The Daily Day Of A Used Book Store Owner/The Inner Workings 

It's a lot of work but a ton of fun too! You're welcome here anytime! :)

Hey Jim thanks for the comment and good luck with the venture! I'll tell ya it was a lot more work than I ever imagined initially, still can be a bit overwhelming at times but if you stick with it gets better and better, I wish you both the best! If you ever have any questions feel free to reach out and I'll do my best to assist. Thanks for subscribing too brother, appreciate it. - Phil

I appreciate the comment, thank you!

Thanks for the kind words and support, I'll keep truckin 😊

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HAhah thanks Steve! I'll be seeing ya soon!

Thanks Brian, I'll be bringing up a new load this week! Thanks for watching!!!

Appreciate the comment! Glad you find it interesting, I'll keep goin at it!

I love it! Thanks for watching!

Thank you! Will do

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Loving it!

Well thanks for watching and reaching out. I recently made a video titled, "Lessons Learned from Owning and Operating a Used Bookstore" I think you may find that beneficial as to what my approach was beforehand, what I would have done differently and what I did right. Check it out if you have the time. It's hard to make suggestions without knowing certain details but I think that vide could help you get started. Write back if you'd like - Phil

Hello Moline, thanks for watching! I organize by genre in the shop, I'm pretty good remembering where most everything is or if I have it in stock. I've been in the process of refining the organization of my online shop making it more compatible with the physical location which has been quite a task but very necessary. Anyhow thanks for watching!

I'm semi familiar with Hamilton Books, I'm more familiar with Bargain Books, I believe they are similar though. I think they're great! You can definitely find good deals through them. There is an outlet here about 40 minutes away called "Ollies" and they'll have over stock and are able to sell some of their books anywhere's from half price to a quarter of the retail price. As a small independent book store it can be hard to keep up with pricing competitively but one thing I do is with my novels I sell at $2 a piece, paperbacks .50 so for the customers coming into the store they're assured basically that they won't find a better deal out there. The rest of my material is priced competitively based on the market but i'm always giving the people coming in and giving me business nice discounts. I appreciate the business and if they're happy, I'm happy and they keep coming back. Thanks for watching!

@@thebookpeddler There are lots of resellers who buy movies from Hamilton but not sure about booksellers like yourself, they do have $4 flat fee shipping thought. I am curious who are the Overstock distributers that sale to Hamilton/Bargain/Ollies/etc. I would assume you'd have to buy literally tons of books from them. Finally could those guys be bypassed I wonder. Awesome channel, I was supposed to start an EBAY store 8ish yrs ago but like you said you need hard work and discipline. You inspired me to consider starting an EBAY store to sale some of my books and stuff.

@@ronxxf I've looked into it a bit and basically if you have a warehouse to process that amount, the owners purchase "gaylords" of books. They'll be thousands in on a crate basically. It's an assortment of different genres, from my understanding you never really know what it consists of, so kind of a blind buy. There's a company in Brooklyn that I know distributes books like that. Some of your large Amazon sellers buy from distributors like that. Buying quantity like that you'd have to have a solid template and scanning system set up and it's probably more so the large Amazon sellers that have deals worked out with those companies and employees to help process. They are large operations, I'm not overly interested in going that route myself for multiple reasons but anything is do-able. Just gotta get creative, set up deals with thrift stores maybe libraries etc. to try and bypass And in some cases "grease" the right palms that have the access. I'm actually about to get creative with a plan to access more private book collections but once it's put in motion and if it proves to be successful maybe I'll put something out about it. Glad you're enjoying the channel, sorry this message is so long. Good luck if you decide to start selling, it's a lot of work but once you get a flow going it gets better.

Most of my inventory at this point comes from house calls. I've become established so at this point it comes to me but generally every year I'll go to a promising estate sale or different events to scour for books

@@thebookpeddler thanks for replying back, what do you mean house calls?

@@glorfindelchocolateflowery6392 people will contact me to buy there books, so I makea house call. Or they bring them directly to me

@@thebookpeddler thank you for the information