Anybody used these sites to recyle books for cash

clumsy_cupcake

hi, want to sell some of the mny books i have. will b doing a bootsale in april when they start up but thought i would get some extra cash now.

Has anyone used ay of these sites? dont want to send my books to a dodgy site.


http://www.fatbrain.co.uk/

http://www.back2cash.co.uk

or can reccomend any sites? thanks

LittleBlueFishy

Hiya clumsy_cupcake,

I do a fairbit of book selling myself - usually on amazon and ebay and sometimes on some student websites too (loads of textbooks in my collection!).

I've not heard overly great things about fatbrain - they don't seem to have the widest ISBN collection so after manually typing in loads of barcodes only a small percentage is recognised. Still, if you have the ISBNs on a spreadsheet then it won't be too much of a problem. What's really nice is the free postage so at least there isn't an initial outlay.

back2cash is a lot slower - they manually assess your collection and then agree over email what they want. You then post it to them and then collect the refund of the postage. Their prices are generally lower but they seem to have more of a database for books. A few friends have used them before and because they have a decent customer service unit you feel like you build a relationship and are getting a better deal.

Bear in mind there isn't the greatest amount of money to be made (usually only pence, although hardbacks can sell for more). Personally I find it easier to individually sell on the larger sites but I guess it all depends on what your circumstances are.

HTH
Tathie

Sixer

I haven't used either of the ones you mention, but I have found https://www.webuybooks.co.uk to be very good.

clumsy_cupcake

thanks for the replies, someody just told me about green metropolis but because you have to wait for somebody to buy the book may be a slow option

Sally22_2

I used http://zapper.co.uk/ to sell my books too and they gave me reasonable prices and seem to have quite a wide range of ISBNs. They took 80% of mine.

clumsy_cupcake

Sally22 wrote: »

I used http://zapper.co.uk/ to sell my books too and they gave me reasonable prices and seem to have quite a wide range of ISBNs. They took 80% of mine.

thanks but after entering 15 books and none of them being accepted i gave up:rotfl:

silverjay

Sally22 wrote: »

I used http://zapper.co.uk/ to sell my books too and they gave me reasonable prices and seem to have quite a wide range of ISBNs. They took 80% of mine.

Many thanks just had £21.70 worth of books/cds accepted :T

Sally22_2

Ah sorry to hear that at least it helped someone :rotfl:

MummyMummy_2

so glad i read this i have about a thousand books that i either need to get rid of by selling, giving to charity or binning so some of these sites should help me

sparklejadey

Sally22 wrote: »

I used http://zapper.co.uk/ to sell my books too and they gave me reasonable prices and seem to have quite a wide range of ISBNs. They took 80% of mine.

Thanks for this - had a few of books sitting unsold on my green metropolis account and Zapper have quoted me £14 for the ones I have checked so far and any they don't accept are going off to the charity shop.

merlot123

clumsy_cupcake wrote: »

thanks but after entering 15 books and none of them being accepted i gave up:rotfl:

Did the enter the ISBN number and not the barcode.

I have just entered 15 and its accepted 10 of mine, only another 400 to check which are currently sitting in the garage awaiting for a carboot. Guess what I'll be doing on Hogmanay:rotfl::rotfl:

Thank you to Sally for posting the link to the Zapper site, I had tried other sites but they weren't interested in them, so pleased to have read this thread.

merlot123