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kellar

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Selling college textbooks
« on: September 28, 2008, 05:59:06 PM »
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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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2008, 06:12:54 PM »


Mine were of no value really though.
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kellar

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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 06:17:03 PM »
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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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 06:18:56 PM »
Thats a lot of money, don't burn then!
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kellar

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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 06:23:44 PM »
 :lol:
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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 07:01:03 PM »
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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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2008, 08:18:27 PM »
it is a tough question... the books i still refer to aren't the ones i thought i would.
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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2008, 08:58:12 PM »
i still have all my uni books... they really dont have a good sell on value
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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2008, 09:01:12 PM »
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...

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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2008, 09:12:15 PM »
Does the University know of any other German based students that they could be of help to?
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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2008, 09:51:42 PM »
How about amazon marketplace? never used them but thinking about it to shift a few books
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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2008, 10:37:34 PM »
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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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2008, 05:31:23 AM »
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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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2008, 07:28:31 AM »
what did you study?
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Re: Selling college textbooks
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2008, 03:29:14 PM »
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.
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