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Whats in a Title

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Its Sunday again.. Had a really good day at Flea Market yesterday.. I also spent a lot of time figuring ways to make it easier to close down in a few weeks… I don’t have a truck so will be using two cars and going back and forth to home.  I think one thing that will help is a sale on my hard covers on the one big table… So today I will clean out the items I don’t want to sale and put them away. Or bring them home… I have been bringing home under stock and odd things. I am bringing home all tapes today so if you want music or talking books today is your last chance. There are 6 weekends till we close… Then 4 or 5 till we open again.. In that time we are closed I will be checking out more stock.. So if you are in the Lake City Area and come to my store right me a email or post a message here if you have a certain author you want when we come back.

This week I am going to be getting birthday gifts out to the grands.. Two birthdays coming up and then in three weeks from theirs three more… Then we go into November and Grandpa and Aunt Shari… Wow Then December brings Aunt Nancy and Christmas… Think I can send them all a used book … LOL…

I put a nother Leap Pad on the website.. its got three books with it… check it out www.readerwave.ecrater.com  you can also find dolls, baby cradle its an antique. stuffed animals… check it out… Shot glasses are at www.shotglassheave.ecrater.com 

Of course you can find Waiting for Agnes at  www.readerwave.ecrater.com www.ebay.com www.amazon.com 

Have a great Sunday see you next time.

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Summer Colds

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

What a week and its Wednesday… Been sick with a cold and I always have such a time with them… Starts with the throat.. Had soar throat for 4 days.. nothing seamed to help.. Then it moved to my head and chest..At this point it was Monday and I called doctor and got meds I had taken last year and worked so well.. They are working but I still feel lifeless… Hubby has been sick also so we have been doing it together… No one feels like doing anything…

On the bright side heard from an old customer from another town in Florida.. She was wondering what happened to my online store.. Well it was doing nothing so I took it down. I now have a store at the Flea Market in Lake City.  I am inside the building please tell your friends and if you are looking for something let me know. I will keep an eye out for it… if you are looking for an on line store I know of several  www.acread.ecrater.com  and someone I have ordered from many time… is beckisprout on www.eBay.com  she is in Anchorage,Alaska now your books don’t come as fast as they would in lower US. But the books look great the price is right and the service is excellent.

I will be at the Flea Market this weekend please come out and say hello..would love to meet you…

Remember I sell Local author Joe Bullards book “Waiting for Agnes” on line at www.ebay.com www.readerwave.ecrater.com www.amazon.com  check it out… I only have 5 left at this time.. so get yours now… They are telling me that a new book will be coming out in August.. I do not know the details as yet ..

Well have a good day and stay well summer is coming fast…

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Dear Blog

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Good Morning dear blog.. I am so sorry I have been missing you every morning.. I have been very busy with my farms(farmville and farmtown, Country life and my Island Paradise.  That and grand children, getting ready for a yard sale this Friday or Next. Receiving and looking for new pieces of furniture.  Oh and my book store and my online book.. Then there is my hubby who is having some minor surgery this coming week..

Today is yard sales (other peoples) we did real well last week. Hoping to do as well this week.. Our online book “Waiting for Agnes” we put it back on Amazon at authors request. Has done well so far. Remember we have it on eBay, amazon, and ecrater. Then if you are local we have it at the Lake City Flee Market on the weekends. Come inside to “The Book Store”

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Waiting for Agnes

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Soon “Waiting for Agnes” will be joined by another book.. Author is putting out a second book and its sounds like a good one. I will be selling it on all my sites, and the flee market..   What a great thrill for me to be the one to offer this book for sale. Keep your eyes and ears open for the new book coming soon..

You can find “Waiting for Agnes” on www.readerwave.com www.ebay.com www.amazon.com and www.readerwave@ecrater.com $19.99 plus postage.  At the Flee Market in Lake City,Florida for $20.00 at “The Book Store” inside the building… all are signed.

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Holiday Shopping

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I have lots to get done… I should of got the stuff for my store done already… Not…. Want to take all the K-nec’s we have and package them up with directions and get ready to put them in my store and try some at the flee market… I wish my grands were here to help me do this… They use to love to play with them.. The girls.. guys never got into it… I am cleaning out my toys as most of the time they bring there own and don’t want to use ours anymore… So holiday time is a great time to do this … I need to find some holiday things to put in my store .. I have used up all of my own that I want to get rid of… So will scope out the shops… etc…

I am really going to put books in my store this week and I am going to look into my boxes of shot glasses and see if I can find my TN ones some one asked me about…

You can find me on Twitter readerwave is my name…. you can find my book store by going to www.readerwave.ecrater.com  or www.readerwave.com  I am no longer on eBay or Amazon but I still have Waiting for Agnes by Joe Bullard on eCRATER.. Come see me…. you can make coments here and tell me what authors and books you are looking for.. If you want to send someting to a country I don’t have listed let me know…

This month if you tell me you read this here I will put a free book my choice in your order… will try to make it go with what you already order… You have to mention this blog. please put date.. so I can remember…. If you know me my thoughts change with the minute… LOL… But I do honor all my promises….

For thoses of you who have fall and it looks like fall I wish I were there… Have a great day…

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Goodbye Amazon and eBay

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Due to rising cost and changing polices.. Amazon and eBay have seen the last of my books.. I sell well on both. But I have to pay such high fees that I can’t price my books at the cost I want to give my customers.  I have been selling one book on both sites and its not worth it anymore.. Amazon has a new policy that I have to send the book or item to the customer before they pay me.  Then if there is a problem I have to fight to get my money.. I dropped them the minute I read that.. Also they charge $5.99 for selling so I have to price things way up to get my money and authors money out of it..  eBay is raising and raising there prices… I am just a simple store who does a few products a week… I am not one of there high end sellers… I do this to please the customer and myself.  If I had to make a living at it. Never happen.. I sell to low…

My dream is to have my own bookstore someday… I have seen what I want to do from several others I know of. It can be done.. I just need capital and a good head start… So its my dream… and a good one.

Any ways I am on eCRATER.  The price and location is just right for me and my book store. I also have a shot glass store…. www.readerwave.ecrater.com      www.shotglassheaven.ecrater.com

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One Week

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Woke up laying in bed thinking oh I should of got up sooner and gone to the Flee Market. I did a good job yesterday.. I guess you should not second guess yourself… I got up and walked out to the kitchen and looked outside it was raining…. No wonder my back is giving me a problem… Or maybe it was the boxes I lifted yesterday… I was lucky to find someone to scoot the books all the way back in the car for me…   In the morning when I got to the Flee Market the tables were fixed crazy like someone had two booths the week before.. the tables are heavy to move so a man was there shopping and he helped me… Then I got him to back my car in the spot for me… That was so nice… I know that people who sell there will do it but they weren’t there yet.. so it was nice to find someone to help….Every box needs a fill up.. That means I sold something out of these boxes…Everything is still in the car so when I get the boxes out to store them I will fill them so they are ready for next week…

If you are looking for a certain book and wanted it held for you I will but you must buy what is held.. You can tell me you want something and if I have it will bring but if you are not sure if you want to buy will put in box’s and you take your chances….

Remember we are taking trade ins now… Nothing older than the 90′s  All the western we can get… all in good sellable shape.  When you buy a book it cost $1.00  or $.50 and a book… 

If I can make a go of this from week to week I will rent more space and bring more books … Sense I can lift so many this would give a young person a part time job..as my helper so its a win wins all the way around.

Now don’t for get I still have books at three locations online  www.readerwave.ecrater.com www.readerwave.com www.ebay.com www.amazon.com   This is three places and four addresses   www.readerwave.com  brings you too my store,eBay, blog, and my shot glass store.

Its so nice to get out with the people again… Hope to see you this coming week tell your friends…

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This Is My Story(Again) 9/16/09

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

What’s it like to have a  online business.. Its different than a business outside the home in many ways.. In my case I have had an online bookstore sense November 2005. I started out on eBay when the prices were allot less expensive to sell.. I started out with 200 books and its grown to online and off total of over 3000. I did hardly any sales the first year… 2nd year got better.. and so forth.. Last year as the economy got worse so did business.. I have always remained in the black.. I could not live on what I make.. Its more a hobby to keep me busy.. But I would not want to give it up for anything.. I was lucky enough to meet an author who sells his own books… So I took this over and offer “Waiting for Agnes’s” on three different markets.. eCRATER which sells for less, eBay sells for a little more, and Amazon that sell for the most…. The reasons being eCRATER does not charge for anything that they have.. You meaning Me have to do all the work of putting your info in about your item.. Where in my case I sell books eBay takes the IBSN # and finds all the info that  book publishers would have on this book and brings it to your site including photo’s. Where on eCRATER I have to take photo’s and store them… I have to create every bit of info that I offer… This includes getting the info out about my store.. I have to self promote it…Twitter has been a big help… I was selling nothing but Waiting for Agnes for a while, now business is picking up… Amazon charges a huge fee to sell your item so I put this back by selling at a higher price…. eBay has out Fee’s themselves.. they charge when you put an item in and it is reentered every month.. luckily its automatic… but there is a fee… then when you sell there is a another fee. It you have a store there is a monthly fee… of over $10.00 .  I was spending over $200.00 a month when at eBay so when I read a blog about someone selling on  another site  I asked them about it and they pointed out eCRATER. Thanks to that person I have saved a lot of money.. It has taken a while to pick up and its still slow but I see the light… Online store when you store things in your home, in my case my husband does not ask me to pay for my electricity or room … I think he chucks it up to I am happy and busy.. He also does not charge me for boxing up my items… He is getting where he is easy to talk to about something as he is keeping up with what my store is doing.. He likes to go to the post office with me and when I can’t go he goes and chats with the postal employee’s and comes home and tells me.. This blog has done me alot of good with selling as well as letting me get my thoughts out of my head…

(Remember this blog is weeks old)

I am still working on Romance this week … I don’t see a finished in sight. So next Monday I will just stop and go on to adventure, mystery for a change in passe and let those people see some new books… fantasy and paranormal people will just have to wait till I get some more books… They are all in… Historical Romance  I have allot to put in but trying to do one side of my room at a time…   At anytime if there is something you are looking for let me know and I will look though what I have and get it to you if I have it… We do not have a bookstore in my town.. I get my new books at signings or WalMart. The nearest new store to me is 30 miles away… People have tried but I think they just have not been in the right place with the right items… When I go to yard sales I find books that are like new.. so I know people are going to book stores… people are reading…

What really hurts is when people stick you with no payment… I did not think this was possible.. I did make a few mistakes in the beginning .. That is why I do not take checks anymore.. Well a couple of weeks ago I had someone buy one new books and pay on paypal. Then same person bought two of the same book on paypal.. This person payed for both orders right away so I got them ready and mailed the next day… 4 days later the persons bank put a hold on the one book payment which amounted to over 25.00 .Paypal sent me a notice that there was a hold on payment do not send item.. Now who waits 4 days to mail something when you have the payment and its good… After all this time and my sending info to prove that I mailed it I got a notice from Paypal that the case is closed I am out $25.00.. And I am really out as I have to pay the book author his share. I have sent a couple of emails to this person and have not gotten a reply… This does not happen often.. This is my first time…. I have made mistakes and had to fix them at my expense .. And I do right away.. I have a very good feedback on all my selling places… To help make extra money so I could go buy more books I started selling at my local flee market I did pretty good… But I was underselling the lady who was always there….(She has moved.. sense this email was written.  I am back at Flee Market after a summer brake. Will be there as long as I can weather permitting.)

This is my story and I am sticking to it

This is my Monday desk every week

This is my Monday desk every week

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Can You Find Me, Amazon,eBay,eCRATER?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

What to write.. Has been kinda easy all week… Only thing that has been.. I have been in a funk all week.. I don’t know what it is for sure… Could be missing grandchildren and their parents. Could be I am ready for a change in senery and can’t do it… Sales on store are ok… sold 6 books to 3 customers… so really only three sales….. And one after being a ok payment and sent to customer.. comes back as a hold… Now what online seller does not send their items as soon as the money is there… I am noted for next day service… Just another thing to worry about … Have never had this happen before…. I have had people who order and never pay… but never after 4 days the bank puts a hold on the money I alreay have and spent.. so to speak… If customer does not pay they have my book and I owe the author… As its one of my new autographed books.  I have been going to enter books and shot glasses all week and they just sit on my desk…

I have been doing a lot of thinking of the real book store I would love to have… Its a pipe dream…. Bookstores in our town don’t last… To many people here work in other bigger towns I am sure they go there for their books… That and Wal-Mart … I find pleantyof used… And I have done some good business at flee market as I am lower than the bookstore that is always there… But that is taking business away from someone else… and I know what that is like.. As my husband and family say its a good thing that I don’t have to make a living at this.   I have done real well selling one book over the time when the times have been hard… “Waiting for Agnes” by Joe Bullard great little book and its autographed… I am selling it in three locations on the Internet… Amazon, eBay and eCRATER.   Amazon and eBay I only sell one book.. My bookstore is on eCRATER at www.readerwave.ecrater.com  I have many kinds of books and lots of authors.. over 1200 books and 120 authors, then I have books in categories if I don’t have many of their books.. so if you don’t find under authors name look under romance, fantasy, adventure, religion etc, audio, large print… I also have other things like cups, Cd’s talking books, movies, Leap-Pad items.. I even have some that are just book or cartridge they are not listed.. But if you have something you need email me and I will look … readerwave@bellsouth.net  If I don’t have will look for it other places.. I had a email yesterday.. I looked on eBay for book and found it and told customer and they could order themselves cheaper than if I ordered it and had it sent to them…  used books sell from .55 to 2.00 depends on side and shape.. Harlequin sell for .55 or a little less..  Check it out you will be very happy to find the book you are looking for… Once in a while I feature other stores on my blog as well…. There is a store in Anchorage, Alaska that sells books on Alaska… There is another lady who I found who sells neat candles… You can find anything if you look…  If you have a favorite author and see that they are going to visit  the North Florida area let me know I love to meet all the different authors… I have gotten so really good reading and meant 12 new authors to me last month… As you might of seen over the last 8 months that I have had this blog I have a favorite author Debbie Macomber… Now if one of you is going to Cedar Cove Days.. email me some pictures… would love to go.. I was there to see Debbie about 8 yrs ago… what a nice little town…

Piles of books are one author on shelves are Romance on right, mystery,adventure on left

Piles of books are one author on shelves are Romance on right, mystery,adventure on left

There are over 2000 more books to be entered so tell a friend to tell a friend to look us over and ask for something they might not see…

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Book Store

Friday, July 24th, 2009

eCRATER is a little known place, where I can enter all my books for free, pay nothing to them when I sell books, or other items.  Then its also a place where you don’t have to pay allot when you buy…. I only charge 00.45 to 2.00 for used books… depending on shape they are in and size.  I have Harlequin which I can not sell on Ebay or Amazon as I would have to charge over a 1.00  Both these other stores charge huge fee’s which like any other business I would pass on to you so I could make money. I have a book in both these stores and I also have it in eCrater… You can see the difference in pricing… Check out “Waiting for Agnes by Joe Bullard.. its a new personally autographed book about the Coral Castle in Homestead,Fl. Its the only book I have been selling for awhile… People are not checking out my eCRATER store even though its easy to look at and over 1200 items in it. New and Used Books, audio,LARGE PRINT,Cd’s, collectibles, stuffed animals, flip flops (homemade decorated) We also have a big collection of Nora Roberts, and Debbie Macomber, Diana Palmer,James Patterson,and many more. We have over 120 named authors as well as ones in sections of Romance, Mystery,Fantasy,Religion and more.  We offer you two ways to buy… Papal and money order, with paypal its harder to offer you a shipping discount. But if you trust us..we will send you a refund after we process your order.  With money order we will send you the right bill before you send it… What we offer is When you buy more than one book first or most expenxive is shipping  full price and everyone after is 1.00  … Another deal is if you buy 4 or more books you get one free.. You email us with the choice and we take it off line for you… It must be one of the same or lesser value.

I hope we have answered all questions if not make a comment or email us at readerwave@bellsouth.net   our store is at http://tinyurl.com/olyuny  or www.readerwave.ecrater.com   

You can follow us on twitter or here on our blog if you have something you would like to know about let us know.. we are open to new idea’s we try to follow blog hops… or we might lead you back to another blog that we though was great… Become a regular follower… We’d love to have you on board.. It gets lonely here by ourselves…Come back often and we love comments.

autographed by author Joe Bullard

autographed by author Joe Bullard

Next picture try to show our book store

Piles of books are authors that we have 4 or more and eaiser to keep stacked and others on shelves

Piles of books are authors that we have 4 or more and eaiser to keep stacked and others on shelves

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