Chess books on ebay?

Submitted by FM thinkdifferent on Wed, 08/15/2007 at 3:01am.

Hi there.

I'm thinking about selling some of my chess books (and believe me,I have a lot of them) on ebay.Do you guys think there are interested buyers?I have opened an ebay account,my nickname is chess_and_more and I think this is the link at my ebay page: http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=chess_and_more.

So,what books I want to sell?I have not made a complete catalogue yet,but I can try to list some of them:

Chess Encyclopedias A,B,C,D,E (all are third edition)

Chess Informant 64,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,81,82,83,85,86,87,88

Some of the encyclopedia monographies :

Kortchnoi Spanish C80-81

Romanishin Byhovskij Spanish C92-93

Romanishin Byhovskij Spanish C94-95

Jussupow Petroff C43

Beljavsky Michalchishin Sicilian Defence B86-87

Karpov Volga Gambit A58-59

Karpov Volga Gambit A57

Some New in Chess Yearbooks

John Nunn books :

Nunn Najdorf for the Tournament Player

Nunn Complete Najdor: 6Ag5

Nunn & Gallagher Beating the Sicilian 3

Dorfman The Method in Chess

Sveshnikov Sveshnikov's System

and many many more,mostly on openings but also some basic books and some middlegame ones (but some of them in Italian).

I never sold anything on ebay,and I don't know yet what's the better format to sell chess books (auction,fixed price,one book at time or a purchase many at once offer).Any feedback?

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Comments:

by Phobetor - 2 years ago
Eindhoven Netherlands

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 1202

Finally someone selling books and he doesn't post them in the Classifieds section! Isn't that frustrating for you, erik?

Maybe you should spend a new News item to lesser-known Chess.com features, like the Classifieds section, Downloads, Chess Quotes, Videos...

by erik - 2 years ago
Mountain View, CA United States

Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 9875

why don't you also post them in our CLASSIFIEDS section? :)

by ccarroll - 2 years ago
Memphis, Tn United States

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 13

I sold some poker books on Ebay last week. I got about five cents on the dollar of what I paid, not to mention the listing fees, auction fees, and packing them up and shipping them. However, they were a good deal for the buyer. I did recoup a little money and I saved a little landfill space. If you do not want to go to that trouble, consider giving them to the library.

by FM thinkdifferent - 2 years ago
Rimini,Italy Italy

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 64

Well,thanks a lot.Maybe I'll post a complete list of my book here.I opened a Paypal account,now I have to understand if I can avoid fees.If somebody is interested in one of these book contact me!

by GordonMcKinney - 2 years ago
Austin, TX United States

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 102

I sold some technical IT books a while back and found Amazon a good place to list. Although these chess books are pretty specialized.

Listing here is also a good idea, pop some prices on (like list price -40%) and accept payment via PayPal. That way you're sure of everything being cleared. For a low volume like this you should be able to avoid PayPal fees, check that carefully as it should factor in to your discount.

Don't forget to work out your packaging and shipping costs, books are heavy! :-)

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