today!
All previous records broken
Both spaces and a wide variety of genres well represented
Including inventory we have an abundant backlog of
Though it will never generate wealth, I feel very lucky to have this as a career 🥹
#SellingUsedBooks
Processed buyback vendors / wholesale books today
The equivalent of 6 banker boxes of books out of my house
8 vendors, 9 boxes
Sore back, sore hip, headache
But I'm so happy it's done - I do this quarterly now; I used to do this at least twice monthly
#SellingUsedBooks
#Idaho4 #Intersectionality
A few days after this post, my partner found a vintage book titled "Fiddlesticks Freckles" by Sam Campbell
Partner would've never noticed it if it hadn't been for this case
Today, someone bought "Fiddlesticks" from our book stall for $25 😂
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#SellingUsedBooks
61 internet units manifested, labeled, boxed
Separated 6 boxes of Easton Press Fiction vs Non Fiction
Got the book stalls (we are plural now!!!) on Facebook
(We are willing to use Nextdoor, Facebook, Insta but we cringe over it; we will NEVER use X)
A win again
The book stalls produced our highest revenue day ever since launch (March 2024)
So it's another Sometime Around Midnight work session
I'm counting cards from 100+ tarot decks to keep that sales momentum going through December
#SellingUsedBooks
#ShareYourWins
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Just finished pricing more book stall titles after working on book stall signage, after working on an Internet sets shipment
Half of our sales today were from the new stall located on the 2nd floor
It is maybe 20% stocked & on its 10th day of operation w/no advertising
I am 🥹🥹🥹
#SellingUsedBooks
Today was pricing pricing pricing books for a featured section in the lower stall
Tomorrow is signage signage signage to alert our buyers we have another stall on the upper level
Which is 20% stocked
First sale from upper stall yesterday, a few more today
Monday restock ☺️
Today in #SellingUsedBooks
Boxed 121 Internet inventory units
Priced 143 Little Golden Books
Sold a valuable set from one of my fave YA authors
Sold the exact set from another fave YA author that launched my bookselling career 🥹
Found the last book that completes a set that might sell for $1k
#SellingUsedBooks
#ShareWins
In 2024, we opened a 500 square foot book booth in an antique mall
Three of us dedicating part time hours to what has become our favorite selling channel
We just hit our first $4k month
And we've barely gotten started with all we want to do
It's working 🥹🥹🥹
#SellingUsedBooks
3.5 crates of fresh journal and notebook inventory priced
Will be stocked once Spooky Season is over
(Journals are sourced secondhand, but are in fact, unused)
#SellingUsedBooks
3 book sales in 3 days
19k steps
Listed a bunch of Internet inventory; 102 more units out the door tomorrow
Priced a ton of stall inventory for a restock later this week
Not sure where the motivation and energy came from, but I'll take it and hope for more!
#SellingUsedBooks
Time to box 40 sets and get them out of my bedroom and off to the shipping carrier
::nodding vigorously in used book dealer::
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#SellingUsedBooks
Because of course the venue I use for online selling has put a previously sold item under review the day after I shipped 100+ more units to them
My inventory is still active for now
Gotta pull and submit some paperwork
#Fuck2025
