Do they havea music magpie site for books?

harveybobbles

I'm now getting fed up with boxes of books in every room of the house. I cant be arsed listing them on ebay anymore, so was wondering if any sites will buy them like musicmagpie doe with cds etc?

I have heard of www.greenmetropolis.com but it seems a bit faffy...

Crowqueen

Take them to your local Oxfam.

Even Music Magpie turn some items down, so you will be lucky to get a price for them tbh.

I even see book banks at my local tip - I wonder whether they are just pulped or something because stuffed in a bin like that they can't be in any decent condition when they come out .

Obviously_the_best

you could join https://www.bookcrossing.com, that's quite interesting, my book made it to turkey

harveybobbles

Crowqueen wrote: »

Take them to your local Oxfam.

I do enough charity work, thanks.

Crowqueen

Or you could look for local bookshops and offer them there for the price they pay for books. Any university town will have a range of bookshops, and places like Henley have a number of good s/h bookshops with reasonably high-brow stock. The only other place I know locally to me that even has a s/h bookshop is Newbury, and they don't look like they lack for stock.

Only trouble is most bookshops I've tried to sell to already have stock to last them for years, and the most I've ever got for anything in bulk is 7 euro when I was moving from Ireland back to the UK. Oxfam at least takes them off your hands in bulk for no extra effort.

You may unfortunately be out of luck, which means either a faff or having to offload them as a donation.

MissyCupCake

I have heard of greenmetroplis but it seems a bit faffy...

I used this website for a bit a couple of years ago, and it was faffy. £3.75 flat rate for a paperback (you could charge more for hardbacks) but this was inclusive of p&p. You then list all your books and waited for an email to arrive to say someone had bought one.....I think I sold 2 books in a month before giving it up as a bad job.....

Crowqueen

It's a shame we're not in Poland.

- the secondhand book market is extremely vibrant. No such thing as charity shops, and the shops I've seen have ranged from the lovely antiquarian shops with shelf after shelf of old tomes to sheds in the back of someone's courtyard with books stacked to head-height where you ask the guy what you're after and he looks to see what he's got. Although the s/h clothes shops (which also flourish) get their wares in bulk from dealers buying unwanted stuff in the west (probably these Cash4Clothes businesses) and don't buy clothes up front, the dealers usually purchase from people bringing stuff in on spec rather than keep a huge backlog of stock.

- Every autumn with people going back to school, used textbooks are bought and sold in the back rooms of bookshops which also sell them new. Kids over there have to buy their own schoolbooks (as they do in most countries, in fact) and so academic books of any value, even art monographs, are in demand.

- English language books are in huge demand. I used to go back and forth by coach rather than air, and I used to stuff my suitcase full of old books from our house to sell over there. I used to make £20-£30 on each caseload (obviously only selling off my unwanted items), which due to the exchange rate meant I was rolling in it.

However, the trade-off over there (and the reason this market is so buoyant) is that new books, even in the local language, are phenomenally expensive - they are the same price as they are over here, but people are on a fraction of our salaries, which means it is a bit like paying £30 for the average new bestseller paperback. I don't know how vibrant the online business is, but I guess without a local Amazon site or a version of eBay/competing auction sites - there are a couple but having looked they are not incredibly busy - the options for selling online are fairly limited.

jwil

There is this site http://www.fatbrain.co.uk/sell-books/

I've never used it, but the last time I tried they didn't have any of the books I listed on there. I've just tried a book that I've got sat next to me which I sold on amazon today, and they are not buying it due to insufficient demand.

I don't know exactly how it works or the charges, but what about fulfilled by amazon?

I sell all my books on amazon - I find it easier than ebay. Where they are not worth listing, I car boot them. We have a lot of book dealers around here who will snap the popular titles up.

ThinkingOfLinking

I've been selling on Greenmetropolis for more than 3 years and haven't had any problems at all. I'd recommend it in fact, as you're able to charge for postage and also GM have an Amazon account so you get a fair few sales via Amazon anyway as they put your stuff on Amazon as well as on their own site. I've made up to £100 in a single month selling my old books.

Crowqueen

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

I've been selling on Greenmetropolis for more than 3 years and haven't had any problems at all. I'd recommend it in fact, as you're able to charge for postage and also GM have an Amazon account so you get a fair few sales via Amazon anyway as they put your stuff on Amazon as well as on their own site. I've made up to £100 in a single month selling my old books.

Can you sign up without a credit card? Sounds an ideal option for me if that's possible.

ThinkingOfLinking

Crowqueen wrote: »

Can you sign up without a credit card? Sounds an ideal option for me if that's possible.[/QUOTEY

Yes, you can. I don't own any credit cards. You will need to provide bank details so you can be paid any money from sales though.:p