How to Get The Best Price When Selling Textbooks Online
You can recover some of your textbook cost by selling the books after your semester has finished. If your college bookstore is not offering as much money as you think it should be for your textbooks, you can look online. General book marketplaces allow you to sell your books directly to a buyer, while other sites purchase the textbooks and handle the sales process itself.
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Things You'll Need
- A PC;
- printer (for prepaid postage labels);
- packaging for mailing books
Instructions
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Make a list of your textbooks with the title, ISBN and general condition of the book. Try to be as accurate as possible with rips, tears or notes within the book.
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Check an online textbook aggregation service, such as Bigwords.com, to check many online textbook buyers at once.
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Check Amazon.com and other general online marketplaces for your textbook sale prices. These sites do not buy textbooks directly, but they do show your listing on the textbook page.
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Double-check the best online sales prices with those offered by your school or other students at your school. Confirm that the online sales price is the best you can get for your books.
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