'Tis the season to sell books
Last night, because Christine and I weren’t having much success coming up with an activity for our date night, we decided to list a bunch of old books (30, all told) on Amazon Marketplace.
We’d done this before, and have had good success selling them — it helps that we’re both coming from library backgrounds, and the idea of dog-earing a page makes us shudder, never mind the absurdity of taking a pen or a highlighter to a book.
Well, late August is apparently the time to be listing books, especially school books, because within five minutes of entering them, we got an E-Mail saying that one of them had sold.
Ten minutes later, so had another.
Less than an hour later, the unopened DVD set, which we expected to go first*, sold.
By morning, so had a fourth, and a fifth did before lunch.
We’re up to six sold books out of thirty in the first 24 hours. So, if you have any old school books that you want to sell, now’s the time to do it!
* Every year for the past few years, one of my relatives sends me a DVD set of a different popular TV show for Christmas. I appreciate the thought, but my total TV consumption for an entire year is usually less than what you’ll find on one of those DVD sets.
Last year, it was a season of Seinfeld, so I figured it might be worth listing on Amazon, and I’d get something else instead. To our surprise, it had sold by the next morning, and at a pretty good price. So, given that, we were curious if this set (of Everybody Loves Raymond) would go as quickly, since it wasn’t near Christmas any more.
