Recently I pulled a few of Big Monkey’s old textbooks out of the office and looked to try and sell them. I checked out prices on half.com and also at Cash4Books.net. Three of the books had decent selling prices on half.com so I put them up and sold them all within two days. One book was getting a higher quote from Cash4Book.net, so I decided to give them a try.
I was given a payment quote of $38.90 for one textbook plus a 3% bonus of $1.17 for being paid through Paypal. I had to print out a prepaid shipping label and box up my book and drop it off at the post office. When they received my book, they sent me an email to let me know they had received it and would be reviewing it. Once the book was review to make sure it met their standards, my account was noted as processed. A couple of days later, I got an email letting me know that they had deposited $40.07 in my Paypal account. The entire process was quite easy and I got more money for that book than I would have it I sold it on half.com. They don’t take all books and they have some strict guidelines.
Overall, the process was easy and from the date I filed to send them my book to the date I was paid, was less than two weeks. I would recommend Cash4Books.net. I have created an affiliate link with their company in all the links on this page. If you go to their site from here and sell them a book, I will get $4. It’s not much, and I’m not expecting to get rich, if even any money at all! They are not paying me for this review though.
September 8, 2008 at 11:04 pm |
Cash4books does a pretty good job and consistently pays a pretty good price. Sometimes they don’t buy books for whatever reason, and sometimes another site has a higher price. Use BookScouter.com to find who is paying the highest price for your used books. By time you consider that half.com is taking something like 20-25% in fees, it often times makes more sense to sell to one of those companies directly.
October 24, 2008 at 7:18 pm |
why is it that books scouter says that the book is worth good money @ cash4books and then when I go into the site, they do not want it?
Kati Here: I’m sorry but I do not know. I have only sold them the one book and that is what I wrote my experience on.
November 10, 2008 at 11:21 am |
@Angela, let me know the ISBN via the contact form on BookScouter.com and I can investigate.