Selling books

bartelbe

I wouldn't bother, 99% of all the books in existance have no value. The internet doesn't make them worth something, in fact it has had the opposite result.

Amazon, for example, allows automatic repricing. So everyone sets their repricer to sell at the lowest value to get the sale. The net result is virtually every book is priced at a 1p secondhand. The only way to make money out of secondhand books is to either sell only very rare books, or have an enormous warehouse and sell in bulk. That way a 1p a book profitable..

Amazon is awful for small sellers, but the autorepricers make it a great place to buy books. Occassionally a seller screws up, and something valueable gets repriced to nothing.

RHemmings

With there being a £2.80 delivery charge, there should still be the possibility of selling the books for £1 or £2 each if you can avoid having to post them. If the OP is a 'vetstudent', then is there a noticeboard where they could offer to sell the books at their uni?

Kite2010

Most books are worthless, but it's worth checking to see if Amazon are offering trade-ins on the ISBN numbers (even getting 30p back for a hard-back is better than nothing), I believe Amazon are doing a deal where if you trade in £15 worth of books, they give you an extra £5 free.

For a basic seller, Sell a book for 1p and you will get £1.46 back, which is fine if the book you sold is a large letter and is under 250grams, then you have made 36p (£1.10 2nd class). Deduct cost of packaging and any other costs in getting to the post-office and you will find yourself out of pocket.

The books which hold their value are educational books or non-fiction books in a niche market. So best way is to check to see if you've got a gem in your pile, see how many you can sell to Amazon and with the rest see if a charity shop wants them (If the shop is selling them for 10p than it's a sign they have too many)

Worst is the FBA sellers whom can sell under £2.81 barrier.

magic57

rossireps wrote: »

http://www.webuybooks.co.uk/

I've used this site three times now and they are great. But it is mainly non-fiction books that they accept so I doubt they would take romance books. I agree a boot sale is probably best if you have other stuff to sell as well.

spookymulder

Started selling on Amazon yesterday.

So far, since yesterday, I have sold two books - both at £2.00 each.

The fees on Amazon are high but you do receive the postage credits so from two sellers paying £4.80 each my bank account will be credited £6.20.

I receive a profit of £2.10 after I have paid my postage costs. This still works out better than the money I usually receive for selling books on Ebay.

Although, I have done quite well on Ebay this week as well ... £34.00 so far paid into my bank account and a lot more bidders biddiing.