Sell-back Sadness

It’s that time again—time to start thinking about which books to sell back, which to keep, and calculating how much money I will lose in the process. It is easy to pay out $400 per semester for the books you need, and depending on your major that figure can either rise or fall. Unfortunately because of my major and the classes I have to take, the books are usually on the more expensive side, and to the detriment of my wallet, the school bookstore usually does not buy them back. My record is I purchased around $500 worth of books one semester and got a grand total of…drum-roll please…$16 from selling them all back. And I did not even buy the books for two of my classes that semester! Well, I am resigned to the fact that I will lose enormous amounts of money each year from the purchase of textbooks, but I still have developed some ways to save a bit or get a bit more back when trying to sell my books at the end of the semester. A couple of my friends and I who have the same major pass down our textbooks. One of my friends even lets me use her books for free provided I return them to her at the end of the semester so she can keep them for reference down the road. She says that since they would be doing nothing but gathering dust on her bookshelf anyway, she might as well let me use them and not even charge a rental fee. Others of my friends want to get rid of their books, so they sell them to me because they do not want to go through the hassle of taking them to a textbook buy-back location—plus they probably make more money off of me than they could at the buy-back stores. Now I even have someone who is a semester behind me that I can pass my books along to. It will feel nice to sell back most of my books to a friend and not the campus bookstore because I know she will use them and it will save her money and I will probably get more money out of it to—a win-win situation.

Comments

[Glen Nothnagel]

Hello,

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Glen Nothnagel
www.sellbackyourbook.com