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Originally Posted by cortman
Ebay is a great place to sell books. They have a small seller fee, but nothing exorbitant (and it's lower than Amazon's IIRC).
On every book I've sold there I've made at least 80-90% of what I originally paid for it. On some I've even made a little extra beyond what I paid for it (since I bought the book originally at a drastically low sale price).
Of course I am helped by the fact that I don't
a) Buy new modern novels (thing that are popular for a month or two and then are forgotten)
b) Pay full retail price for ANY book
c) Never buy paperbacks- only hardbacks- and then usually Easton Press, Folio Society, Franklin Library, or other reputable publishers.
If you are an avid consumer of paperbacks and/or pay full retail price for everything you buy, then no, you won't make your money back, mainly because that's a bit of a foolish way to go about it IMO. Wait for sales or find good deals from private buyers is my strategy.
Time: 5-10 minutes (take a photo, create an ebay listing, package item when sold)
Transportation: USPS comes to my house, or I can just drop in the mailbox at work.
Currency transfer: ??? $0.00. I never sell international.
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Well that is where I go wrong on the concept
When I bought paper books, I only bought hard covers when I wanted to own the book permanently. So I was thinking paperback.
And I had started moving around a lot so had switched to mainly library books about the time Ebay came about.
I still work out of town 5-6 months a year so ebooks are a tremendous benefit to me for that reason alone.
Helen