Selling Uni Books

sarahh31

Hi,
I finished my uni degree last summer and i am having a clearout - i have 3 years worth of books from my BA Hons degree in English. I have novels/set texts and theory texts.

Anyone have any advice on the best place to sell these books?

Many Thanks :T

mathsstudent

If you know anyone still at uni, you can always ask them to put up a few notices around the department, see if anyone wants them.
I have used amazon marketplace and the Play.com equivalent to sell some of mine, both were easy to use, but you do have to pay them a fair amount of commission and then you have to arrange postage on top, so if you can sell them within the uni, then that's always easier I think.

scubaangel

I sold a few of my old uni books on Greenmetropolis, you dont get much for them but postage is covered and you have more space once theyre sold.

But I would tend to agree, if you can sell them in uni, posters on notice boards in the relevant dept usually get a good response.

etherz

If you can wait, I recommend selling books just before/at the start of the academic year, as there are more people looking to buy the books at this time.

I recommend you dont sell on ebay, but Amazon, Play.com etc.. instead, as they advertise the book until it is sold.

When selling on Amazon, check how much postage will be first, as you dont get to set your own postage costs. I have sold a heavy book (old edition) for £2 on Amazon, only to make a loss overall when I had posted it.

I have also used https://www.sellstudentstuff.com too, lots of books and hits the target market ;-)

Best results I have had are when selling around the university, putting posters up on the doors of the lecture theatres where that course is being taught, or posting in the forum for that module if your uni uses forums. Of course now you have finished this may be a LOT of work.

At my uni they have a big sale of students books at the start of the year which is great, and sold £45,000 worth of books this september. You give your books into the SU, with your uni number written in the front cover. They organise the sale and collect the money. You go back the weekend after and collect your cash (no comission obviously) and any unsold books (or donate them to the library).

hth

davidster

I avoided the problem of having worthless textbooks at the end of this year by renting them! I used UnibookRental.com and the service was decent! The textbooks were cheap and they will even get the book you need if they dont already have it....then they post it to you and you send it back after the semester! They even plant a tree when you buy or rent online....me and 4 of my friends did it and had no probs...