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Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 11:24 am Post subject: Book price question
Software people - can you help? Is this really worth that much? (I'm pricing some donations, can't do this one on experience and the price seems staggering!) Hmm, I don't think it is but suggestions would be helpful!)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Book price question

Cathryn wrote:

Software people - can you help? Is this really worth that much? (I'm pricing some donations, can't do this one on experience and the price seems staggering!)

Hmm, I don't think it is but suggestions would be helpful!)

I guess it depends on the right punter coming in, it looks like quite a techy book, would it even sell in a charity shop?

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 11:57 am Post subject:
Yes, kind of think of us as a bookshop that gives what it makes to Oxfam, rather than a charity shop. I'm just pricing our several hundred heap of academic texts. They're averaging at about �10 - �20 and I expect to sell all of them. Donors will be pleased, students will get a bargain and Oxfam will do well. I've just seriously underpriced and sold some Biochem books though.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 12:01 pm Post subject:
Any medieval stuff there? Not original, obviously...

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: Book price question

Cathryn wrote:

It would also depend on how close the nearest educational establishment was that recommended it as a course book. Can you get hold of reading lists from nearby colleges/unis?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 12:08 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Yes, kind of think of us as a bookshop that gives what it makes to Oxfam, rather than a charity shop.

I'm just pricing our several hundred heap of academic texts. They're averaging at about �10 - �20 and I expect to sell all of them. Donors will be pleased, students will get a bargain and Oxfam will do well.

I've just seriously underpriced and sold some Biochem books though.

Ah, students. Didn't think of that. A lot of those techy books are really expensive due to small print runs, does that help?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 12:23 pm Post subject:
Problem with software books is they're obsolete often before they hit the shelves. However topics like this are largely independent on emergent technologies and so retain their value for longer. No idea how much it's worth though.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 2:48 pm Post subject:
About �20 I think and hopefully it will sell here. Yes, we're a University town, the population tends to double when the students return. Reading lists can help but these are donated books so I tend not to worry too much and I can (shamelessly) undercut most of the opposition (which tends to be online) and still make a good amount of money.

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 14 9:12 am Post subject:
For academic books that is not that surprising a price. If it's in a charity shop it will be worth pennies because the "right" punter will not come in. I wouldn't sell it through a charity shop, but put it up on amazon to sell.

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