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Online textbook buyback?

post #1 of 8
6/11/10 at 5:52pm
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Have any of you sold your textbooks online? If so where and what were the results?  

 

I never sold a book back to the bookstore in undergrad unless they paid me $30 or more so I have a fair number of textbooks and now I want to sell them in an attempt to scrounge up money for an SM3 purchase.  I placed a "buyback order" with a bookstores.com and have yet to send in my books because I don't know if this site (and others like it) is a scam or a legit business.  The part that scares me is it says on the site that they destroy the book if they don't buy it back rather than return it, and the other sites I checked seem to have similar policies.  

 

I think I'm just gonna send one book in and test it out but it got me wondering if anyone on here has ever used one of the sites and if so, with what degree of success?

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post #2 of 8
6/11/10 at 6:35pm

Half.com! 

 

Super simple to use, much higher returns

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post #3 of 8
6/11/10 at 9:02pm

 

I've always used http://www.textbooks.com. Click Sell Textbooks and enter the ISBNs of your books to get a quote.

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post #4 of 8
6/12/10 at 10:37am
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Thanks.  I'll check those out.

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post #5 of 8
6/13/10 at 3:32am

I've sold a couple books to www.textbooksrus.com and it went rather smoothly.

 

I didn't discover this until last semester, but I now rent books from www.Chegg.com.

 

Basically you rent your books there, they ship it to you, and at the end of your semester, you go back into the site and print a return shipping label (which is already included in the price of your textbook rental) and ship it back to them. This process went really smooth, so i'll most likely be using them again next semester.

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post #6 of 8
6/13/10 at 5:40am

If you got a current edition book, sell it on amazon, much higher returns.

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post #7 of 8
6/13/10 at 8:03am

Half.com would be my recommendation, but I'd also check local campuses and see if the classes use the same text and same edition. If so, you might be able to get an even better return selling directly to students who need the book and want it fast and cheap. I personally still have all of my technical textbooks that I used in college and grad school but I loan them out ever year while they are still relevant to the classes being taught.

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post #8 of 8
6/13/10 at 8:19am

Amazon or Half.com works. Whenever I had to sell textbooks I would use that as the bookstore are clear ripoffs.

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