Selling my textbooks
By qianyun6
@qianyun6 (2067)
China
June 11, 2010 3:08am CST
Since I will graduate from university soon, I sold my self-used textbooks and some other learning materials I will no longer use today.
I put them in a box and brought them to the square in front of our canteen, unpacked them on the ground. Then I sat on the chair there and waited for lower grade students buying them. I sold them in a low price because I don't want to spend too much time on it. Finally I sold about 4/5 of the total and get about RMB100. The process of selling is a good pratice for me.
One of my teacher in university who taught me Data Structure and Data Base told me and my classmate, you should buy second-hand books and sell them after the using semester. This can save resources and more economic for yourself.
What do you think? How did you deal with your used textbooks? Sold them? Kept them? Or gave/donate them?
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20 responses
@faisale83 (198)
• India
11 Jun 10
if you feel it would help in future just keep it yourself allas just sell. Actualy what i'm doing is i just keep all my computer related books ,maths book are keep myself and another ussless book for me selling and getting money, by that money i again purchased another one usefull book.... it help me a lot by increasing my knowledge on perticular subject what i'm concentrated.
Here i think you don't have a perticular vision for you future , make a vision and aim to that
Best of Luck
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Jun 10
hiqianyun6 I went back to complete my degree at age 54 and graduated at age 56 so I sold back a lot of new books, kept some of my used books as the resale was not worth it and too I liked to go through them occasionally too. Because even back then the new ones were getting expensive I sold the ones I knew I would never use again. now sadly
all of my textbooks are in storage awainting the day my son gets a job and can move me out of here. I r eally did not give any away as they were all really costly.
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@derek_a (10874)
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11 Jun 10
I have read and used many books over the years and since I have been on line, I have sold many on Amazon Marketplace and some on Ebay. I have also found that the Internet it a great source of reasonbly-priced books.
Some books didn't sell on-line so I took them to a charity shop and they sold there quickly. Strange the way some people won't buy on-line. _Derek
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@babostwick (2036)
• United States
11 Jun 10
Right now, it will depend upon all my books that I obtain. Some I keep for references and others I plan on probably selling. Mostly, it's going to be depend on what I'm going to need the most. It just comes down to what will be needed the most and how to go about it in terms of selling. Others I'm going to keep for future references such as the C++ book, Database, and probably a Java book for example.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
11 Jun 10
I sold most of my old textbooks. I found a website for students where you can sell the textbooks that I you don't need anymore. I didn't ask for much money, because just like you I didn't want to spend too much time on it. I didn't want to keep the books, I knew I wasn't going to use them again, and it didn't want them to take up space on my books shelves, so I figured it was best to sell them at a low price. Some of students who were interested in my books lived in my local area, and they came to my house to pick up the books. Some of them lived in other parts of the countries and in those cases I sent the books via snail mail.
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@Cutie18f (9551)
• Philippines
11 Jun 10
In our place, I think some private schools are clever enough to change their textbooks every year so they younger sisters or brothers cannot use them anymore and the parents are forced to buy new ones. It is always business here. Schools have used this strategy of changing textbooks in order to make profit.
@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
12 Jun 10
There are a few books I wish I had kept I could really use some of the information now! But I sold almost all of my books back to the store when I completed each class. I was usually so hard up for money that I had to sell them at the end of the semester!
@thexu_06 (29)
• China
13 Jun 10
hi,buddy,your words help me a lot.
i am going to graduate.i have some problems with my books and living goods.
pedlars here are crzay with buying old textbooks and living goods,but they offers little for those things.
i would rather donate them than selling to them.
hahha.......it's good idea selling things in our canteen.as you say ,this can save resources and more economic for myself.
@knicnax (2233)
• Philippines
11 Jun 10
Hi!
As I was reading your post, I was thinking "That's probably because the textbooks aren't computer related" but woah! Data-strut and DB? Why'd you sell them?
I sold my books that aren't technical, but all y technical books are still with me. DB, SAD, etc. all my techy books are sitting in my shelf. A lot of lower year students asked me if they could buy my books, I said no, I'd let them borrow but not buy. I believe that the books would be very handy in the future. Though the technology moves fast, the basic concepts remain the same, and backwards compatibility is always a big issue in IT, legacy systems are also big.
I sold my books whose content rarely changes, like english, filipino, psychology text books :)
@marvintechnology (304)
• Philippines
11 Jun 10
If you find it more useful to you just keep it for future reference, but if you want extra cash then sell it, anyway they are used already.
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@juanjuanlevin (147)
• China
12 Jun 10
Having reading your book-selling experience,I seems go back to my university.Before graduating,maybe in May or June of last year,it was so hot that we ofen ate ice-creams,my dormates and I planed to sell some textbooks to lower grade students.On one hand,selling some unuseful books like magezine and novels can save us much energy when we go home by bus or train,on the other hand,we can take back some money (although this money belongs to ourselves originally).But when I was sorting out my textbooks,I found many of them were still new and I even didn't open them at all.If I sell them,the price would be much lower than its pricing.What a pity!I bought them at a high price four years ago.I decided not to sell them and palned to reserve for reading afer graduation.
@sherielapjat (169)
• India
11 Jun 10
hey my dear friend, i too have such an experience as i too sell my old books to my juniors. but it wont matters . afer your studies sell it man. because we wouldnt llok to it any more as my opinion and it will remain as a waste for long time with us and after that we or our family members will burn it out . it is better to make some money out of your used books as i think. now too i am studying in an engg college and i will sell all my past semester books to my juniors
@princesslawyer0515 (270)
• Philippines
14 Jun 10
Selling books is cool because you are able to lessen the clutter in your shelf and make money from it to buy new books that you can use. However, I don't sell a book just because I'm not using it. I see to it that I will no longer use it in the future, that no one in the family would need it. I ask my siblings and cousins if they want to have my book. Unless it will not be useful in the future, it's good to sell it so that someone else can use it. Donating is also cool when you don't need money. I have tried it a couple of times and it's fulfilling.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
12 Jun 10
I donate the textbooks to the local library. But you have just given me an idea on how to be resourceful. I will do the same. Thanks, ha ha!
@chendaimi (153)
• China
11 Jun 10
wow , i just keep my testbooks in my room , now they are stacked like a hill ,i want to sell them ,but nobody wants them , because schools buy new textbooks for the students in our area ,in fact , i think it's wasteful,but i think it will be difficult to let students use the second-hand textbooks ,firstly schools can gain profit through buying books for students ,so it's impossible to let school call for this movement first ,if they really do that , it means they give up their road for gaining money
@swetashah (345)
• United States
12 Jun 10
I don't know. Usually in the U.S. we sold it back to the school bookstore in less than half of the purchased price. What a big rip - off deal. And the book store resell them in higher price. Back and forth, the bookstore make a huge profit, I can tell you that.
@juggerogre (1653)
• Philippines
12 Jun 10
I don't sell them. I want to have my own library so I'm keeping them. They are also important to me since they have become part of my college life. They have great sentimental value.
@chirag2006 (123)
• China
11 Jun 10
in some course it needs books like i did medical so i have to keep my books for knowledge and also buy some other books so sometime it works to sell ur books for mr it dont work so it give u some cash use to do it
