Amazon Marketplace

Amazon.co.uk offers products for sale by private individuals and businesses, known on their site as merchants. This leads to a more competative sale price, but also means that no matter who I buy from, I am secure in the knowledge Amazon's guarantee has me covered. Listing an item for sale is very easy, enter the ISBN of your product, or search by title or description, descibe the condition, set your selling price, and its listed! Amazon is excellent in that they do not charge an up front fee. Listed items stay up for 90 days, and only when sold do they take a percentage of the profits. This percentage is a lot lower than ebay too! For selling my ...  Read the complete review

Just forget about shopping with Amazon.co.uk them selves and shop with the sellers. You will just notice one difference which is the prices and the delivery charges.Thumbs up to the marketplace for the prices but thumbs down on the delivery charges. Sellers on the Amazon website on the Marketplace make their money back with the delivery charges on the website. On the Marketplace buying books is a smart idea of shopping on here. A lot of sellers sell their books at such cheap prices and most of them start from the price of just one penny! Only thing they do is charge too much with the shipping with most of them charging around 4 quid now on the ...  Read the complete review

I used Amazon Marketplace first as a buyer, then as a seller once I'd got used to the way it worked. I'd previously sold stuff on eBay, and while I think eBay's unrivalled for clothes, jewellery etc., for books, CDs, DVDs and other electrical things Amazon seemed more straightforward. As a buyer, you can check the condition of the item you're buying (New, Like New, Used - Good etc.) and the seller's rating. You get added protection from Amazon: if you don't receive the item you buy you can go through a procedure to claim your money back, although luckily I've never had to use this. As a seller, listing items is much simpler than eBay. You can search ...  Read the complete review

I've recently graduated from university, and decided to clear out some of my old textbooks. After looking on ebay at how little the titles I had were selling for I decided to open a seller account with Amazon. I've used the service before as a buyer and never had any issues, and thought I couldn't go wrong with a company as big as Amazon. So far, I've been proven right! I listed four books about one week ago, and three of these have sold already. They've sold for at least double what they would have reached on ebay, so I'm really pleased. Signing up for an Amazon seller account is easy. Just log in to your buyer account and find the sell your stuff ...  Read the complete review

Before I start, I will say that I have never sold anything on Amazon's market place so I right this review purely from a buyers perspective. Amazon Market Place is part of Amazon.co.uk. It allows independent individuals & companies to sell items through Amazon's website. The items are all available for immediate purchase & comprise of a variety of new & used items. Every seller has their own profile. This details their feedback score, comments they have received from actual buyers & their terms & conditons of sale such as carriage charges. If you wish to buy an item, you simply add it to your basket & then check out as you ...  Read the complete review