College Students & Textbooks...
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my school had a book exchange event every quarter which was organized by the students association themselves so i used to sell my books there. i got a good amount back for all my books and it was super easy (so check if there's something like that at your school).
on-campus and off-campus buybacks are a rip off!! it's even worse when they are overstocked with certain textbooks, they will buy it back at a really low low price.
best bet is to sell online at sites like amazon.com like everyone suggested. the site is super easy to use and quick! good luck!
on-campus and off-campus buybacks are a rip off!! it's even worse when they are overstocked with certain textbooks, they will buy it back at a really low low price.
best bet is to sell online at sites like amazon.com like everyone suggested. the site is super easy to use and quick! good luck!
Well, it's been a LONG time since I've sold textbooks back, and I think it was before half.com was even around!
Here's my "old school" method: I would always make a list of books that I had available to sell and post them on a flier. I'd sell the books for just a little under the "Used" book price in the bookstore and make little "flags" with my email on it on the bottom. I'd post them outside the division and near vending machines. I'd work with the buyer via email, then meet on campus somewhere.
In most cases, I was able to sell them to someone else on campus and was paid cash.
Here's my "old school" method: I would always make a list of books that I had available to sell and post them on a flier. I'd sell the books for just a little under the "Used" book price in the bookstore and make little "flags" with my email on it on the bottom. I'd post them outside the division and near vending machines. I'd work with the buyer via email, then meet on campus somewhere.
In most cases, I was able to sell them to someone else on campus and was paid cash.
i would ask if i could post flyers in a common area. & sell them.
at my school, since it's small, every so often, there will be day & the hours posted in the break room designated for selling or trading text books.
at my school, since it's small, every so often, there will be day & the hours posted in the break room designated for selling or trading text books.
Yes books are very expensive and the buy back program at my school only pays pennies for books that I hardly even mark in. I usually post flyers, but any books that are a part of my major I keep.
I sell mine back through the campus bookstore. However, I know that I am really lucky because our bookstore buys our books back from us for about 80% of the original price of what we paid. Sure it's isn't the same, but I've always found half.com and ebay and amazon to be just major pains in the butt.
I buy mine all online between half.com, amazon.com, and abebooks.com. I sell them back on half.com. If you ever need to buy a key code or program that comes on a cd when you buy the textbook, you can usually buy it from the publisher directly. My spanish key code was $60 in the store and $30 from the publisher. I also needed one for a math class and got that from the publisher cheaper as well. I saved over $300 last semester by buying online! Average semester book costs are $500-$600 from the book store.
across the street from my campus we have a bookstore called PJ's where they buy your books back and sell them for cheaper than the school. Thats where I take mine.
Lol this is probably cheating, but for first year textbooks I stuck them around where I knew the first years were for orientation and stuff. I didn't really lower the price at all, but first years are nervous, and they think "oh my god, those titles match the ones I need".
I'm just entering second year now though, and I don't think the future second years will be suckered into that. Maybe if I wrote '2nd YEAR REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS' and stuck them in the first year sections.
I'm just entering second year now though, and I don't think the future second years will be suckered into that. Maybe if I wrote '2nd YEAR REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS' and stuck them in the first year sections.