The Keys Steps to Successful Book-Selling
- Be professional.
- Describe the goods properly in your ads.
- Price the books competitively.
- Make sure your books are in the best condition they can be.
- Mail them promptly once they are sold.
Does Selling Old Books Online Make Money?
Many books are read once (or not at all) and then given to a thrift shop, sold at auction, or discarded by being left on public transport. You may be able to sell them online for a profit.
Making money by selling books online is not an easy option. It takes hard work and persistence. You must be able to stay self-motivated despite days or weeks of zero sales. To make this type of business pay you need specialist knowledge. Getting the right books to sell and matching them to waiting customers is the key to success.
You can use a middleman to sell, or you could set up your own website. The video below describes how little you can expect to get for second-hand books from established online resellers. The websites reviewed in it are webuybooks.co.uk, Ziffit.com, momox.co.uk, and musicmagpie.co.uk.
Can You Sell Unwanted Books Online?
There are two main categories of second-hand books. The first and most common is a book which has been owned by someone else (yourself or another person) and is now being resold at a percentage of the original cover price. This category includes student textbooks, popular fiction, or ordinary books that are being sold off following the death of their original owner.
The second and smaller category is rare and collectible books. This is a specialist market in which the book’s value is determined not just by its condition and rarity, but also by investment potential. The values in this sector of the second-hand book market can be highly volatile.
Selling Books on Amazon, eBay, and AbeBooks
Amazon. AbeBooks and eBay are popular websites for selling second-hand and used books. Anyone can list books for sale on them and name their asking price. If you want to make regular sales, don't be greedy; price realistically.
The video below shows how using a book pricing app together with a portable make finding and pricing stock much easier than it used to be. This scanner and phone app combo have saved me hours of time.
Thrift Stores, Charity Shops, Yard Sales, and House Clearance
If you find you enjoy selling books online and make a profit then you'll need to find more stock. Thrift stores and charity shops sell cheap second-hand books. However, the internet makes achievable prices visible to everyone and so it's becoming more difficult to find hidden gems in these stores.
Just because a book is old, doesn't make it valuable. The opposite can also be true. Some newly published books are sought after because small print runs cannot keep up with demand. If you specialize in a particular subject area, you'll learn what has value, and what does not. Persistence and knowledge are the keys to success in this business, although luck also plays a part.
Auctions and house clearances can be a good source of large book collections. Relatives of the deceased may want to clear the house with as little hassle as possible. If you have transport you may even get paid by executors to take hundreds of books away for dumping, and be able to retrieve a couple of gems from the dross
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