I love selling my stuff on Ebay, so I figured I should finally try Half.com as well. I had quite a few books that hadn’t sold on Ebay, so I put them up to try it out. Overall, I was very disappointed and will probably just stick with Ebay from now on. My Ebay experience ...
Ebay can help you sell items you no longer need or want, and Half.com can certainly help quickly move items such as books and DVDs. It can certainly be worth your effort if the transactions go smoothly because the sales provide you with money to purchase other items. The big trouble comes when a transaction ...
As an avowed book junkie, I have long trolled thrift stores, yard sales, and used book stores to feed my habit– on a budget. I can’t see paying $25.95 for a new hardcover, even if I could afford it (which I can’t). To that end, I’ve found a way to add to my personal collection ...
Starting a bookstore is a dream many people have. At many Friends of the Library booksales, I’ve overhead people more than once saying they’re stocking up for a bookstore they want to start for their retirement. There are a lot of readers who can think of nothing better than working around books. Here are some ...
As the summer semester of college quickly approaches, one of the my person least favorite things to have to do is purchase text books. Not only can text books be hard to find, they can be very pricey as well. College bookstores can usually have a large mark up on text books. Also when you ...
Before the beginning of the Internet Revolution in book-selling, Barnes and Noble was an expanding chain of bookstores, less aggressive in driving out locally owned bookstore than Walden Books and B. Dalton by opening stores as close as possible to existing stand-alone ones. The Seattle-based discounter Amazon.com launched in 1994 and became the epitome of ...
Imagine spending $100-$200 dollars on a textbook. If you’re taking 5 classes that can easily be more than $1000 a semester. You use it during the semester taking care to keep it in good condition. At the end of the semester you bring your textbooks to the bookstore, you think you might be able to ...
I love to collect DVDs and so does my boyfriend. Together we probably own close to 1000 movies. Have we spent $20,000 on these movies? No. In fact, some of these DVDs have been really cheap, costing under $1. You may find that hard to believe, but you can find DVDs for really cheap, if ...
I don’t think I was the brightest person at college, but when I heard my classmates complaining about how much they’ve spent on their textbooks, I couldn’t help but feel smart. While my colleagues were taking out larger loans to cover their books, I actually made $200 between my sophomore and senior years. In this ...
Spring is here, the perfect time to cull your bookshelves and media center for books, CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes that you no longer want and set yourself up as a seller on Half.com. During a two-year period, I netted $510.19 from selling books and CDs that were sitting around, collecting dust. Here are a ...
