Textbooks for sale
Erin and I have been accumulating textbooks for a few semesters now. I’ve been meaning to sell them on Amazon, but hadn’t gotten around to it (until today). I posted 42 books; the face value I set was more than 800 dollars. We’ll get maybe 75-80% of that, after Amazon’s cut and shipping, but it’s beats the bookstore prices by a lot.
I’m not terribly attached to my textbooks. Between libraries, online journals, and digital books, actual books are just another way of storing the information — and a pretty inconvenient one at that. I’m happy to get as much money out of them as possible. By purchasing used books online, and selling them back online, you can really keep costs down. I was saving a couple hundred bucks each semester compared to bookstore prices.
Anyways, it makes checking my email fun, because each new message is money in my account.
– Edit –
So far customers have paid a total of $263.67 (including the shipping fee). After Amazon’s charges, I’ve banked $210.18. Not too shabby.
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