<p>my school's bookstore sent me an email on how much my books value if i want to sell it back.. and they're so damn cheap! like i bought a book for $120 new.. and they're buying it back for $40... another book i bought for $40... they want only $6.. what the hell!?</p>
<p>thats total ripoff.. and they are reselling the books at a high price..
say the 120 book.. i sell it back for 40.. they will sell it for 70.. that is totally unfair.</p>
<p>is there any place online that gives you good value for your books?
where do most students sell their books?</p>
<p>$40 is pretty good, my school is much lower than that for a $120 book/</p>
<p>I suggest the amazon marketplace as the best of the best, thogh I don't sell my books, going to keep the for life. i guess thats what most engineering students do.</p>
<p>Welcome to the real world. Businesses, and that includes college bookstores, can't operate at a loss. Since they probably bought the book new for 50% of sticker, they aren't going to buy it <em>back</em> at 70% of stickers ... or even 50%.</p>
<p>Some of the online booksellers have much lower overhead and can do a little better on price.</p>
<p>I sell mine back at the bookstore if I bought them used online and usually get about what I paid for them. Or else in your case, I highly reccommend Amazon marketplace. It will sell really fast if you price it a few dollars below the lowest one, easy to use, secure, etc.</p>
<p>ok i just checked amazon for that 120 book and they are selling it at $70
even the used ones
so that is a lot better than the $40 from my school</p>
<p>but i've never done this stuff before, what do i need?
open account, what kinda bank do i need, and how do i ship?</p>
<p>Amazon tells you about all that stuff, actually. i think whatever you use to buy things online will work. (visa, mastercard etc) Make sure you ship in a clean box and stuff and be courteous to your buyers because they are gonna rate you (and if you get low ratings, nobody's gonna buy anything)</p>
<p>Find a friend that is taking the course next semester. I once offered to buy a textbook off of a friend for inbetween what she would get back for it and what I would have paid for it used in the bookstore. Both sides win!</p>
<p>Of course, it doesn't work for every class...</p>
<p>"Im so mad becuase i spent 525 dollars on books and all i got back through my bookstore was 55.25"</p>
<p>thats damn true.. so amazon is it?
how do u ship stuff then.. where do u get the boxes n how about the fees?
could i just go up to a fed-ex kinda store with the textbook in my hands n send it?</p>
<p>Find the item you're looking to sell. If you have a regular account this is the only way to do so. Once you find the item you're going to 'sell' your book. since you don't have seller's account you'll go through the initial setup which will require you to have a bank account to wire the money to and other info. If you do it right away this will usually take very little time to setup (not the same day but within the week your bank account should be verified and connected to Amazon).</p>
<p>Amazon does charge commission. But it also gives you some money to cover shipping expenses. You'll never see the money physically but you'll see the reduction.</p>
<p>Once you've placed the item on sale you'll right a short summary about its condition. The more detailed and honest the better. Last thing you want is a ****ed off buyer.</p>
<p>Once a buyer sells the item they will get e-mailed by Amazon saying someone has bought your item. You will have 2 days after the item is bought to ship it out. If you don't ship it on that time you're going to be screwed. This almost happened to me once and I just refunded the buyer's money which in reality is at no loss to you.</p>
<p>Make sure when you to go the post office you send it off as the buyer specified or whatever options you've left that the buyer has picked. You can offer to ship standard or express among other things I think. I do standard since it's the cheapest.</p>
<p>As far as shipping the item you're going to pay for the postage and all that. You have to prepare the item in a box or whatever you're using to send it out. Sometimes the post office has stuff so you can ship out the book depending on its size. Once you send it out to the buyer make sure to tell the buyer that you've mailed it already. And you should be good to go.</p>
<p>That's how it's generally done.</p>
<p>I sold a couple of AP prep books and SAT prep books on Amazon. And I've bought some used books on Amazon. hell I ended up paying real cheap for a math book that was claimed 'used' but in reality was brand new. I was really surprised at how cheap I got the textbook.</p>
<p>It really isn't that hard. This is how it's done whenever you sell things online for the most part. And you can make good money off doing this (for more than just books).</p>
<p>It's worked out for me because my school has a mailroom who will box it up and mail it for you. Just have to pay the few bucks, and it's right by the parking lot...</p>
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<p>Why would your school encourage you selling your books back elsewhere?</p>