Amazon and old uni text books

Numpty_2

How much?????

Obviously I need to sell them but a number of my books were close to £50 looking at what other people are selling them for. These down and that's Christmas paid! :T

piglet6

How much?!?!:eek:

Blimey - I bet you never appreciated them that much while you were using them...!!:rolleyes:

Get them on there, kiddo!!:p

Piglet

Bambywamby

I have found text books sell really well...as do diet books :eek:

Only been selling on Amazon for 2 weeks and have made £60 ye ha!!!


Good luck xx

teapot2

Hi Numpty,

good luck with selling them - its a good time of year for Uni + text books but they do need to be up to date editions. There's an excellent board on this forum: 'Ebay & other auctions, Car Boot and Jumble Sales Board' which has loads of advice for new sellers in the first posting.

I found it really helpful and started selling on Amazon after reading it - been doing so since April and have sold quite a few books and CDs that were just gathering dust.

Hope it works for you & the good thing is there's no upfront fee for lisitng and it doesn't cost owt if they don't sell

Teapot

aimme13

I was amazed, just got my book list from college and went straight to amazon, thought i would do it the dfw way!!.........found out they were all selling for £2 cheaper than the RRP, so basically add postage and they would be more expensive :-(.........have to buy them new, but will keep them in mint condition and sell them at the end of the year:-)

frugglewump

aimme13 wrote:

I was amazed, just got my book list from college and went straight to amazon, thought i would do it the dfw way!!.........found out they were all selling for £2 cheaper than the RRP, so basically add postage and they would be more expensive :-(.........have to buy them new, but will keep them in mint condition and sell them at the end of the year:-)

Do you not have a textbook sale on campus? The SU usually organises one for 2nd years to sell to 1st years & so on .

littlestar1981

I agree with teapot2, it's a great time to sell them. I listed a whole range of books 2 weeks ago (mainly psychology books and teaching books) and have made £200!!!

Just make sure you always put the edition if applicable as the ISBN's can sometimes bring up a pic of a slightly later edition.

xx-Tina-xx

I'm pretty impressed with how easy Textbooks sell on Amazon. I've managed to make about £100 this past week.. The only problem is postage.. Don't underprice yourself initially, because even though you get a postage allowance from Amazon, this really isn't enough to cover the cost of buying packaging/posting heavy textbooks etc... But if you're sure you'll never need the books again, then any profit is better than a pile of medical textbooks that had been sitting under my bed for the last few years! Good Luck!!!

smartie1976

i've sold three books in the last two weeks, but the fees work out at around 23%, and then I have to count in the postage.

I am finding amazon much less lucrative than eBay.

soolin

I've just bought about 13 text books on Amazon. Some were £35 new and I got them for £4-£8 each. One I even got for 80p and the seller must have made a huge loss as it cost £3+ to post. I also bought another one RRP only £12.99 and with most sellers selling at £8-£10, and I found a copy at £2 which I bought. However within a few minutes I got an email from Amazon saying the book had been withdrawn from sale and was no longer on my order..I've never come across that before.

Soo

soolin

smartie1976 wrote:

i've sold three books in the last two weeks, but the fees work out at around 23%, and then I have to count in the postage.

I am finding amazon much less lucrative than eBay.

I prefer to sell on ebay as I get much better prices, but Amazon is so very useful to keep stuff listed and just wait for that one buyer to come along. I love getting the 'sold despatch now' emails as well :j