selling books on-line

[Emma Wrigley]

I'm in the process of moving and have set up a justgiving account for
DEC Pakistan flood relief. I'm making an excel spreadsheet of all my
books and asking people to donate to the DEC in return for the books.
I'm doing it slowly but surely.
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Josiah Miller [josiahthemessiah at yahoo.com]
>Sent: 25/8/2010 8:11:23 PM
>To: fqmorris at gmail.com;rpmahnke at gmail.com
>Cc: joeallonby at gmail.com;pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: selling books on-line
>
>I dumped alot of unwanted books at paperbackswap.com or bookmooch.com.
For 
>every book that you send to somebody, you get a point to browse and
request a 
>book that you may enjoy from someone else. I found a lot of really
awesome 
>books. 
>I found that people aren't really buying books unless that are of the
rare 
>sort. 
> If you have a 1st Edition hardcopy of something that someone wants to
buy, 
>you 
>are going to have to make sure it is either in mint unread condition or
you 
>describe it to a T. These collectors are super picky, and why would you
want 
>a 
>book that is collecting dust not being read anyways? Sheesh.
>
>I found the best way to unload books that I couldn't sale online would
be to 
>take them to a used book store like Half Price Books if you have one of
those 
>near you. You can get cash or credit. They don't give you much, but
they 
>will 
>take everything.
>Hopefully that helps.
>
>Josiah
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: David Morris 
>To: Robert Mahnke 
>Cc: Joe Allonby ; P-list 
>Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 3:03:27 PM
>Subject: Re: selling books on-line
>
>Which is something you might consider, used-book sellers. They
>usually buy or trade. If for every book you offered, you received one
>back, that might be a pleasurable way of culling.
>
>On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Robert Mahnke wrote:
>> They don't sell them. They are acting as a go-between for used-book
sellers.
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