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Saving Tips for Buying and Selling Books -
tips from Yahoo!
for reducing college text book costs.
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Selling
Used College Text Books
- To sell used
text books online, check out Ecampus. Most college bookstores
will buy back books at the end of the semester, but don't
forget to do some comparison selling before you hand
over your used text books. Check out the prices at Ecampus
- Sell Your Used Text Books page first. All you have
to do is enter the ISBN number and you can find out if they
are interested in buying your books, and if so, what their
offer would be. One advantage to using Ecampus over auctioning
off you books on Ebay or using the Amazon marketplace, is
that you don't have to wait for a seller to come along before
you can get cash for your books. If they are interested
in what you have, they Ecampus folks will buy your book
directly from you.
However, if Ecampus or one of the other online college book
stores doesn't have a demand for your books, you can try
auctioning them on Ebay.
- Ebay has some
free features that make it especially easy to sell
your books. All you have to do is enter the ISBN number
of your book into their form box, and they can programmatically
fill in your listing with item information and a stock photo.
(Besides books, this feature is also available for movies,
music and video games.) You can use their service to develop
a first cut of your listing, and then customize it with
your own additional description information. This service
is also available at www.half.com,
Ebay's sister web site for fixed priced sales.
I did a test run at their new listing service by typing
in the ISBN number of a book I had laying around my desk,
and the service did work well. My faux listing in fact was
returned with a graphic of my book and all of the correct
descriptive information.
- Amazon also
has a marketplace where you can sell used books, including
text books, online. They have the same feature available
on Ebay where you enter the ISBN number and your listing
gets prefilled with some basic product information. Amazon's
fees, as of this writing, are a commission of $0.99 plus
15% of your sale price, and credit to cover shipping costs.
If your text books are are heavy, note that the Amazon shipping
credit may not be enough to cover the extra costs, so you
would have to build the extra shipping costs for heavy books
into the sales price.
| Economists
report that a college education adds many thousands
of dollars to a man's lifetime income--which he then
spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughn |
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When
I was young I though money was the most important thing in
life. Now that I'm old--I know it is. ~ Oscar
Wilde
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