How to sell second hand books
Can You Sell Unwanted Books Online?
hello and welcome to Spencer's library
I'm Claudia and today I want to see if I
can sell my unwanted books and similarly
if you can do the same so here are just
some of the 37 books that I want to get
rid of I got these books from various
places some of them are books that I
have read but didn't particularly enjoy
some of them are books that I've read
that were kind of okay but that I don't
really want to keep on my bookshelf I am
trying to curate my bookshelf in a way
that all of the books on it are there
for a reason they're either books that I
love that I want to reread all that I
have some other sentimental value and
anything that doesn't fit that category
will be gotten rid of some of these
books they're randomly are books that I
haven't read at all they are just books
that I once picked up while I was
walking around town and saw them in a
skip yes
shouldn't have done that but tell me
could you walk past some books that
someone wanted to been and not pick them
up so anyway in all I have 37 books that
I wanted to get rid of and I wanted to
test out different websites that
bulk-buy books off you that claim that
you can just get rid of all of young
wanted stuff and get a little bit of
cash for it so the four websites that I
tested for this we buy books at UK music
magpie at UK mo Moxie at UK and Zipit
calm all four will be linked in the
description box so the way that these
websites work is fairly similar across
all of them you enter the title or ISBN
or barcode of your book and then they
tell you whether they wanted or not and
how much they are willing to pay for it
all of these websites all of these now
three of these websites have got mobile
phone apps as well so we wrote books
music mark PI and mo marks or have phone
apps and I will
recommend you get the phone up if you
are planning to use one of these
websites because with your phone you can
just scan the barcode and it's much
quicker than to type in every single
ISBN like you have to do on as if it
calm so I added my 37 books to all four
of these websites some using the app and
some just typing in the number now we're
going to compare them so let's start
with the first of the search results if
you just Google selling unwanted books
or where to sell my books you will get
two we buy books at UK which after
typing in 37 books I feel like is a
slightly inaccurately named websites
because turns out they don't actually
want my books out of 37 books that I
entered into that website they only
wanted 11 of them and they were willing
to give me two pounds 70 for those 11
books now that averages out at just
under 25 people which isn't a whole lot
but to make it even more annoying they
don't actually want your books unless
you have a minimum value of 5 pounds so
I am quite a bit under that minimum
value so I couldn't even sell my books
to rebuy books that code at UK if I
wanted to next I tried Zefat calm that's
one of the four websites that doesn't
have a mobile phone app it does take
quite a while to type in all of the
numbers but they actually wanted 14 of
my 37 books and they were willing to
give me 6 pounds 78 for them that was
also the most value per book because
that averages out at 48 P per book so
that's pretty good already there minimum
value is also 5 pounds so I would be
able to actually sell my books to Zipit
calm next up I tried
music magpie calm they wanted 13 of my
37 books so that's almost as many as if
it but they are only willing to pay 2
pounds
Denine for them so as well as not
reaching the minimum there that is just
is really really bad Valley
I haven't actually calculated the value
for that one let's see two pounds twenty
nine divided by thirteen so music magpie
are willing to pay me eighteen p per
book on average and a lot of the books
scanned at just a single penny so yeah
that's the least value I've gotten out
of all of these websites but on the plus
side they're scanning up is pretty good
it scans really quickly and it works
pretty well last up I tried was mo mocks
code at UK and they were happy to take
twenty of my book so that's more than
half that's most out of any of the four
websites that I tried but they will only
give me four pounds ninety-nine for them
so that averages out at about twenty
five people but also their minimum is
ten pounds so I need another twenty
books at least to add to that in order
to sell any of them
so whatever learned from this experiment
well I've learned that as if it comm has
got the best value per book on average
and it's really quite easy to reach
their minimum so I'm going to pack up
the fourteen books that as if it calm
once-off me and take them to the local
collects plus store which is basically
every corner shop in every town in the
UK so that's going to be easy enough and
then collect my six pounds seventy eight
which is not a whole lot of money but it
is some money I mean with six pound
seventy eight and get myself another six
books in the charity shops and I'll be
rid of some of my bulk so in terms of
would I recommend doing this and which
of the services would I recommend so I'm
actually quite impressed with if it calm
because an average of about 45 people
buck or whatever that's not bad at all
especially if you like me tend to get
your books either for free or for very
cheap from charity shops so I'm getting
a little bit of value
of that but also they seem to make it
quite easy to actually sell them you the
downside is that they don't have a phone
up that you can use to scan your books
so you do have to type in every single
ISBN number if you have the time and if
you have a large collection of books
that you really want to get rid of then
sure give it a go but it's not going to
make you rich that's for sure hello this
is editing cloudy I know she doesn't
come out of the woodwork often been here
I am I just realized that I did a really
bad job at explaining if I think that
using a website like Zephyr comm to sell
you books is actually good value or not
and you will need to think about this in
economical terms so with for the six
pounds seventy that I'm going to get I
need to think about how much work I am
putting into this my estimation is that
typing in the books packing up the box
and taking it to the parcel shop is
going to take me a total of maybe 45
minutes and that is with the assumption
that I'm printing the packaging slip at
the university while I'm already there
because if I had to specifically walk to
university to print it that would be an
extra half hour on top of that so let's
assume I'm putting 45 minutes of work
into this and I'm getting 6 pounds 17 is
that a good value for my work well for
me it is because in my day job I work
for minimum wage which is 7 pounds
eighty-three per hour so getting 6
pounds 70 45 minutes work is ok however
if your time is worth more money than it
might not be worth selling your books
for you if you generally make 30 40 50
who knows how much per hour then getting
6 pounds 70 for 3/4 hours worth of work
is peanuts and it's probably not worth
it for you so always think about your
own circumstances your own time
constraints and how much work you are
willing to put in for the revenue that
you get and it's in cloudy out I would
like
no from you if you have ever bulk sold
your books and which service did use
this was all quite UK centric of course
so I'd be interested to know especially
if you are in another country if you're
in the US or any other country in the
world if you have managed to bulk sell
your books and what sort of value did
you get for that and what sort of
experience did you have I'm now going to
pack up my 14 books and take them to the
to the collect shop and then I have to
think of what to do with the others I'm
probably going to take them to the
charity shops because as far as I'm
aware charity shops are able to get some
value out of any books that they receive
even if they don't put it back on the
shelf and sell it so even if you have
books that you're pretty sure no one
wants to buy take them to the charity
shop anyway and they will be able to get
some value out of them even if it is
recycling value thank you for watching
bye
