Books & School Options

[sixfive]

Do you sell your books back? Do you keep the ones for your major as reference material? Do you sell back to the campus book store / amazon / craigslist / other method?

Traditionally I've gone to the book store (I'm lazy) and taken the highest offers. Sometimes they'll offer like $10 for a $150 book and I tend to keep those because I'd just feel guilty for giving up something like that at a fraction of the price. Still probably will never read it again :(

[Joanne]

When I sell my books to students, I always charge at least 75% of the school bookstore's used price. It sucks if I bought the book new ($150ish) and have to sell it for way cheaper ($80ish), but it's awesome when I bought them used from someone who charged less ($50) and sold them for a tiny bit more ($60)... which is quite often.