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This issue of Bookologist looks at another selling venue, The Book Cellar (http://www.thebookcellar.com). We've received emails advertising the site, located in the Boston area, and we wrote to get more information. In response, account manager Kathleen wrote the following:
We operate similar to the Alibris sales model. We list your books on our site and buy them from you at a 20% discount. However, you may increase your list prices in order to offset the discount. That is up to you.
We offer an additional means of sales with no monthly fee. Benefits to listing on TBC: There are no monthly fees. We don't require exclusivity. You may sell on other venues online. We handle customer service and returns; you simply ship the book. We offer an efficient way to increase your sales by selling under the TBC "umbrella."
You may visit our front-end consumer site at http://www.thebookcellar.com. For US dealers we reimburse $4 per book (domestic) flat rate for S&H (all books should be shipped at media mail rate unless otherwise specified on our Purchase Order). For multiple books in a single order we reimburse $1 for each additional book. For international delivery we reimburse $12 per book for S&H (delivery in 7-21 days) and $3 for each additional book in a single order.
Though we do not have a limit to how many books you may list on our site, we do require that your inventory is not less than 2,000 records. If your inventory does not meet our minimum requirement, there is a non-refundable $25 account setup fee. We accept payment by check or by Visa/MasterCard/Discover.
Once an item is ordered from the TBC Web site, we post a Purchase Order on the Agent Intranet site, and we send you a Sales Notification by email. You will then login to your existing account with us and process the order (then ship the book to our warehouse or drop-ship the book to our customer). At any time you may review a detailed summary of your sales on our Agent Intranet site (sales processed from 12am on the 1st to 12am on the 28th/30th/31st of each month).
Payments to you (in the form of check) are sent on the first day of each month along with the summary of your sales. We strive to deliver the highest quality of service to our customers and business partners, so our primary requirement is that sellers process orders in a timely manner and frequently update inventory to maintain a good rate of fulfillment.
Required Information: We can convert from most any data format but prefer Homebase.txt for quickest processing. If you wish to join, we will need the following information in order to complete the setup of your account: Business contact information (business name, address, email, etc.). A text export file (.txt) of your entire database. Attach the export file to an email and send to info@thebookcellar.com.
Once we receive the above information and your file, we will create your account and provide for the initial upload of your inventory. You'll then receive account login information and a link to our Agent Intranet site. There are detailed instructions on the Web site to guide you through uploading and processing orders.
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