BS: Best way to sell used books online?

Subject: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 11:29 PM

On ebay or through one's own listings at abebooks.com?

SOme I will list on Mudcat, but there are several that I don't think would be of much interest.

Thanks for any opinions and/or experiences.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 11:36 PM

I've bought several used from the Amazon system. Works well for buyer; dunno how well it works for seller-- maybe you have to be a bookstore.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 12:21 AM

If you have a "coherent collection" and/or anything of reasonable value, the best use of the web would be to find a few book stores that specialize in used/old books, and then contact them for info on how to list them. They may have someone on their list that's already asked for one you have.

There are a number of good dealers, but the best one for you would depend on the kind(s) of books and location. The books need not be particularly valuable, but preferably out of print or at least a little hard to find.

If you have mostly stuff that you could take to the local used book mart, then the best advice is probably to just filter them into your local waste removal stream... but I know that's really hard to do, unless you've learned from giving the children away a few times (and the kids always find their way back).

John

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 09:31 AM

**bg** Thanks, JohninKS. Indeed the kids do find their way back.

I just pass on the books which would normally go to the local used book exchange. The ones I am thinking of selling are all out of print or early, if not first, editions. I have the abe software downloaded and had started to list all of my library in it, sorted for sale or not, but got a bit bogged down at the time.:-)

Thanks, Susan, I'll look into that. I just never think of Amazon for rare and out-of-print.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 10:32 AM

I've also bought a lot from Amazon...mostly obscure texts...and it seems to be a good outlet for graduate students who discover that the University bookstore will only offer them $1.25 for the $75 book they purchased 4 months before.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 01:08 PM

People will also bid high for rarer books on Ebay, so that's worth a try. You can specify an opening bid too...and if no one goes for it, you haven't lost anything. Ask Two Bears...he has bought some rare books on Ebay, and he may have sold some too.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 01:39 PM

my ex is a used boook dealer...
the web page we used to have is
www.quiknet.com/~piercebk
he finds abebooks to be the
best way to sell books-not sure if
you uhave to be a shop or a member.
Wayne has thousands and thousands of
books. There are programs which you can
use to catalog the titles you have.
They have forms with places to enter
author, title, publisher, etc.
how many books are you talking about
here? you might send him a list of
titles you have...he specializes in
used, out-of-print and hard-to-find
books. He might be interested in
them. his e-dress is [e-mail]
good luck.Laurel

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Michael
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 01:50 PM

We have sold quite a lot of our old books on Amazon, it works very well, its easy , you take no risksm - payments are through Amazon.
I recommend it.
Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 11:12 PM

Well, thanks, everyone! I will take a look at Amazon, Michael. And, Laurel, thanks for the info on yer ex.:-) I have started to enter my library in the software I downloaded from abe and looked into selling on there. It seems pretty straightforward, though I think for paying and no risk Amazon might be easier.

LH, I have also sold stuff on ebay, but not any really rare books, so I'll send a PM to Two Bears, thanks. The thing with ebay is, if someone else has what you're selling, your chances of selling your nearly same item are less and if you don't get your reserve price, if you choose to have one, you're still out for the listing fees, so I am thinking the other alternatives might be better except for the few really rare things I have.

I knew I'd get good input from 'catters!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 11:22 PM

You might try half.com It's an Amazon site

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 09:45 AM

If you've got quite a few books to dispose of, abebooks.com and alibris.com are worth considering - either in your own name or through a dealer who's already in there. They score high with search engines and are frequented almost exclusively by people (including specialist dealers) who are there specifically for used books. Very friendly, very easy, very effective.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 09:57 PM

What books on what subjects? You've whetted our appetites, now let's feast!

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 10:17 PM

Thanks, Fionn, that's what I'd found when I've searched and bought on abe.

EBarnacle, LOL, I'll have to get on the stick and get to it, won't I? Off the top of my head, the one I really want to get sold, for starters, is a first of Tramp Abroad, but I've got to get it appraise first and there's no one knowledgeable here that I trust. I've looked at sites which tell what to look for and seen some on ebay that look like mine, but there are some subtle distinctions between two issues. It's the first book in which he allowed his photograph to apprear. The rarer version has some water stains on his collar; they corrected that and republished it. I THINK I have the earlier one, but I need an expert to check it out.

I also have some old Will James; old 1930's metaphysical books from Unity School of Christianity; more recent herb books; and more. Haven't decided for sure which ones I will sell and which I will keep. Now that you've asked....:-)

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 10:52 PM

Over the past eight years ABEbooks (originally, Antique Book Emporium) has provided me with obscure books that have been unavailable in U.S because of politics. Thankfully, PC had not yet caught up with the rest of the ABE-globe, several of those books are no longer listed (hopefully - sold-out to collectors)...it is sort of like the world version of AMOK.

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 06:57 PM

After a slight detour, :-), I am finally back at this. I have heard from the local used bookstore, that she no longer uses abebooks because they've upped their charges and other reasons. Anyone else have any more recent experience with selling with them or any of the other places noted above?

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Beer
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:35 PM

Well here goes. Time to let out my little secret.
I go to as many estate auctions as possiable and buy boxes (preferable old) of books for 1,2,3 dollars abox. I usually never spend more that this unless I know for sure tat something in that box is worth big bucks. I try to stay away from soft cover, readers digest and national geographic.
Once a year I put a small add in thje local newspaper asking folks not to throw out their old hard cover books. Call me instead and I'll come and pick them up.
When I get home I go through all the books and keep the ones I want to read and also keep anything on Canadian history or old American History. I now have about 200 in my collection.
I then go to AddAll.com and get an approxmate value of the books I have. They are very helpful in giving me a ballpark figure as to what a book is worth. Anything they (antique book shops)have listed under a $100.00 I don't keep. Anything over $100.00 I will list on e-bay.
My first sale on e-bay was a Will Rogers (title I forget.)book first edition and I got $167.00 Anerican. I was hooked. My worst sale was to a lone bidder from Alaska that got a first edition Agatha Christie at a reserve for $50.00. The book was valued over $3,000.00. I cried for awhile but then got thinking that I still made money. I had only paid $1.00 for a box that I also sold three others.
But make sure if you say it is a first edition that it is and not a republishers first edition. You have to get to know the companies that are republishers.
For example. You buy a book called "Moby Dick" You pay $3.00 for it but your all excited because it says "First Edition". Now you know this book is worth thousands so you list it at X numbers of $ only to get the dickens (shit) from someone that tell's you that it isn't worth nore that 25 cents at a garage sale. Why? Because it was a republished book by Burt, Cassel, Collier, Altermus, Blakiston, Greenwich house, Cupples & Leon, Fiction Library, Goldsmith, Grosset & Dunlap, Saalfield, Sun Dial, Triangle, Hurst, Tower, and on and on.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Beer
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:57 PM

Sorry about that folks. Pressed the wrong button so there are probably many spelling mistakes as I'm not a typist but I use spell check when I'm finished.
I got heck once from a buyer who said that before I list as first edition that I should make sure of what I was saying. He was very critical but also very constructive. I wrote back and thanked him. He pointed out that my first edition was a "Book of the Month Club". No where on that book did I read this. And no where would I have found it written. Except on the back of the cover there was a small indented "dot" at the bottom of the cover. And the dot was the same color as the cover. I learned a very valuable lesson.
The books that I can't sell I give to the local church for their yard sale. About 3 months ago I boxed over 600 books and they were shipped down to Katrina victims. Two years ago I gave over 1000 books to a community that was collecting books to open a library. I never throw a book out.
If you care to go to e-bay and somehow find my handle which is "noah_black". You will see some of the books I am presently selling. I think I'm aloud to say this?? All of these books are valued well over a $100.00, yet I paid next to nothing for them.

I'm not getting rich at this but it has helped me buy a "Blueridge BG40 Guitar and some extra for beer money.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 09:17 PM

Thanks, Beer, that's exactly the kind of info I am looking for. I do know a bit about republishers, learned by observing, researching, esp. on abebooks, alibris and bookfinder. I hadn't heard about adadll.com, so will check it out, too. Thanks a bunch!

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Beer
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 09:34 PM

Your most welcomed.
I tell you Kat!, boxes of books for a buck or two at auctions is the way to go before to many folks catch on.   It's a gold mine.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 10:36 PM

eBay. You can check Abebooks for the price the dealers are asking, but then you can check eBay for the true value. Click their site map tab at the top of the page and on the next page go about halfway down to Completed Listings on the left. I think they hold the completed postings for 2 weeks. (You need to be a member with a password to look at the Completed Listings). Makes me shake my head when I see what some of those books just sold for. I expect to get about a quarter to a half of the top price Abebooks lists, and I fix a reserve at that quarter to half. If I got the book cheaply, why not take a decent markup and move on? Good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 11:28 PM

Thank you, Guest. I am a member of ebay, but I didn't know that about the completed listings. I also had not worked out a "formula" for a reserve price, so that is quite helpful.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:12 PM

Right now I'm looking at a stack, not quite a complete selection, of paperbacks that are all first US editions by Janwillem van de Wetering. Deciding what to do--selling them one at a time doesn't seem to work. A whole bunch at a time seems to not get anywhere near what they're worth. I'm going to try a few at a time, in chronological order. Maybe I should list all of them, in three separate auctions, a few hours apart but more or less at the same time?

SRS (I ought to read them first, but I don't have time)

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 06:19 PM

Ah, had *lost* this thread and was going nuts trying to remember the site you mentioned, Beer, "AddAll.com." Thanks, again, for that. I am finally ready to start listing some books!

Thanks to the rest of you, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Tootler
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 07:09 PM

My daughter buys and sells books on eBay. She has a good idea of going rates for the type of book she is interested in and finds that prices on eBay can fluctuate around that price quite considerably.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:01 AM

I was given a large pile of "Magical and mystical" and health related books recently..all hardback and in new condition. I don't have room for them so have listed them on Amazon about five weeks ago. I haven't made a single sale.

I really want to get rid of them all, quickly...anyone want them???? They are too good to throw away

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Scoville
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:07 AM

If there is a Half Price Books or something like that near you, just take them there. You won't get a whole lot but they've never rejected anything I've given them and you can unload the whole batch in one trip. Save you the listing fees and the bother of storing them if they don't sell or take too long to sell.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:45 AM

Half-Price books is in the US, but there is probably a British equivalent.

You could offer them as a lot on eBay, get rid of them in one fell swoop. Be sure you package and weigh them FIRST so you know how much to charge for shipping. And if you're offering to sell internationally, you might suggest that bidders contact you and you'll research the rate and let them know.
List them cheap, maybe 25 - 50 cents a book to start, and go from there.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Beer
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 12:36 PM

I'm thinking of seriously dumping e-bay. They have up their prices and are getting to damn greedy. I'm going to look into You Tube and see if their are possibilities there.
Beer
Aka (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 01:47 PM

I agree with Michael. I have been selling my old books, videotapes, CDs I don't want, any media, really on Amazon.com for a couple of years now and have had a wonderful experience. I also prefer them for buying books and love the "used" option as it is a good, cheaper alternative.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 02:02 PM

Not directly on Kat's point, but perhaps of interest to potential "used" book buyers, and following on what Beer describes above--

A "used" book seller (via Amazon) answered my question about how she can afford to let books go so cheap-- sometimes it's a penny a book, plus shipping. She said that books going at that rate have been bought by the case at auction, unexamined, and may be new or used, some new with slight water damage suspected from box damage, and that there are enough "good" items in these cases bought at auction that in total, she makes out quite well. She's happy to let the penny books go so cheap because it reduces her outlay costs as long as the shipping is covered. I've bought several books this way much cheaper than their "new" price and been surprised to get brand-new books with tight spines showing they were never opened.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 03:18 PM

Although I use abebooks.com to purchase older material, I agree that Amazon runs a good ship; I have bought used or remaindered material through them without problems. Also useful for used cds and dvds.

I am not yet into selling my books, but these are the two I would look into (North America).

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:03 PM

I will probably go with Amazon, though as a buyer I had a bad experience. Order and paid for a book. Let them know it never arrived, up to a month later. The seller basically said too bad and would not refund my money or send another copy.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:08 PM

Sounds like you got a bad seller, kat. I ordered a DVD and it never showed up. When I tried to email the seller I was told their right to sell on Amazon had been revoked. Amazon itself refunded my money, though. As a seller I haven't questioned it the couple of times my buyers have told me the books never arrived. All I generally asked was that they wait for the allotted arrival time to expire and then I refunded their money in full. Amazon definitely keeps you in the loop on the selling end, though. I am hooked. It's a great way to clean out unwanted stuff without having to haul it all down to the lawn and let strangers rummage through it.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:20 PM

I don't know what Half Price Books is, but I don't think we have anything like it here. I thought about taking mine to a charity shop, but our local ones have signs up that they haven't got room to store stuff and aren't taking books, toys or bric-a-brac any more

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Scoville
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:27 PM

HPB is a chain bookseller--new and used. They buy used books, VHS, CD's, DVD's, that sort of thing. You don't get a lot but you also have the convenience of unloading a lot of stuff at once. Sorry, I didn't realize you were UK.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 06:35 PM

I've sold things through Amazon also. I used to buy books in their auction but it got too off track, with the listers all seeming to be sure they had rare valuable books that were in fact garage sale trash. Hard to sort through all of it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 08:01 PM

Thanks, Becca. I should ahve contacted Amazon about it, I know. My local used bookstore is always getting more books than she can use. She was throwing them out. Now, she's set up a sellers' program. Sign the contract and you get a certain number of books signed out to you, with a check for the agreed upon wholesale price, then you can sell them any way that you want. Those you don't sell you can take back to her and you do not pay for them. Any sales get split 50/50. I may take her up on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 09:09 PM

Who gets the check--the bookstore, right? Can you pick through and get all the same author, etc? That would be the way I'd do it--selling lots of the same or similar (you have to show the connection) authors is pretty easy on eBay. You don't make a lot of money, but you can do better than break even.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 09:28 PM

SELL books!?!?!!! Sell your books??? Your children???

(Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. But I'm a librarian....)

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:02 PM

Though no fan of eBay after the hassle I had when they listed my stolen uilleann pipes, I feel obliged to update my earlier post. Small second-hand/antiquarian dealers are increasingly biting the bullet and throwing in their lot with eBay. There is more liquidity in that market than in all the rest put together. And any competent specialist trader will scour the listings, which saves you having to traipse round their stores.

A tip I picked up is that a decent photo can make a big difference on eBay. Thorough and fair description of condition, content, number of plates, etc helps too, but trade-style terms like G/VG are best avoided since many potential bidders don't understand them.

If you are going to be selling small-ticketitems in large numbers, the listing fees can become quite significant, so it's worth waiting for offer-price listing days.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:38 PM

Yeah, I know, Rapaore. I have books stacked all over which I have had for years. I was just telling Rog that I have a hard even thinking of selling them. I would rather give them to friends whom I know would appreciate them!

Now the stuff I get from the bookstore, yes, I think those I could sell!

SRS, good idea. I might think about that. She had suggested focussing on genre, but it would be up to me. She would hold a check, from me, for any books I would take, in lots of fifty, but I would get the individual checks/payments from buyers. After I sell the first fifty, I pay her half and get my check back OR, she holds it for the next batch. She does nothing with my held check unless I never bring the books back or pay her from the sales of them. I should also say we are talking about paperbacks only. She prints out the ISBN, pricing labels with her bookstore name on them AND also the seller's name, i.e. my name. The profit level goes up the more books you sell. She has a lot of good suggestions on how and where to sell them, too, including ebay by the book lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 11:21 PM

Is there a way to sell/swap here? I have all 16 of the Henry Gamandge mysteries by Elizabeth Daly (Agatha Christie's favorite mystery writer), but I'll never get around to reading them. I'd let them go, cheap. Are proposals like that permitted here?

http://mail.moment.net/~michael/DalyBooks.JPG

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 11:55 PM

Only in the acution and you can only use the auction if you sign up to be a member, which is free. Also, you have to set a percentage of the auction price to go to Mudcat which is a non-profit.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 11:57 PM

Oh, I see yours are hardbacks. Better check what they are selling for, esp. as you seem to have some with their dustjackets. Here's a comparison pricing site which shows some of hers as rather pricey: click here.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:14 AM

Kat,

I've been selling mysteries of my Dad's that after nine years I still hadn't gotten around to reading. He had shelves full of them, and the authors he liked he collected all of the books. I recently found a couple of boxes in the garage that rounded out some sets I'd already sold, so in some instances (like Ed McBain) I've sold 20 books at a time in a large lot. I start out low, maybe listing it at 2.99, knowing someone is going to bid on it just because if they get lucky they'll get a whole bunch of books for next to nothing. As soon as one person bids, others want to see what might be there and will also take a look. On some authors you're actually better off starting really low. Others that will probably only get one bid I sometimes push a little higher because they'll get some attention but not the active bidding. The ones I've sold in lots through eBay that generated some excitement included McBain, the Kellermans, Elliot Roosevelt, Stuart Kaminsky, Dick Francis, J.J. Marric, James Melville, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Josephy Wambaugh, Donald Westlake. Some of them, like the Dick Francis and Joseph Wambaugh came from a garage sale up the street and I got them low enough that I made a little money selling them.

I've sold almost all of the books I've listed, but these excited enough interest that I ended up with a nice little profit. You don't make much money selling paperbacks at eBay, but what you do earn supports the eBay habit (in my opinion!). Most of these books didn't cost me anything to begin with and I make sure I don't lose money on shipping (I use recycled library book mailers I get for free from the recycle bin at work). I add in the sixty cents tracking fee on book rate boxes because if for some reason I do have to take it to the post office, it's covered. I always track anything I ship that I sold on eBay.

I agree with Peter--good photos are key. I make a point of using a beautiful wood background (tabletop) for my paperbacks, I arrange them so a few edges and spines can be seen, I spell out any flaws and if needed, include a photo of the damage. I make larger images and post them to a personal web page and do my eBay book ad in a template I designed in FrontPage. I link back to the personal page so I don't pay for extra photos at eBay. I set them up so the photos open IN A SEPARATE WINDOW. The last thing I want is for my customer to be navigating away from my sales page!

Also, I always try to have a book cover with a face and eyes in view in the photos. That seems to make a difference, not just the dripping dagger and blood on the thorn of the rose next to the broken mirror and a scrap of paper. Arrange your books so they look interesting. Don't have personal stuff near the subject OR in the background, and don't use the carpet or bedspread, or couch upholstery, etc. I don't want anything in the photo giving any clues as to the house or to the quality of carpet or furniture I have here. With digital cameras it isn't like you're wasting film trying to get it right. I photograph two or three of the best looking or most popular in the lot and post that in the free eBay photo space and then have thumbnails through my ads and text links to the other photos, also letting them know that it will open in a separate window. In the auction itself they can see all of the books, but if they're at a page with all auctions and looking at the gallery photos I want my books to be recognizable in the eBay thumbnail. I don't always run gallery shots though. Sometimes that is overkill when the author isn't over-represented in the auctions. People searching for their favorite authors will click on the ad if they can see that there is a photo in it somewhere.

Hope this helps! I think I'd enjoy trying the bookstore sales routine--it would allow me to combine what I already own with some newer offerings by the same authors so I could sell more complete sets.

Maggie (SRS)

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 12:33 AM

Thanks, Maggie!! I really appreciate all of your info and hearing about what has worked for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 01:06 AM

All of that sounds like it takes a while, and at first it does. But I have a staging area for this work, the table where photos are taken, the mailers, a scale, tape, and templates in FrontPage along with the USPS web site to calculate postage. The most time consuming part is transcribing the blurb (into Notepad) on the back cover of each book. I drop it into FrontPage, Photoshop the photos, and launch the thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 01:26 AM

Go to Amazon for the blurb. Copy and paste.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 11:34 AM

That is a good idea, and it works if they have the identical book, but some of the editions I have used different wording, or when searching on the ISBN it won't turn up. I do cut and paste when I can. (Sometimes you can piggy back from other eBayers if they've already copied it, but pay head to the proofreading thread and be sure you're not repeating their mistakes or it is conspicuous where you stole found your copy). :)

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to sell used books online?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM

Yeah, I meant to mention the ISBN search on newer books. Sounds like you have things well thought out. Good luck.