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Make Money Selling Old Books

June 13, 2012 by Larisha Campbell 2 Comments

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I went to college at the one and only West Virginia University (Let’s Gooo… Mountaineers).  While there I collected an ENORMOUS amount of books (I also paid an equally enormous amount of money for them).  If you were like me, you swore that there was no need to trade the books back in at the end of the semester because you would DEFINITELY use them again one day.  Boy was I WRONG! I was left with boxes upon boxes of old books and reading material that I am never going to use again.

I recently came across an article on The Krazy Coupon Lady about an amazing website that tells you what is the best site to sell your textbooks back too. And thus I introduce to you, BookScouter.  All you have to do is type in the ISBN number that you find on the back of the book….

 Hit enter, and it gives you a list of various websites (approximately 20) around the web and the cost that they will pay you to trade-in your books.

I decided to start with books that I could return to Amazon’s Buy Back program.  I wanted to start here because I am very familiar with Amazon and know they have great customer satisfaction policies in case anything happens.  In addition to paying you for your used books, Amazon also pays for full shipping costs.

Once I figured out all the books that would give me the maximum value at Amazon, I put them all on the trade in list and one by one they added up.  Once finished, I hit trade in, confirmed my address, and hit submit.

This was seriously just as easy as adding stuff to you cart and hitting check out.

The site took me to a screen where I could print out both the packing slip and the shipping label.

Amazon lets you choose between USPS and UPS to send (both are free shipping).  All you have to do is pack in box, add the packing slip and the shipping label and take to your choice of location.  Their site estimates up to 10 days max to process the claim and once completed within 2 days an electronic Amazon Gift Card is added to your Amazon account.  While some other sites pay you by check or PayPal, I use Amazon often enough that a Giftcard is perfect for me.
Lastly, while some of the books were only $4 or $5, I was able to get almost $25 for some.  With only 9 books, I got over $100.  Well worth it to me!
A few last quick tips:
1. While not all books will have sell back value, I still found enough that I am able a nice profit years after I got the books, and I no longer have to lug all these heavy boxes around!
2. Many of the sites have a minimum limit to send back, while Amazon does not have a minimum.  I also had success with Textbooks.com who seems to offer higher value for the books they do accept even though they have a minimum.  Shipping is also free there.
3.Make sure to check out donating to the books you cannot sell to your local library. 🙂
So I challenge you to scour around your house and see what you can find and see what money you too can make!  Good luck!

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Comments

  1. Trina says

    June 13, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I've had a lot of success with Amazon as well … and I love that gift certificate option. Guilt-free shopping. Nice post!

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  2. Simply Me says

    June 15, 2012 at 11:44 pm

    Thanks!! I'm Glad you have had success in the past! The gift certificate is great because Amazon sells almost everything, so you can't go wrong!

    Reply

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