Easiest way to sell books

brineybay

Thanks Compound, I tried FatBrain who offered £4.50 for the Japanese Shinto book! Only thing is FatBrain requires a minimum of £25 in the basket, so I'll have to hope they accept more of my books (they didn't want Steven Covey).

GymJim

Could try places like bookex.co.uk? Looks to be for students but you might be able to sell to some student for their course?

steveproxy

I have a few textbooks that I know I won't need again. So what's a good site to sell them on?

Are ebay and amazon viable places ?

sarahdianna

i will also suggest that sell books in bundles or in a list. and it will give savings to you as well as to buyers

rainbow12

Just wanted to say thanks to the poster who suggested We Buy Books. I recently sent a couple of boxes of books to Amazon for trade in and had another couple to send. I compared both We Buy Books and Amazon and managed to make a lot more money. In general We Buy Books was offering more for most books (particularly the ones that Amazon offer 25p for) but Amazon was offering more on others.
So I would recommend people compare each book on both sites, it isnt really a lot more hassle as you can just cut and paste the barcode once typed in.
Now I need to try and find a way to get rid of the books that arent accepted by any sites. Preferably for money, failing that to a charity shop.

onlyroz

I tried to sell a few hundred paperbacks at a car boot sale, and I sold about 6 books. In the end I took them all to the charity shop. I think you'll have to accept that the market for physical books is disappearing. You're unlikely to sell them online for a profit because of the postage costs, unless they're high-value items like school or university text-books.

MatLoweRN

I think that the book buying webites that are promoted on MSE are a bit of a waste of time unless you have lots and lots to get rid of. Case in point: I recently logged on to one of the recommended ones and typed in the ISBN number of one of my books out of shear curiosity. I was offered 12 pence.

I put the same book on ebay for 99p and got £53 for it. And no it is not rare, not out of print freely available on Amazon and other places for it's RRP of £14.99 and what's more I originally bought it from a bargain bookshop for £4.99. As it was a 99p start the listing was free and Ebay took their share of £5.30.

phil09

I've just had my first Amazon customer for my old uni textbook

I did value it on the book trade in sites yesterday:
zapper: £8.37
webuybooks: no demand
Amazon trade-in: £5.00
fatbrain: £8.80
abe: £6.60

I think after a while if my other books don't sell on the Marketplace then I will eventually just trade them all in.

droopsnoot

Every time I look at doing this, it's the postage that kills it off. It seems that by weighing an average IT-related textbook, the postage is always going to be way higher than the £2.80-odd that everyone seems to be able to charge on Amazon marketplace and I haven't figured out how that works yet. Surely everyone there isn't just taking them into work and using the office franking machine to get free postage?

As for paperback fiction, I buy a lot of it myself as quite an avid [STRIKE]time-waster[/STRIKE] reader and I find that a lot of people are asking too much for used books. Most of mine come from the library sale table at 30p each (20% up on last year's prices), so to go to a car boot sale and be asked £1 or £1.50 is pushing it a little for me. I may be different, though, because I'm not looking for a specific book, I'm happy to just look along the table, have a look at the resume and see if it sounds like it might be good, and I'm risking nothing at that price. Sometimes the car boot does come up trumps, though - a recent nice find was an as-new Clive Cussler hardback at the princely sum of 10p.

JayPritchet

I sold all of my texbooks (and some of my friends) after university but was amazed at how much of the list price they took, not to mention the cost of delivery as they were so heavy.