Selling Books
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I pay
10% of the cover price for anything that I pick out. So
a book with a cover price of $10.00 would get you $1.00
cash.
I am asked
all the time "What kind of books do you buy?"
This
question is difficult to answer because I buy all kinds
of books and there are always exceptions making it
difficult to put my answer into a nutshell.
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All you can really do is bring your books in. I look
through them and pick out what I need and pay 10% of
the cover price in cash.
If
the books are the right kind there is almost no
limit to how much I will buy.
I do
not deal in rare or valuable books (for example:
signed first editions) so I am unable to do any type
of book appraisals.
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My decision on what to buy is based
on a number of different factors such as:
desirability, market value, condition, and my current stock
levels.
In no case would I agree to purchase
or evaluate books without seeing them in person.
However, if you call and give me some idea of what
types of books you have, I can probably say whether
it is worth making a trip to the store.
No appointment is necessary — I am
happy to look at books anytime during
store hours.
You must bring the books into the store. I do not
make house calls and cannot leave the store to
look in your trunk.
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I am a general used book store with many different
subject categories, so I am interested in a wide
range of subjects
With so many books in the world, and
my own stock continually changing, it is impossible
to say exactly what I'll be interested in at any one
time.
However, I can say exactly what kinds of books I am
NOT interested in:
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Old hardback fiction (now in paperback)
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Damaged books
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Books with highlighting or
underlining
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Textbooks
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Encyclopedias
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Magazines
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Computer Books
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Anything by Readers Digest
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Anything by Time/Life
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Books in foreign languages
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Romance novels are good as trade-ins but I never
pay cash for them because I have so many
already.
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There are no
guarantees but here is a list of books I am very
likely to buy:
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Current hardback
fiction (not yet in paperback)
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Books which are CURRENTLY
on the bestseller list
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Classics: for
example: Steinbeck, Hemingway etc.
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Science Fiction
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Graphic Novels
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Murder Mysteries
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Beat authors:
for example: Kerouac, Bukowski, Hunter S
Thompson
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Louis Lamour,
Zane Grey & William Johnstone
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Philosophy
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Science
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History
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Historical
Fiction
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Cookbooks
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Surfing, The
Beatles, Yoga, Learning Spanish
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Art Books
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Tom Robbins,
Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut
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Do you give "lump sums" for books. For example
$20 for a whole batch?
No. I must pick
and choose the books which have value to me and give
cash based on 10% of the cover price. Then when I am
done if you want to leave the rest of the books
behind that is fine.
I accept all books as donations.
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When you are done buying books and I leave the
rest behind what happens to them? Do you throw them
away?
Most donated
books end up on my $1.00 tables so they get recycled
back into the book community.
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Can I sell books
and trade books at the same time?
Yes. I have
stricter standards for books I pay cash for and many
books I would not buy are perfectly good for
trade--ins.
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