Selling Textbooks

[Matorbogl]

I want to sell my old textbooks, according to THIS website if I sold my books to the those who offer the most for them I could pull in around 210USD, if I sold just through Amazon I would get around 200USD. The catch is however that Amazon wont give me real cash, instead they give me gift cards, or in this case digital gift cards.

Now this is my conundrum, do I go with Amazon, a known quantity, but receive gift cards instead of "real" money, or do I go with the other merchants and get less money from other places that I don't know as well but for actual cash I can deposit into my bank account?

Thoughts? Opinions? I just want to make sure I can get the most out of these damned things.

PS: Also here's a list of the merchants I would potentially be selling my books to.
Abe Books
Amazon Buy Back
Bookbyte
E-Campus
Textbooks-R-Us
Valore Books

 

[Escaep]

Are you going to be buying textbooks again? If so I'd say the Amazon gift cards wouldn't be that bad since you can use them to buy more books next time.

 

[MJ12]

I have a bunch of textbooks I need to sell. However, I've never used Amazon to sell anything, does it cost money?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Well, if you use amazon often enough, it's a pretty decent deal. Personally I'd take it.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Just sold my physics and biology books on amazon. $30 for shit I spent $160 on years ago. Better than nothing.

 

[Matorbogl]

Just sold my physics and biology books on amazon. $30 for shit I spent $160 on years ago. Better than nothing.

Did you use the buyback thing or did you sell them directly yourself? If it was the former how long did it take for them from when you posted them to when you received the payment for them? And if it was the latter did you have any issues with selling directly?

Also, no I wasn't planning on buying any more textbooks, but I do use Amazon quite a bit for other things.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I just did the printing of the labels. It'll be a while I think. But yeah, I'm sure the amazon credit will be for anything from their website.

 

[dfc05]

I sold mine to people on campus taking the class the next semester. Got quite a bit of cash out of it. Obviously this is more difficult (it helped that there was a website set up for it at my school), but I didn't have to worry about shipping anything.

 

[Wanted Bob]

The main problem is that textbooks update so frequently, that the versions you bought at one point become obsolete and arent worth nearly as much.

I keep most of my textbooks, provide a lot of useful info (Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Japanese, Computer Science...).

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'm keeping the stuff I think will be relevant. Thus far it's just the Japanese books.