Although it is the best time to sell things, Christmas is an irritating time to be an Amazon Marketplace Seller. I like amazon market place because you don’t have to take pictures and write long descriptions, if you have a book / CD / DVD / … to sell just look if Amazon list it and then just click “sell yours” and put in a one line description of the condition. Easy.

However, at this time of year, just as you breathe sigh that you’ll won’t see the inside of a post office until next year the usual “oo nice” reaction to the “You’ve sold something on Amazon” e-mail becomes a “oo ****”. Ungrateful? Indeed. If you really can’t face the PO again just click on your “holiday settings” and say you’re away. I, obviously, am too mean to turn down the odd £2 from a sale.

I’d be interested to hear from other Amazon sellers as in the last two weeks I have sold four items, unfortunately three of them were sold earlier in the year. For the first item I wasted hours looking for it before finally checking email history and finding it already sold. After that I was a bit quicker to check mails. I don’t know if I inadvertently listed them twice or if Amazon messed up (I suspect the latter!).  Anyway, I’ve had to send grovelling mails and cancel the sales - a pain for the buyer if they are ordering stuff to be delivered for Christmas. I know that because stuff I have ordered from amazon sellers came back with a “no inventory, order cancelled” and that was for something I need in time to deliver for Christmas.