Selling text books?

MummyDrusilla

Does anyone know where I might be able to sell my old university text books?

They're old editions and so i doubt will sell on ebay (though I will list them) but just wondered if anyone had found anywhere that will take them for some cash?

I'm reluctant to charity shop them when they cost me between £20-50 a pop if I can possibly avoid it!

Thanks

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Avon2001

When it comes to selling what you paid is largely irrelevant (which can work both ways), the question is: are the books saleable now. Given that you say they are old editions and you doubt they will sell on Ebay, I suspect they're of minimal value now. You could try Amazon, Gumtree and posting adverts in Students' Unions or local schools (although it's a bit early in the year for people to be thinking about University reading lists), but to be honest a charity shop may be your most reasonable option for clearing some space. Alternatively you could try offering them to a local school.

flora_proactive

I recently sold some of my old university textbook and some of my husbands. I used amazon trade in and a website called webuybooks . co.uk I had both websites open in two different tabs and added the books to each and then removed the lowest paying ones. Managed to get 60 quid from amazon and 20 quid from webuybooks and bearing in mind the books were all computing and programming books from 2002 - 2006 so all very old ones for the technology changes I wasnt going to complain

pillion

Are you sure you don't want to keep them? I got rid of mine to create some space and have regretted it ever since.

b1505

Amazon Trade-in seems quite good for textbooks as does Zapper.

MummyDrusilla

Thanks all.

Avon2001 - I suspect you're right about them not being worth an awful lot now with them being superceded by newer editions.

Pillion - DH and I did the same degree and met each other after buying all our own books, so we have a lot of duplicates. I'm selling the duplicates and the pure chemistry books which we never looked at during our degrees, let alone now we're in the real world!!!!!! I doubt we'll miss those much, but thanks for thinking of us. It's a shame you miss yours now .

Shall check out all these sites.

Thanks everyone
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TeresaF

I recently sold some of my old course books through 3 sites already mentioned: Amazon trade-in, webuybooks and zapper. Made about £50 overall and some space in the bottom of the wardrobe! I would advise having all 3 websites open and checking the price of each book on them all - it can vary a lot between sites.
Good luck :T

Crispy796

I had some text books left over when I left college. Ebay fees and paypal fees would have resulted in very little money back so I listed them on amazon and used books. All bar a couple of older editions sold (even some that were 2 editions out of date!). The remaining books were then given to the college library as a gift - they were really greatful to receive them. I made a few pounds and apart from the hassle of posting them, I found it an easy way of clearing space.

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red-foxx

I have used Abebooks & Amazon trade-in - both seem pretty good, and both provide printable postage labels. I didn't get a huge amount for the books, although in some cases with Amazon more than I had anticipated. With Amazon they give you a voucher code to buy from the website.

gastronomix

Is there a Uni or college in the area doing a similar course? If so might be worth dropping by and putting something on a notice board.

PasturesNew

When I sold some general books I preferred Amazon to ebay because it took me an hour to take a photograph of the book and write the description and choose categories etc.... whereas on Amazon I just have to input the ISBN number and it takes about 2 minutes tops/book. Once on the Amazon marketplace, they were also listed for 2 months, as opposed to ebay's shorter listing time. I ended up selling one book on ebay as it yielded the best result there, rest did best on Amazon.

I'm about to sell a bunch more books and have a list of sites to look at .... but it's the hassle of packing/sending that makes me so slack so far