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dkossy	Order Drought	Lead	[-]
Posts: 139 (06/02/09 08:29:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I don't usually like to complain about the ups and downs of orders, but I'm wondering if anyone else out there is having a drought in Alibris orders. I haven't had an Alibris order for over a week. Had been getting about an order a day. After their big upgrade, orders seemed to fall off a cliff. -- Donna
thebookladies	Declining Alibris Sales	#1	[-]
Posts: 65 (06/02/09 12:45:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We have definitely seen a decline in Alibris sales, for the past 2-3 months or so - nothing sudden but each voucher seems to be for less and less!
oposi	Order Drought	#2	[-]
Posts: 17 (06/02/09 15:28:54) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	To: dkossy thought it was just me. only had a couple small ones from BN. Very depressing.
Bookfynder3	Not great, not bad...	#3	[-]
Posts: 1476 (06/02/09 15:33:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	....for me. Dropped ABE and sold 9 books via Alibris, 2 biblio, one borders, one b&n in May. All of these sales actually were via alibris and its partner programs. Average sale just under $15. For me that's decent for May. If I stayed with ABE, I probably would have had two, possibly three more sales, but the listing fees would have wiped out those profits. Just over 3,600 inventory...but adding very few books these days. It's hard to get motivated with summer coming on. Yes, I know, that's a self-defeating stance to take and I'm not proud of myself. -- Gary
dkossy	Depressing	#4	[-]
Posts: 140 (06/02/09 15:57:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Also, most of my Alibris orders used to be for decent amounts, over $20, many of them much higher. These days they seem to specialize in the under $10 market. Yes, depressing, in more ways than one.
MSager46		#5	[-]
Posts: 537 (06/02/09 15:57:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My Alibris sales picked up when their coupon came out, and then again when they had a newsletter featuring summer reading. I have been selling quite a few religion/philosophy books, audio fiction (surprisingly), and vintage fiction series. Cannot complain about sales -- better than I anticipated for May.
oposi	Not great	#6	[-]
Posts: 18 (06/02/09 16:47:05) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Gary I list the same about 8,000 books on 3 sites. I have about 500 paperbacks I have kept on-line mostly for their subject matter, and keep priced between 2.00 and 3.00. Those are the books I am selling lately at abe. Perhaps customers need to save due to economy. At least I don't lose on postage there, like I do here. Biblio is dead, and now so it seems, is Alibris. The last sale here was a little golden book (a cheap copy). My higher priced books are like lonely little petunias in an onion patch.
oddballbooks		#7	[-]
Posts: 264 (06/02/09 18:19:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	With the occasional fluctuation Alibris has been providing fewer and fewer sales each month. Some of it is the general downturn in the economy but sales on Alibris seem to have fallen even further than other sites have for me. - John
Bookfynder3	John, it's a mystery....	#8	[-]
Posts: 1477 (06/02/09 20:14:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	....to me, talking about success on various sites. When I used to go on the ABE forum, you'd have some folks say ABE outsold Alibris by a wide, wide margin. For the last two years Alibris easily topped ABE for me, which is why I finally decided I couldn't afford to keep feeding ABE it's listing fees. I can see why there would be a difference if the bookseller lived "overseas," which would favor ABE, but I am not sure why my books didn't sell on ABE but at least account for some sales on Alibris. As I've stated before, some months it was 10-to-1 Alibris over ABE. That's a big, big difference. -- Gary
MSager46	True to form...	#9	[-]
Posts: 538 (06/03/09 10:11:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My sales picked up mid May to make the month a decent one. I've been selling a lot of religion/philosophy in the $40 area, some travel & exploration in the $12 area, and amazingly, a number of audio books, ranging from $5 to $18. I signed up on AntiqBooks and had first month sales in excess of $325. spread over 4 books.
oposi	Order Drought	#10	[-]
Posts: 19 (06/06/09 07:25:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Seven days now - no alibris or BN orders. edited: Change that to 15 days now, no orders through this site. I keep checking to make sure my books haven't been put on vacation Last Edited By: oposi 06/13/09 03:49:45. Edited 2 times.
Joyful Alternative		#11	[-]
Posts: 119 (06/07/09 02:43:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I wouldn't be upset except amazon just caved in too! And I even started tweeting: JoyfulA
oposi		#12	[-]
Posts: 20 (06/10/09 11:25:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just looked at my balance and after the June fee is offset, they owe me 45 cents. and now it looks like a Zero pay period for June 19.
Joyful Alternative	I'm glad I'm complained!	#13	[-]
Posts: 121 (06/12/09 18:22:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Within hours, orders started piling in (relatively speaking; I'm a small-time seller!), and not my $1.99 specials that I've had listed for 4 years, but the $10-$25 books. Some Alibris, some Amazon, and even a Biblio. I hope everyone else is sharing this good fortune. All I've done differently is start listing a few books every night, after I finish the work that pays the mortgage. Tomorrow I'm heading to a flea market-type sale of what the college students left behind in the dorms when they moved out at the end of the semester, to benefit United Way. Anyone had any experience at these?
Butzson		#14	[-]
Posts: 2 (06/15/09 17:17:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I went through several weeks that were nothing. A few books here and there. This past couple of weeks have taken off. However, we've noticed that we are selling more paper backs than the hard covers. I told a friend about it and she said, she always buys paper back copies because they are easier to hold when lying in bed, on the beach or whereever. There's been no certain type. It's been nice. I hope it continues.
IAmTheRealOtherGuy	Drought Update?	#15	[-]
Posts: 204 (10/29/09 08:37:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Am I the only person experiencing near zero sales this week?
ARLighthouse		#16	[-]
Posts: 268 (10/29/09 08:47:29) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This week, Oct. 25th to today, is one of the worst, and maybe the worst, I've experienced in the past couple of years, on ALL sites I list on! I have a bad feeling that the economy as a whole has experienced a 'dead cat bounce' these past number of weeks, and this week it has come back to earth. :-( ARL
dmwkiddo		#17	[-]
Posts: 126 (10/29/09 11:37:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	they stated they have 18k sellers now and we get reduced sales....
losninos	Sales	#18	[-]
Posts: 376 (10/29/09 17:34:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My sales have been average overall-quite good earlier in the week but tailed off the last couple days. I'm increasingly finding I can list almost nothing except recently published books. It used to be that university press items, e.g., listed for a decent price-a few dollars at least. Now the mega listing seashells, BWB, motor city, etc., etc., etc., have all gotten in on these driving them to a penny or thereabouts. I'm afraid if I don't begin using a scanner I'll be out of business real soon.
Bookfynder3	Coming in "spurts", so to speak	#19	[-]
Posts: 1518 (10/29/09 19:57:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I can't complain since I have scaled back my book scouting drastically in recent months (because of some health issues, but that's another story), and for some reason I find I go a week or so without a sale, then will get two to four sales in a two-day period. It helps when one of them goes for $50 to $90, which thankfully has happened fairly often, but not as often as I'd like. -- Gary
bookdealerron	From best month ever in Sept to mediocre	#20	[-]
Posts: 1 (10/30/09 03:31:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My sales have dried up on Alibris this week but have slowed down on other sites as well. I normally get at least a few a day on Alibris only one or none a day this week. My Ebay sales also dropped to 1/2 the sales price of what the same items sold for only two weeks ago. A new month and the holiday season are just around the corner!

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