College Texbooks... what to resell?

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Ketteringo
I'm selling $1,000 worth of books from my last 4 years of school on half right now. About $650 gone so far, and it's only been 3 days!

Hey, what are you using to ship with? I'm trying to look for small book size shipping boxes to ship the items...

I'm going put up all my books online even old one, maybe someone wants them..

 

[Noirish]

sell everything, they are useless in real life.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: Ketteringo
I'm selling $1,000 worth of books from my last 4 years of school on half right now. About $650 gone so far, and it's only been 3 days!

Hey, what are you using to ship with? I'm trying to look for small book size shipping boxes to ship the items...

I'm going put up all my books online even old one, maybe someone wants them..

Took your advice, just posted like 15 books on half.com from 15$ to 85$ hopefully someone wants them.

 

[neutralizer]

I sell books that I don't think I'll be using in the future.

 

[JonnyStarks]

I've used my first year textbooks a bunch of times after I was done with the course that required them. They often cover basic topics that you don't always find in upper year texts and its good to have them to go to when you need a refresher.

Plus I figure when I get old and have a cool bookshelf in my home office I'm gonna need smart looking books to fil it with.

 

[vegetation]

I never keep textbooks anymore. Even if it's in my area of concentration, I sell them. Why? New versions come out fast making your textbook obsolete and worthless junk in as quickly as a year or two. If you really love your text, then just buy an older version off half for a few bucks (that's what they go for), or repurchase your current version in a few years at the same dirt cheap price. With this strategy, I've only had to incur a 10% loss in textbook purchases since my start of graduate studies.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: vegetation
I never keep textbooks anymore. Even if it's in my area of concentration, I sell them. Why? New versions come out fast making your textbook obsolete and worthless junk in as quickly as a year or two. If you really love your text, then just buy an older version off half for a few bucks (that's what they go for), or repurchase your current version in a few years at the same dirt cheap price. With this strategy, I've only had to incur a 10% loss in textbook purchases since my start of graduate studies.

Thats a good idea. Sell them, use the money to buy new books and if you really need it again re-buy it later for really cheap price..

I just looked up a book on half.com costed me $107 in 2000 and now i can get it for $2

 

[IAteYourMother]

I'm sure someone in Texas would love some texbooks

 

[Mayfriday0529]

I already sold one... $60...