Every year when a new influx of students enters college, the bookshops make an absolute killing. You need your textbooks so go to the store and pay out at least $150, as they buy them back you think you will have a head start on the next ones you need. This goes out the window when you return the book in good condition and they give you $25 for it.
This is the textbook game and unfortunately the students are never the winners. If you go back to that shop at the start of the next semester, there is every chance that you will find the same book in the used section for $120. The way to beat this system is to resell your books online.
The two best sites to list your book on is Amazon and eBay. The latter charges a small fee depending on the selling price.
When you list your book on Amazon, they will set a fee depending on how much you have listed your book for, you only pay this fee if it sells. Amazon shows up really well on search engines which drives more traffic and subsequently more possible buyers.
Amazon is a better option as it will give better results in the search engines and in peoples minds they are buying from Amazon when they are really buying from an individual who has listed something on the Amazon site.
Public forums are well known as places where people try to sell things as they want to avoid fee but there are two major drawbacks; there is a much smaller audience and there are so many scams around that a lot of people are reluctant to part with money when they have no comeback.
Both eBay and Amazon have well respected ratings systems so you can see a sellers reputation, a few forums have this but most don’t.
Whichever way you sell your book, you need to get your money some way. The most widely used, and safest online payment system is PayPal. The normal transaction fee is around 3%.
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