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[alexseanchai]

Amazon Marketplace officially became too much hassle for an individual to sell used books on a while back. What's my best bet now? eBay? Or should I just say fuck it and donate these books to the library book sale?

(Black Robe, Brian Miller; The Kingdom of Matthias, Johnson and Willentz; Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin. I can't imagine wanting to keep Black Robe, I'm not exactly thrilled with the thought of keeping Go Tell It On The Mountain, and The Kingdom of Matthias has some interest as a history of Sojourner Truth before she took on that name, but not enough to justify me rereading it, never mind keeping it.)

(Though if anyone reading this is interested in any of those three books, I will cheerfully sell them to you at 5 USD each plus shipping.)

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[the_rck]

Local to me, there's a company that will sell books, CDs, etc. online for people. The seller only gets about 33% of the price, however, and the company won't issue a check for less than $10, so I'm not convinced that such a company is a good option for selling just a few books.

Ebay can work, but people don't look there for books quite so much, so it can be kind of a crapshoot. Ebay can be useful, however, for looking at past sales of the same/similar items to see what buyers were actually willing to pay. I don't think I'd be willing to deal with Ebay for anything that I thought would sell for less than about $20 (plus shipping), but that's me.

[alexseanchai]

Hm, yeah, okay. Good to know. Thanks!

[edenfalling]

If you have a local used book store, you might see if they'd be willing to buy the books from you for resale. Otherwise, yeah, a library book sale is always a good cause.

[alexseanchai]

--good point. I know Acorn Books doesn't take textbooks, but these don't so much look like textbooks--two of them are novels and the third a historical nonfiction..

Thanks!