When selling your used textbooks, you have a number of options for how to advertise them and make sales, both online and offline. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it???s important to choose carefully based on ease of use, likely sales prices, and other aspects. Some sales channels offer a great degree of flexibility in how you choose to sell your book, while also requiring more effort and work. Others provide a fast, standardized process for sellback.

 

No listing is needed ??? just ensure that the book is in good condition, enter your book???s ISBN, and get a price quote. Print our free shipping label, ship your book, and receive your payment once it's been approved.

While eBay can automatically list details of your textbook based on its ISBN, it???s recommended that you take your own photos of the book and provide information on its history, condition, and other features. Appraising your book's quality can sometimes be difficult, and adding details to your listing such as a subtitle or extra photographs can cost more money.

Amazon provides multiple options for listing your book. Its buyback program requires your textbooks to be largely unused and undamaged, while listing your book in the Amazon Marketplace allows you to sell books in varying condition.

Craigslist listings are largely freeform, requiring you to choose where to publish your ad and how best to format it. Its localized listings will reach interested buyers in your area, although the site offers very few ways of distinguishing your listing.

Reaching out locally requires a great deal of salesmanship: talking with potentially interested students, networking to find more buyers, designing flyers, and finding locations to post them. However, it can also be a great way to reach other students in need of your books.

ValoreBooks sellback price quotes for your textbooks are valid for 30 days. While these prices can change based on demand and the time of year, we can always offer you a fair price for your books.

Selling your books will depend on buyers??? level of interest and demand. This typically peaks in the weeks immediately before a semester begins, in August and January, while hitting a low in November and April. You may not be able to set a good price, or make a sale at all, if you miss these periods of peak demand.

Amazon's buyback program will accept your eligible textbooks at any time of year, while Amazon Marketplace is subject to seasonal changes in demand.

As with eBay and Amazon Marketplace, selling your textbooks on Craigslist can be largely dependent on current levels of interest in your books, and in textbooks generally.

Selling books locally is highly sensitive to seasonal changes ??? your potential market will be comprised almost entirely of other students, nearly all of whom will only be seeking textbooks at very specific times of the year.

If your book is eligible, we can provide you with an immediate price quote and timely payment at a guaranteed price.

Many eBay listings will expire without a sale. If you???ve added features to your listing such as paid promotion, subtitles, or extra photos, publishing another listing could cost you more for every book. While you can choose to accept a best offer to increase your chances of a sale, this could reduce your revenue.

Amazon's buyback program will accept your eligible textbooks at a fixed price, while Amazon Marketplace requires you to compete with other sellers listing the same books.

In order to reach enough of an audience on Craigslist, you may need to repost each of your listings twice a week, with no guarantee of a sale.

While there are almost surely people around your school who are in need of your used textbooks, it takes a lot of work to reach them using only social networking, salesmanship and flyers.

ValoreBooks provides you with an electronic shipping label that you can print at home, allowing you to ship your books for free. Once we've verified the condition of your books, you can receive payment via PayPal or check. That's it - we'll take it from there.

eBay requires setting up your own shipping options, shipping via the option chosen by the buyer, and waiting to receive payment. In addition, any buyer dissatisfaction or complaints can reflect negatively on your seller profile.

If you???re selling through Amazon Marketplace, shipping and communication with buyers is similar to eBay. You can review and answer messages from buyers in a central dashboard, and must manually provide buyers with updates on the status of their order. If you???re participating in Amazon???s buyback program, your payment can only be received in the form of Amazon gift cards.

When selling via Craigslist, you???ll often need to arrange the form of payment and delivery with an individual, whether you choose to ship your textbooks, deliver them in person, or have your buyer pick them up. This can be subject to the safety concerns inherent in meeting unknown people offline, and it???s a good idea to meet them in a public place.

When advertising and selling in person, you???ll typically be communicating with buyers via phone or email, negotiating an agreeable price and form of payment and delivery.

ValoreBooks

eBay

Amazon

Craigslist

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ValoreBooks

eBay

Amazon

Craigslist

In-person sales

ValoreBooks

eBay

Amazon

Craigslist

In-person sales

ValoreBooks

eBay

Amazon

Craigslist

In-person sales

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