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Best Place to sell Text books

Ok so H2B and I are looking to buy our first house. So this means that we need to have a huge de-clutter and earn a few pennies.

I sell a lot of stuff in ebay but was wondering where the best place would be to sell text books?

I have a lot of text books from doing my Management Diploma that I have no use for and I hardly used them! Need to get rid of them as they take up a lot of space.

Any ideas of the best place to sell them?
Turning our clutter to top up our house deposit: £3000/£303.05 we're on our way!

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  • Try zapper.

    I sold a stats text book from 15 years ago to them and they gave me £10 for it. You have to send them a list of at least 25 items (books, cd,DVD) and they won't accept everything. You just input the barcodes of the items.

    HTH
  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,622 Forumite
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    sold a load of old Uni books for my daughter on amazon , be prepared that some may not sell until the start of a term and some may no longer be current
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  • whitelabel
    whitelabel Posts: 2,217 Forumite
    zapper offered me 30p for a heavy text book not that old..
    I think they compare prices against amazon current selling inc 3rd party and then offer a 3rd as they offered me £3.30 for a book that has the lowest price of £10 on amazon

    ive listed it myself for £8.50 to see if it sells and a fiver for text book... if not
    may consider the zapper prices
  • I'd try Amazon, Amazon Trade (gives the money as Amazon credit) or Ebay. I've had luck in the past with all of them :)
  • hermum
    hermum Posts: 7,123 Forumite
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    I tried several of the places that buy books yesterday & most offered me 30p a book, the most was £1 something, all are listed on amazon for between £5-15.
    I'd definitely try ebay or amazon first, or if you're living in a uni town maybe Gumtree, preloved or similar.
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