Comments for BookScouter Blog https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Comment on Amazon Raises Prices for Selling Used Books by Julie Penney https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/amazon-raises-prices-selling-used-books/#comment-1058 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:34:27 +0000 https://bookscouter.com/blog/?p=498#comment-1058 My father-in-law had a well known book store here in Nashville, Tn. My husband has thousands of books that we could sell to free up room. I went to Amazon a few days ago to start selling. I closed my account today. They wanted 50% of the profit. That’s just not right. I have no idea what Mr. Lang was referring to, but it’s not worth selling books on Amazon anymore. Don’t do it.

]]> Comment on New Preferred Vendor, CollegeFocus by Kylie Sawhill https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/new-preferred-vendor-collegefocus/#comment-1033 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:13:16 +0000 https://bookscouter.com/blog/?p=513#comment-1033 In reply to Steven K Dick.

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]]> Comment on New Preferred Vendor, CollegeFocus by Steven K Dick https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/new-preferred-vendor-collegefocus/#comment-1029 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:43:26 +0000 https://bookscouter.com/blog/?p=513#comment-1029 I wouldn’t jump on the hooray bandwagon so quick. I have sent 2 buybacks to College Focus since January 24th. Neither have been paid. Neither have been marked as having been received even though USPS tracking shows delivered. The phone number listed on the website says look at the status online or email then hangs up on you. Emails to the company are not returned. They currently have over $100 worth of my books and I am beginning to have doubts I’ll ever see that money. My advice – STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!

]]> Comment on How to Judge the Condition of Your Book by How You Can Prospect For Gold In Used Books – All things thrift and resale https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/how-to-judge-the-condition-of-your-book/#comment-1012 Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:51:39 +0000 http://bsblog.wpengine.com/?p=118#comment-1012 […] BookScouter.com has a good general guide for condition categories.  Their site is for textbooks, but the same applies to all books. […]

]]> Comment on 10 Inspiring TED Talks about Books by panel interview https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/my-favorite-ted-talks-about-books/#comment-918 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:49:28 +0000 https://bookscouter.com/blog/?p=481#comment-918 Hey,
Thanks so much for this post. I really enjoy Ted Talks – they cover such a wide variety of topics and are so insightful! Chip Kidd is an excellent speaker, I found his talk really enjoyable. I will definitely check out the others!
Best,
Dennis

]]> Comment on Amazon Raises Prices for Selling Used Books by Richard Lang https://bsblog.wpenginepowered.com/amazon-raises-prices-selling-used-books/#comment-837 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:24:05 +0000 https://bookscouter.com/blog/?p=498#comment-837 This is a two edged sword. When selling books on Amazon that are reasonable this will amount to over a one dollar addition. So how and were you buy the books become more important than what you sell them for. The 501 3c Charities won’t care because they don’t have any money into the book and there labor is usual donated by volunteers . so it will just be a matter of raising the price by one dollar. At least the honest dealer will no longer hear I can buy that book for 1 cent. lets see what happens by July.

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