RESELLING STUFF

ok. so a few years back, i started reading manga one summer, and i got hooked. i would borrow ~5 books everytime i went to the library.

it was fruits basket.

but after reading ~10 books, i started buying them from borders. @ $9.99 each.

my mom was like, "why buy them when you can borrow them from the library?"
it's different! owning and borrowing something IS different. but if you don't want to read that book more than one time, then it's not worth your money. that's what i learned.

so now, i hardly EVER buy books. unless they're worth reading multiple times, AND i have a BORDERS coupon for them.

and by the time i bought book 14, i was forcing myself--i didn't even really like it anymore, and i just bought them for the sake of having the entire collection.

that was when i thought the series would be 20 books. but tokyopop decided to publish MORE books. so i decided that having a book collection worth $200+ isn't worth it, esp. since i borrow from the library 2 read.

now i'm stuck w/ ~18 manga books, brand new, unused.

so i decided to sell them. online.

i knew that eBay wasn't my choice. or amazon. cause they have listing fees/commission.

so i went to a LOT of book resellers to get quotes.

that was SO tedious, until i found http://www.bookscouter.com/ which helped SO MUCH--it's like one search engine that gets you all of the quotes from several websites.

but it's decieving--many websites have to have orders worth $10+ or like 15 books.

which i had, but

1.) they won't buy a lot of my books
2.) no ONE website offers the best quote for all of my books--site A would offer the best price for book A, and site B would offer the best price for book B. so i can't ever really get all of my stuff together.

another thing was that book resale prices are like the stock market--prices rise and drop every few days. which is hard 2 keep up w/.

but overall, Powells offers the best prices, and the smallest min. order: 3 books/$5. which is great. AND they pay for shipping of the books (which a LOT of the other sites do too!)

but the prices are FEROCIOUS! my BRAND NEW thesaurus from 2nd grade that i never used, hardcover, sells for $3 when i bought it for $25.

same w/ my manga: it sells for on average $0.75; $2 for a few of the volumes. original price $10.

so now i've got so many websites trying 2 get rid of my stuff:

http://www.ecrater.com/ (nice place, slow traffic... i've only gotten about 5 orders in ~2 years...)
http://www.swaptree.com/ (VERY NICE SWAPPING WEBSITE!! but it's not a place to sell ur stuff 4 cash, AND you have to pay for shipping, so ur basically BUYING stuff for ~$4)
http://www.a1books.com/ (no ad fee, but traffic is a bit slow...i've got 1 order in ~2 months so far...)
http://www.ebay.com/ (yes i have an account, but traffic is SO slow if you don't pay the ad fee...)