Purge Thursday: I hated your book.

[snidegrrl]

This post is manually crossposted because the Livejournal Crossposter has decided to stop working. It's really irritating me. Anyways. I originally posted this on the actual Thursday on Wordpress.

Comments

[belladonnalin]

I'd totally take a sampler of anything but Zero and the #1 Ladies Detective Agency - I have both of those.

I'd pay you whatever - $10 or something?

[snidegrrl]

I'll have to see what hasn't been explicitly claimed and hand some stuff off that I think you like! Can you send me an email with your address?

[rshackleford]

Is that Baltimore book by Mike Mignola? I would love to give it a second home, as I have wanted to read it for a while but not ordered it or seen it at the library.

I might also be up for the Gordimer, if there are no other takers, but I am much more lukewarm on her.

[rshackleford]

Also, selling random stuff on Amazon marketplace is hit or miss, but extremely easy. I prefer it to eBay, by a lot. If you price your stuff reasonably, it goes pretty quickly.

[snidegrrl]

The Baltimore got claimed by someone over on the Wordpress blog, I am sorry to say!

I would be happy to give you the Gordimer book!

[turtleblues]

I sold a lot of school books on Amazon- but that was several years ago (I sold enough to pay for a birthday party for Kiddo at the local swimming pool). At the time, there was a fixed shipping and handling rate- and for heavy books, the actual shipping cost far exceeded the set rate. The only way I could even come close to affording to ship some of the heavier ones was through using media mail- then some of the students got their undies in a bunch waiting for the book ot arrive. Make sure you use tracking numbers. Not sure whether the shipping wieght's still set like that- but it's something to keep in mind when you sell.

[snidegrrl]

Yeah, it really seems like the shipping mess is what might make it more hassle than it was worth.

[turbogrrl]

A fisheye will work with wacky fisheye distortion. A wide lens like a 12mm will also work, with different distortion. Or you could photo stitch.

We have both a fisheye and a 12-24mm zoom; you're welcome to play.

[snidegrrl]

When can you come over!! :)

[serendipity9000]

I have sold a fair number of books on half.com (which is in ebay's world now). Sometimes they linger - sometimes they go fast.

I also list books on bookmooch.com - and that has been fun. If you aren't familiar with it, you pay postage to send books to people who want them - then someone else pays postage to send you books you want from the books available. I will say that right now I have an issue of too many points (1 point = 1 book sent from within your country) -- but I have a new plot that involves getting my son's school to sign up for bookmooch so I can give those points to them. His librarian is reading up on it now. You can also donate points to an assortment of charities.

My formula is that if a books sells for less than about $3 on Amazon or Half that it isn't worth the hassle to sell it and I put it up on bookmooch instead.

[snidegrrl]

The bookmooch idea would be good... for someone who wants more books. I want no more books! Kind of... I need to be less acquisitive and use the library as much as possible. Although I guess in theory you could just rotate them back out at will.