Textbook Selling

[Radiant_Maelstrom]

So I finished my classes for this semester and want to sell my old textbook. There are two options that I have and I'd like to ask what would be the best one. The first option is to sell it online to chegg (considered selling it on e-bay but I have no rep), the second is to sell it locally to student that will use it for their course.

[Ysh]

I do not buy any text book in university and would advice you to do this one as well if you can manage it. Due to this, I do not sale any text book, but I can imagine the following from my brain and selling other items in the past:

Person Sale
+ Immediate
+ Do not pay shipping fee
+ No middle man so likely higher price for sale
- Harder to find buyer
- Bad man can rob you

Internet Sale to Resalesman
+ Guaranteed to sale it to resalesman company
- Resalesman company must make some profit, so you get less price
- Bad post office can rob you

eBay Sale to Common Man
+ Easier to find buyer than in person
- Harder to find buyer than resalesman
- Pays some fee to eBay
- Paypal is shit
- Pay shipping fee
- Bad post office can rob you

I think if you can find seller in person, this is best option. I do not think having no reputation for eBay will matters. eBay is very buyer favored, so it is hard to get ripped off by bad seller. Means other men will trust you even if no reputation because of eBay backing sales. Good luck.

[bitza]

sell locally. a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush

[jordancoles]

Your program likely has a facebook group for the students of the current semester
If you're able to request membership you could post your textbooks there

[MagicManICT]

I had a Books2Go locally that dealt in used textbooks. It was just easier than trying to find a buyer for the books I didn't want. Now, I'd rent from Amazon or my bookstore (assuming they do rentals). My daughter is in college, and I talker her into this. You come out a bit better than the buy used an sell back cycle.

Otherwise, there are several online services that will buy used textbooks and may even cover the shipping. (Last time I looked at books2go's website, they did, but that's been a good 10 years ago.)

@jordancoles: Man, back in my day, it was posting announcements on the bulletin board and being lucky if you sold them all. This is much easier, but I don't touch facebook, and know a lot of people that don't or have abandoned accounts.

[Radiant_Maelstrom]

Update: So it seems that the textbook is worth slightly more than 50% of their original on average? How good is that for other campuses bookstore buyback policy in general?

[jordancoles]

Update: So it seems that the textbook is worth slightly more than 50% of their original on average? How good is that for other campuses bookstore buyback policy in general?

If you can't find a buyer and if you don't want to hold onto the books then 50%~ isn't terrible I'd say

I kept my textbooks because they're full of counseling techniques and other cool shit but a lot of people don't have much reason to hold onto theirs when they are done their courses.
Most people who sell to others can sell for 60% or so, but any more than 70% would make it fairly difficult to find a buyer ... It really just comes down to how long you want to hold onto the books and how long you're willing to wait on a decent offer.

Sell it to the book store if you want some quick cash

[Radiant_Maelstrom]

So I gotten one textbook to someone for about 65% of the price and the rest went to the campus (53%) since the sell price was going to go down and they are slightly outdated editions. Overall, I think I had a decent deal with what I had.

[Ysh]

So I gotten one textbook to someone for about 65% of the price and the rest went to the campus (53%) since the sell price was going to go down and they are slightly outdated editions. Overall, I think I had a decent deal with what I had.

Congratulations on mighty success. I think we can do some celebrations for this one. You can gift to us all in this thread some subscription token from new currency acquisition.

[Radiant_Maelstrom]

Sorry but all profits has to go towards the "Pay off Radiant's college tuition" Foundation.