Amazon as used book store?

November 3, 2000 10:57 AM

Amazon as used book store? When did this happen -- you can sell your books (or other items), through amazon. Has anyone tried this? Where do the things show up?
posted by bison (5 comments total)

I may be displaying my ignorance here, but how about auctions.amazon.com?
posted by pnevares at 11:16 AM on November 3, 2000

I'm not sure when this started but it seems to be different than both auctions and ZShops . They take a cut when it sells, but give you a shipping credit and the listing is free.
posted by tdstone at 12:34 PM on November 3, 2000

oops...first timers mistake
Not sure when this started, but it seems to be different than both auctions and ZShops. They take
a cut when it sells, but give you a shipping credit and the listing is free.
posted by tdstone at 12:38 PM on November 3, 2000

It's similar to half.com - in fact, eBay (who owns half.com) recently announced a similar marketplace thing they will be creating with buy.com. amazon marketplace items appear in zShops, so there is some connection there. (disclosure: amzn gives me money every few weeks.)
posted by gluechunk at 12:52 PM on November 3, 2000

First of all, based on that link I'm not clear what you are talking about.

Why not go to a better source for used books? http://www.powells.com


posted by amanda at 5:53 PM on November 5, 2000