Do you sell your A2 books to AS students when done?

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DD finished A2 exams recently and is keen to sell her texts and study guides via a well-known auction site, thinking to release some cash for univ. I'm not convinced it's worth it, looking at postage rates and seller fees generally. Anyone had any success at this?

Why not try webuybooks.co.uk they will quote how much they are prepared to pay and they give you the label to send via Collect Plus so no postage fees. You can register and download the app and scan the books' barcodes to see offer. I just sold a small parcel of books to them to test the waters and they paid exactly what they quoted and I had the money in my bank account less than a week after I sent the package. They quoted me similar prices to Amazon trade-in for some used textbooks (and you get money rather than Amazon vouchers) and they didn't seem to be so fussy about condition, they accept underlining, highlighting etc. I guess you may get higher elsewhere if textbook is in pristine condition though because their offer is based on OK used condition and they don't pay more if good as new.

It's worth a try. A private seller on the well know auction site gets 20 free listings per month. Make sure that you weigh the books first along with whatever packaging you would use (free bubble wrap from supermarket veg sections) like recycled cardboard from Amazon or a cardboard box. Check what the postage would cost from Royal Mail www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/RM_Business_Price_Guide_June2014.pdf and for heavier books use someone like MyHermes www.myhermes.co.uk/our-services/our-prices.html who will collect or you can drop off at collection points like petrol stations or shops. On books the fees are 10% of the total selling price including the shipping charge.

You can try auction selling where you would start the auction at the minimum price you would be willing to accept as you may only get one bid. Alternatively you can have a buy it now price instead which is a fixed price. Make sure that you cover the cost of shipping and fees in your selling price above what you want for the book. You can always reduce the price a bit if it doesn't sell after a few weeks.

Thanks posters. Webuybooks looks promising as we've checked the postage rates and it looks a tad steep if we were to use that well-known auction site..... :)

Someone I was talking to recently has a son about to go into y12 and he needs to buy all his own books and she's got nearly all of them from that WKAS. So clearly people use it - whether it makes the seller money I don't know! I've sold quite a lot of books on Amazon - there's a flat rate for postage, so unless you get a decent price on the book it's easy to spend it all on postage, so be careful! I just sent 15 books to their trade in deal and got forty five quid.