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The books I ordered from the Crafter’s Choice have finally all come. First the single book I ordered to finish the membership requirement came and I already listed that one at $3.69. It was lowest price, but someone must be using a bot to keep their price at the bottom because I note there is one book selling now for $3.68. This game is really cutthroat!

Okay… so the rest of the books are here and Cozy Quilted Christmas is now listed at lowest price 24.77. This leaves three other books to list. I am fighting some cold disappointment on one of these. When I checked the prices on the Giftboxes books, it looked like they would sell for $10 each. Now when I have the actual ISBN numbers to look up, I find out that this ISBN number is restricted only to “approved” sellers. Now what the heck does this mean? I am not allowed to list this set of books?

Well, I can always “list” them on USFreeAds or eBay. If I want to sell them, no one can stop me!

Two of my books, a knitting book(low price $19.75) and a quilting book (low price $15.54) I want to look at before I list; so will put them up later.

I’m traveling to North Carolina Thursday for a week and will have to put my books sales “on vacation” till I get back. I would take it all with me as it’s still small enough, but just don’t want to think about it while I am away.

I ordered 4 books for $1 each plus shipping….

1.	NICKY EPSTEIN’S SIGNATURE SCARVES
2.	GIFT BOX STUDIO LIFE AND GIFT BOX STUDIO LOLLI – 2-VOLUME SET
3.	ROLLING ALONG: EASY QUILTS FROM 2 1/2 STRIPS
4.	A COZY QUILTED CHRISTMAS

On the catalog, it says I should have been able to order an additional book for 50% off, but I don’t see this same offer when ordering online. My choices for books were based on competition on Amazon, Amazon.com Sales Rank, and sales price for used books. Hopefully, when these come, I will list them and quickly recoup the money spent, plus some profit. Gift box studio might have been a mistake as it’s two items to be sold separately on Amazon for $10 each. The craft club sold them as one item for $1. Amazon sales rank is very high for that item. Will have to see how it works out.

There was another book I wanted to get: “Knit Tricks”; so I took advantage of their sale:

This book sells on Amazon for low price of $14.94 with a sales rank of 37,408 (which is relatively low). I want the patterns in the book and then will list it for sale as used.

I think this purchase satisfies my membership requirement; so will not worry further about more purchases, but will look for bargains along the way.

The Craft Club disappointed me by not having two high value Martha Stewart books in stock.  Those had very good sales rank and would have fetched a nice profit on resale.  Maybe someone else is running this same money making plan and I needed to take action sooner, rather than leave this catalog collecting dust in my junk pile for months.

It’s been a month since my last update here.  In that time I’ve only sold 2 books.

I only listed 5 books during that time.  Just didn’t get out to the library.  The two wholesale lots I ordered through eBay were disappointing.  Most of the books were too old to be in much demand as text books for teachers today.  I wasn’t able to check the ISBN numbers of these books before buying and it was a mistake.

Today I stopped by another library and picked through the books for sale.  I only found two to sell and one of those I have to read before I can sell it

Every time I list more books to sell, I get more sold!  Hope it happens again.