Best Place To Sell Textbooks/books?

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

August 29 2008 21:39 GMT

I bought all my textbooks for this semester. However, I realized something.

http://www.abebooks.com/
Has Really Cheap Prices
Okay so I was looking around, and I still have my Ethics book from the 2nd Semester.

Price on Amazon

Price on Abebooks

So I spent $30-35 more dollars than I had too when I ordered it from Amazons in January.

I'm in a problematic decision. Should I sell it $80, or $55?

I don't like screwing people over, but I'd late to break even?

I know that was irrelevant to the original title, but I just wanted to talk about that.

I wanna sell my books. I've tried Craigslist, but it never goes anywhere.

Should I sell them on Amazon, E-Bay? Problem is I don't have shipping material. How could I get them, and are they expensive?

I've never sold anything online before.

EDIT
Abebooks only offered me 46

Ryshi

Canada361 Posts

August 29 2008 21:46 GMT

My university has a forum where students can chat and there's a book exchange. Usually we can sell it for 60-80% of the original bookstore price. See if your school has a book exchange service.

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

August 29 2008 21:47 GMT

On August 30 2008 06:46 Ryshi wrote:
My university has a forum where students can chat and there's a book exchange. Usually we can sell it for 60-80% of the original bookstore price. See if your school has a book exchange service.

We do have a bookstore buyback, but you only get 20-30% back. I'm not even kidding. It's horrible.

GeneralStan

United States4789 Posts

August 29 2008 22:03 GMT

The bookstore buyback at my school is even worse. They wanted to give me $5 for an $80 book. As if. Fortunately, Craigslist has been discovered by the student community at large, and books that are useful used are worth at least 50% of their original value. Fuck the bookstore and their obscene used book profits.

LuMiX

China5757 Posts

August 29 2008 22:15 GMT

people use half.com too. but its basically amazon, literally o_O

Ryshi

Canada361 Posts

August 29 2008 22:25 GMT

On August 30 2008 06:47 Mickey wrote:

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We do have a bookstore buyback, but you only get 20-30% back. I'm not even kidding. It's horrible.

No I'm not talking about selling back to the store. I'm saying you use that forum to connect with other students so you can sell it for higher and they can buy it for lower (IF they prefer to buy used of course)

Polemarch

Canada1564 Posts

August 29 2008 22:32 GMT

Some suggestions on buying/selling. Haven't tried any personally though.

http://lifehacker.com/5043180/best-places-to-save-money-on-textbooks

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

August 30 2008 04:58 GMT

On August 30 2008 07:25 Ryshi wrote:

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So basically it's like a Craigslist?

sillyboy_tomato

United States157 Posts

August 31 2008 02:04 GMT

to buy books, personally the best way to buy one is from some upper classman. To see it, i personally just sell it by hand since i dont want to go do the hassle of sending it.

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