selling books

[luvMickey72]

Does anyone know a website that you can sell books? I have a ton to get rid of!

 

[Que_Sarah_Sarah]

Amazon.com. You can sell the books and sometimes you can get amazon credit for them instead. They give you a credit for shipping and their fee is very minimal. If you send the books media mail you get even more!

 

[cornflake]

Half.com is linked to ebay.com but specializes more in books than ebay does.

 

[kermit116]

Second vote for Amazon

 

[karice2]

I use a couple of different options. You can trade them in on swagbucks and get swagpoints for them and swap them for amazon gift cards. I have also used cash for books. The only thing about swagbucks is that you have to use the ISBN number.

I am also a member of booksfree where I can rent books like netflix. I have traded some in to get a credit to use on books that I want to keep.

Hope this helps.

 

[erincon23]

Do your homework on any of these sites. Amazon, for example, gives you a standard credit for shipping (I think it's $3.99), no matter how many books someone buys from you in one order. A lot of people put books up on Amazon for really REALLY low prices (I've seen 1 cent) and make their money on the difference between that $3.99 shipping (minus fees) and what it actually costs to ship the book, which can be less than $1 for a paperback. So you have to look at what other people are offering the same book for when you're pricing. I've sold several books on Amazon, mostly larger coffee-table-type books, but I also have many many more that just sit there and haven't sold in the four years they've been listed. Depending on what type of books they are, you may be better donating them to your library's used book sale and taking the tax deduction, putting them in for credit to a used-book store, or selling them at a garage sale.

 

[daughtersrus]

I've sold text books and old Life and Time magazines on Amazon for a few years without any problems.

 

[vaDisneyGuy]

I use half.com or just eBay and have sold many books that way.

 

[sorul82?]

or selling them at a garage sale.

Around here, folks won't pay more than 25 cents for a book because they are going to turn around and sell it on Amazon.

 

[adoucet]

Bump

 

[SweetPeasMom2]

paperbackswap.com is a site you can swap them. You register the ones you have. Then if someone requests it, you mail it to them. You get a point/credit for that. Then you can use your points/credits to get books from others. You aren't making any money but it's a way to get rid of books and get some you'd like to read as well.

 

[sorul82?]

More questions about selling on Amazon:

1. What are some do's and don'ts?
2. Can you sell books that have a library stamp?
3. How do you know if a book is a collectible?
4. I keep seeing some about mass somethinganother?