<p>Hey folks,</p>
<p>I know this has been posted countless times, but I wasn't able to find any past threads with ease.</p>
<p>I'm looking for recommendations for websites to sell back college textbooks.</p>
<p>Can any of you help me out?</p>
<p>amazon marketplace is by far the best and will give ya back the most, plus it helps out other students.</p>
<p>amazon/ half.com</p>
<p>half.com .</p>
<p>is that also the best place to BUY books?</p>
<p>they're both good places.
i got my stats textbook, new, for $55. school was charging $75 for used and $95 for new!!!!
i believe that was on amazon... but i found a good deal on my physics book on half.com</p>
<p>Those college bookstores rip you off. I got like 20 dollars for 100+ dollars worth of books. They're criminals! Con-men! High-way robbermen, carpetbaggers, scroundrels, swine....(<em>pre-maturely runs out of applicable vocabulary.</em>)</p>
<p>Never go to the college bookstore for ANYTHING. Not to buy, not to sell.</p>
<p>If I have books I know friends may use, I will loan them out to them. That way it saves them a ton of money and gets the old book out of my way for a semester. Once I get it back I either loan it out again or if I don't have any friends taking the class and the book is expendable, I will sell it, usually on eBay.</p>
<p>I save books that I know I will refer to in my career, use as a source for a paper, or use as a reference for another class. An example is Children's Literature, which I am probably going to reference during Methods of Teaching Language Arts. It not only may help me with lesson plans and theory but could also be valuable for a paper on literature.</p>
<p>Sometimes you get a book that's just good reading material. Some of the books I was requried to read in high school still survive today for that reason. Catcher in the Rye happens to be one of my all time favorites after reading it (along with Great Gatsby) during my junior year. Both are on my shelf. So is an American History text I used last semester.</p>
<p>While I often think of saving some books, I realize they will be outdated by the time I am ready to reference them again. Thus, I am probably selling a chemistry book and a government book this summer. I'll keep the Algebra one from a while back and the Psych books always are good reference, but science and polysci probably are outdated already.</p>
<p>I wonder how well received Facebook Classifieds will be. I'm tempted to sell a few books on there.</p>
<p>At my school, we have the option of selling textbooks directly to other students through a classified ad sort of list posted on the web by our school's Student Association. I sell my books for lower than the used price at the bookstore, but in return I receive more money for a given book than I would have at the bookstore.</p>
<p>yes we do at UB.</p>
<p>sometimes ya need to buy from the bookstore if your school uses a custom book. even though ive found my schools custom editions new directly from amazon for some classes.</p>
<p>use books99.com </p>
<p>to buy books. it's actually a pretty good search engine. searches across the major sites amazon, e-bay, blah, blah, blah, and they include shipping as well.</p>
<p>never ever buy books from the bookstore. NEVER!</p>
<p>just to some of you newbies. if you have the chance to buy international editions buy them. they are no different than US. i'm seriously not even sure why they call them that. also sometimes older editions are almost exactly like most current editions. be smart consumers. search it. first time make take a while and be tedious but it goes so much quickly later.</p>
<p>ok-</p>
<p>what about selling prices. I bought a book brand new for 100 and I want to sell it for 80, but its sold used on amazon for 25. would that price be to high?</p>
<p>"what about selling prices. I bought a book brand new for 100 and I want to sell it for 80, but its sold used on amazon for 25. would that price be to high?"</p>
<p>Yup. Way too high.</p>
<p>look for people at your school who want the book. it's easier to buy a book from a fellow student (immediate gratification!) than from online. and if they find the book on campus, chances are they won't look online and see that $25 book on amazon.
if that doesn't pan out, you're gonna have to lower your price to sell it online.</p>
<p>I've had some luck with books on campus, but that requires you to bring your books back to school and is kind of a pain in the butt trying to track people down.</p>
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Posts: 458 "what about selling prices. I bought a book brand new for 100 and I want to sell it for 80, but its sold used on amazon for 25. would that price be to high?"</p>
<p>Yup. Way too high. "</p>
<p>What would be a god price then?</p>
<p>probably around 40 dollars or so, maybe lower.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about using Amazon to sell back a few books that my school's bookstore wouldn't buy back. One is a Chem book that Amazon lists for $172.95 and I was thinking about asking $75-80 for it because it's practically like new (I don't do any type of marking in my books and take care of all my stuff very well). </p>
<p>Would that be a reasonable price to ask for it? I was thinking that asking for a bit under half wouldn't be so bad considering that Amazon takes commission and charges a few other fees, as well...but yeah, what do y'all think?</p>