Best way to sell some textbooks?

Have you checked to make sure they're worth anything? Text books can be pretty rough selling since new editions roll out constantly.
 
yea check the year :p If they are newer, I would suggest maybe a college library? they used to buy my friends books all the time... I guess it would depend on what they are though.
 
Half.com is the way to go (I used this site a lot before the ebay merge). I use to make almost $1K every year selling textbooks in college. My roommate and I collected all textbooks from students the bookstore wouldnt buyback at the end of the year, store them during summer. Then place them all on half.com at the beginning of the school year. Your college might move on to new additions, but others are still on the old editions and people will buy them.

There are also sites like bigwords.com that buy textbooks. You get a low price, but its better than nothing if you cant sell it yourself.
 
Wait till July/August or so and sell them bitches on ebay/amazon if or local if you want the most out of them. If you want to be rid of them now go to the closest college and check out their book buyback program. You can also google text book buy back or something like that and get prices/quotes online and mail them to the sites as well.
 
[quote name='wurms']Half.com is the way to go (I used this site a lot before the ebay merge). I use to make almost $1K every year selling textbooks in college. My roommate and I collected all textbooks from students the bookstore wouldnt buyback at the end of the year, store them during summer. Then place them all on half.com at the beginning of the school year.[/QUOTE]


There are so many lucrative opportunities in college.

My roommates and I opted for the buy two kegs of the shittiest beer you can buy and charge $5 for a plastic cup method, although I believe our house probably would have been a lot cleaner with your method. Oh well, it covered the rent and utilities :).
 
I did some searching. It looks like my books are different from the ones on amazon. The ISBN number is different on each book from the amazon listings. Searches for that ISBN come up with nothing on the internet. I'm guessing these are custom packages or they are older versions. The covers match the images on amazon. Unfortunately, I can't get more info unless I open the plastic.
 
erehwon, most colleges order custom books from the publisher so that they cannot be sold on the mass market. Usually you will find that the books are pretty much the same as their counterparts it's just to screw over the student. You could try asking around campus to see if anyone needs any (maybe post signs or something with what you've got). My college buys back books at the end of the year but since they're used you don't get what you paid for them back.
 
try searching for the isbn on bigwords.com

they tell you the lowest price on several sites and what sites are buying it back for. If the isbn is different, hten that sucks man. I bought a book once for $90 but it was custom and I'm stuck with it
 
These are just two books I picked up from a garage sale for $1 each. I didn't loose much. I tried several sites and none had the isbn. So, it doesn't look like I'll be able to sell them for a little extra money.
 
When all else fails, you can always try PaperBackSwap.com. Or you can just recycle them, although you definitely won't get $2 out of it.
 
[quote name='mission42']Wait till July/August or so and sell them bitches on ebay/amazon if or local if you want the most out of them. If you want to be rid of them now go to the closest college and check out their book buyback program. You can also google text book buy back or something like that and get prices/quotes online and mail them to the sites as well.[/QUOTE]

Bad idea if the textbook is one of those that gets a yearly edition. Your older textbook becomes almost worthless or drops a ton when the new version comes out. I suggest listing them on Amazon asap.
 
I always got a great return off of Chegg.com. The rent textbooks, so they usually offer higher trade in value since they make tons off of individual books.
 
[quote name='DarkRider23']Bad idea if the textbook is one of those that gets a yearly edition. Your older textbook becomes almost worthless or drops a ton when the new version comes out. I suggest listing them on Amazon asap.[/QUOTE]

It's a lucrative market, selling textbooks. For publishers/colleges/etc., I mean :cry:
 
During the back half of my college years, I always bought the previous edition for my text books and just went and met with the professor to check and see if the problems were numbered differently. I went from $300-$500 a semester, to $60 at most for textbooks. It's amazing how those things drop in value and for what? Five new homework problems per section and they've reordered them to make it look different? What a joke.

I need to write a textbook so I can print some money for myself.
 
[quote name='DarkRider23']Bad idea if the textbook is one of those that gets a yearly edition. Your older textbook becomes almost worthless or drops a ton when the new version comes out. I suggest listing them on Amazon asap.[/QUOTE]
Which is exactly why I always bought older editions. The information is almost exactly the same for at least a few years.
 
[quote name='DarkRider23']Bad idea if the textbook is one of those that gets a yearly edition. Your older textbook becomes almost worthless or drops a ton when the new version comes out. I suggest listing them on Amazon asap.[/QUOTE]

A lot of students in the classes I had would always have previous editions. They are cheaper to buy and almost exactly the same. You may have to do some looking around because page numbers are different or something but information can be word for word sometimes.
 
Chegg.com (as mentioned earlier) is great-- and if they are interested in the books they'll pay for the shipping to them....
 
May not net you the most money, but imho the easiest way is to use Amazon's book trade in option. You just enter your ISBN and they'll tell you how much they'll pay you for it. You can then print out a prepaid shipping label. My sis did that and got a decent chunk of change. Not as much as putting up individual listings probably, but it's a fraction of the work and time necessary.

Note: You get Amazon credit, not cash... but to me it's the same dif since I get so much from Amazon anyway.

http://www.amazon.com/Trade-In/b?ie=UTF8&node=2242532011
 
If you're alright with not getting the absolute maximum for your books, and would like a really easy way to get rid of them, I'd suggest using Fulfilled by Amazon. They charge a bit more in fees compared to selling them yourself, but the time saved by just sending in one huge box of books to Amazon and letting them handle the rest has been worth it for me.
 
if they are recent college edition books, id say get a small print out and post them around the campus.. WE are way more willing to pay $50 for a used textbook, over teh bookstores $80... whichever is cheaper.
 
Generally Amazon will always be your best bet. I would just list it in the marketplace and let it sit till it sells.
 
[quote name='mission42']A lot of students in the classes I had would always have previous editions. They are cheaper to buy and almost exactly the same. You may have to do some looking around because page numbers are different or something but information can be word for word sometimes.[/QUOTE]

The reason they are cheaper is because their price tanks. I'm not saying you can't sell them. I'm saying they will become dirt cheap, which they usually do. It's best to get rid of text book as soon as you can as opposed to waiting months for a new semester to start.
 
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