Books, an the reselling of them - Page 2

Originally Posted by musicman57

Sir,



Don't know if they have stores where you are, but I sell to Half Price Books. They have several stores around the D/FW area. Like you said, not a huge amount per, but it adds up and is a quick turn-around.

I have sold to Half Price Books before, and what I got was pretty lousy. I think I averaged about 15 to 20 cents per book, I said no more after that.

Apple and android phones have apps that have you scan the barcodes or enter the ISBN. It'll give the price on the spot from multiple book buy back sites.

I have used buy back sites in the past and I have had good experiences. Occasionally, you'll have the dilemma of a rejected book due to "damaged condition" but I know most have experienced such with ink cartridge trade ins as well.

I buy books for resale - I'm in NJ. I'm selective though... 99% non-fiction and text books. The more popular and mass produced a book is, the more there are in circulation. Out-of-print books are better. Those of you who do cleanouts probably come across tons of those!

Only non-fiction, an no older fiction? Sitting on a old copy of the sword in the stone.

Can you suggest any of those apps? When I went looking I just saw tons, for various things, but not value checking.

Will keep you in mind Holistic, I come across older books all the time at yard sales, an other places.

Sirscrapalot - We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. -Walt Disney

Anyone sell at all on Abebooks?

I recently won an auction that contained a mini-library from a psycologist and learned alot dealing with all of the books I got. This is my experience: First I found this awesome site called bookscouter.com You type in the isbn and it'll give you the results from 18 different online book buyers and sort it by the highest amount. What I did was open up bookscouter.com, amazon and ebay. I typed the isbn into one, then copied an pasted into the others. I then separated the books into separate piles 1 - books to sell on ebay/amazon 2 - books to send to online book buyers and 3 - books that aren't worth squat that'll either be yardsaled or taken to goodwill

For the books that I sent to online bookbuyers I split them up into 4 groups. These were the ones that gave the most per book. There were some other random ones that were the highest but for a difference of maybe a dollar it wasn't worth sending to a dozen different places. Here are the main 4 I sent to (this is all within the last couple months)

1 - Valore Books A+....Books were sent out and I was paid within a couple weeks and received the full amount quoted (although they send you a bunch of redundant emails in regards to your shipment)
2 - Sellbackyourbook.com A+...Books were sent out and I was paid within a couple weeks and received the full amount quoted
3 - Textbooks.com A+...same as above, paid quick and for full amount
4 - Powells Books C...They buy alot of books but it took about 5 weeks before I got paid and they are very picky. Luckily the books I had were in great condition but they did reject a couple of them. I still received probably 90% of what I was quoted.

Some people may say I spent too much time bothering with ebay and amazon and everything, but so far I've sold over $4000 in books on ebay and from the books I sent out to the online buyers I got back almost $200 total. Oh, and I only paid $140 for the auction lot!