College Students: How do you sell your textbooks?  

That's a good idea! I had nearly forgot about Amazon. I guess the good thing about that is, you can do a set price.

You can also do a set price on Ebay, but I'm usually far too lazy to pick a good price. Instead, I just start everything at 99 cents and let it go up if it will.

Yeah, but sometimes it takes a long time to sell... I actually sold a couple books to a professonr once so he could sell them to students that didn't have them... Maybe you could ask!

Out here the professors aren't allowed to sell the book. :(

But I have had professors who tried to give books away for free. But they said they'd only do it if the number of people who needed the book equaled the number of books they had. It always exceeded the number of books they had, so everyone had to pay.

I do like that Ebay only takes 1 week, and actually, it could be even shorter if you want to go with a short auction. I love watching the bidding though, so I like to get my full enjoyment out of it for a week.

My friends are mostly different majors from me.

We have a few bookstores not affiliated with the school, but they still don't have the greatest buyback amounts. But when I buy books, I go there because books are cheaper there.

I hate shipping things out, but I use UPS now so it's easier. They'll come to my door, pick up the package, and I'll get the bill later. It's so convenient.

I'd agree that selling back to the school tends to be the biggest rip off.

Yeah, I HATE going to the post office. But the good thing is, UPS will come to my door. So now I just make people pay more for shipping and ship UPS instead.

The post office has horrible hours. I can't take off work to go stand in a long line.

We still have to lug them all around campus. :) Unfortunately.

You could have still sold them to other students back then yeah? I see a lot of people doing that. But to me, it's too much trouble to have to give out my cell number and have people meet me and pick up the book.

That's great if you can give the books to poorer students.

Out here, if you're poor and managed to be in college, you are probably on scholarship anyway so your books are paid for. There isn't really anyone I could give my books to. If I offered the books, I'd have a hundred and something sad stories.

As far as regular books, not textbooks, I donate mine all the time. But college textbooks are worth a lot more money. Money I don't even really have to buy them at times. What I hate is that in this country, a lot of people claim they are having a hard time affording things, but they only work 10 hours a week or something. That's the problem. Sometimes they just need to work more. Others are genuinely working full time and going to school and still have a hard time. If you're really in the poverty bracket though, you can get financial aid out here, if not a full paid scholarship.

The thing I'm finding I don't like with half.com since I just started with it, is that the shipping is almost always at least twice what they say it will be. Because they aren't accounting for the weight of the book it seems. Or in the case of textbook bundles, the weight of everything.

I sold books on there for far less than I should have and practically lost money after shipping. :(

But the cool thing is, now I have a good source to sell off my paperbacks.

Good point on the lines! We have 3 days I think, but still!