Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: kellar on September 28, 2008, 05:59:06 PM
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How do you guys get rid of your old books? I have about 30 textbooks, all recent editions, that I am desperate to sell to raise some money. The problem is I study at an American University online but I live in Germany. Obviously, that makes it very difficult to sell on ebay.com because shipping rates to the USA is absolutely ridiculous.
I have tried selling the books here in Germany but I guess not many German students are looking for American textbooks.
So, I have thought about trying to sell them on ebay.co.uk. Shipping to the United Kingdom isn't too expensive. Is there a better route to go? Do students generally sell their books back in the UK?
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Mine were of no value really though.
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The thought has crossed my mind but I have quite a few that sell for well over 100 euros on Amazon. It seems a waste just to ditch them.
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Thats a lot of money, don't burn then!
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:lol:
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It's a tough question
My books from my Physics HND I got rid of
The ones from my guitar making I still have
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it is a tough question... the books i still refer to aren't the ones i thought i would.
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i still have all my uni books... they really dont have a good sell on value
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When I was at Uni (all those years ago...) the faculty acted as a go-between for 3rd year students to sell on their books to the freshers. Does your college have that sort of thing going on? Might be worth an ask...
Mark.
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Does the University know of any other German based students that they could be of help to?
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How about amazon marketplace? never used them but thinking about it to shift a few books
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i just kept mine, but then i have about 4, rather than 30... i think we could sell our old books to the uni bookstore (or at least, they'd have tried to sell them on for us), though- but as you said, problem is that you're studying at an american institution while you're in germany...
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I can sell the books back to the Uni but I have to pay the crazy shipping costs, plus their buy back prices are very low.
I have tried Amazon but that doesn't really solve my problem seeing as how I would still have to pay the shipping charge back to the states.
I was thinking about putting them up on ebay.uk since shipping isn't very expensive to the United Kingdom. I am just not sure if you guys use the same books that we do. I would assume that some of them are the same.
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what did you study?
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I studied Professional Aeronautics and Management but the majority of the book I have left over are from my first two years of core study. Ex: Statistics, Literature, Management, Macro/Microeconomics, etc.