Selling Books For Cash

hannahl987

Hi,

I have recently been using Music Magpie to sell old DVDs and CDs for cash. However, I have hundreds of old books that I no longer read and are just gathering dust. I would like to sell them to raise a bit of extra cash but do not want to use Ebay or Amazon Marketplace as it will be too time consuming to sell each book and post them off individually!

Are there any website which will accept books as a job lot or any other way I can get rid of them in one go?

Ant help would be fantastic!!

jwil

Hi Hannah,

Could you not advertise the whole lot on ebay as a job lot, collection only? Or there are people who advertise on ebay who will do the listing/posting/packing etc for you for a % of the takings.

Alternatively, we contacted a secondhand book dealer when we were clearing my MIL's house, and they took a load off us for pretty decent money.

Finally, what about taking them to a car boot sale - we find that a lot of dealers attend them around here, and so if you have popular authors/titles you'll get rid of quite a few as long as you aren't asking too much for them.

Good luck with it!

Jwil

Skint_Catt

Car Boot Sale is the easiest - or if you still read a lot why not try Read It Swap It?

dreamyd

Have you tried GreenMetropolis.com? It's a bit of of a faff putting in the ISBN number, but you can get about £3 per book (more if they are big, heavy or expensive). You do have to pack the books up yourself, but I've made about £50 so far which I treat as my book buying budget.

Reverbe

dreamyd wrote: »

Have you tried GreenMetropolis.com? It's a bit of of a faff putting in the ISBN number, but you can get about £3 per book (more if they are big, heavy or expensive). You do have to pack the books up yourself, but I've made about £50 so far which I treat as my book buying budget.

Dreamy tho you get £3 a book postage is at least £1.60 these days..:mad:

PrincessPeach_2

Postage is a pain, been trying to declutter for ages now (lots of books), sometimes you only just make the postage

Also try Amazon or Play - amazon gives you abt £2 for postage but they take off quite a bit on fees (unless you are a pro-seller but then you're paying a monthly amount).

Play includes postage in their prices and they take a fee too and if you want to take the cash out, they charge you a further 5% i think, unless you use the money to buy something else from their site.

Books are harder to clear.

If they are in good conditon's - what abt presents for family and friends?

Outdoorlass

I would car boot them, although be warned, people aren't willing to pay more than 50p generally.

orangesmartie

I have the same kind of problem. I want to sell last year's law textbooks (EU law, Intellectual Property, Land Law). although last year's books for me, some are still current editions.

Thing is, they are hugely heavy and most of them for UK postage costs over a fiver, never mind wrapping material. I thought about listing them on amazon yesterdaty but the fees charged combined with the rubbish postage hardly seems worth it, and I'd have to keep them hanging around until someone decided to buy. They are all in good condition (I never mark or highlight) and were expensive to buy (£30-£40), so I want at least some return on my money - even a fiver or so! I sold two on ebay last free listing day and unfortunately underestimated the cost of postage so was worse off by a couple of quid.

I did try Abebooks and others but they'll only give between £2-3 for some of the books and none of the others.

In previoous years I've donated them to the local library (in exchange for me using it to study in) only to find they'd sold them off, which I was rather cross at. The point of donating them was so some other person could have the benefit without shelling out the hundreds needed to get through the course.

I'm a distance learner, so its not like i can put notes up in the uni or anything.

Outdoorlass

Orange smartie, do you have a local free ads paper? Perhaps you could put an ad in three as I would imagine you would get some interest as the new starters will just be getting their book lists through. Maybe contact your local college and tell them what you have and do they have a notice board you could advertise them on.

HTH x

orangesmartie

Outdoorlass wrote: »

Orange smartie, do you have a local free ads paper? Perhaps you could put an ad in three as I would imagine you would get some interest as the new starters will just be getting their book lists through. Maybe contact your local college and tell them what you have and do they have a notice board you could advertise them on.

HTH x

hi outdoor lass - never gave the local paper a thought actually! I will give them a ring on Monday and see what they say. Thank you

Our nearest unis are Exeter and Plymouth, so I could give them a ring and see if they would put them on a noticeboard for me.

also, perhaps Gumtree?

Outdoorlass

Yeah if its free, I would do that for sure, theres always Ebay as well, although you will have fees to pay, you could list them as local pick up.