Clean up time!

[dejapooh]

I was at this estate sale and I found some books that had REAL potential. They were these really strange religious texts about theosophy and so on, Eastern religious texts, and so on. Very very unusual stuff. Many of the books were first editions, most were on Amazon for $20 to $200 each. For a buck each, I bought about 20 of them and left hundreds. I went back to the estate sale about 30 minutes before the end on the last day, and offered $10 for another 40 or 50 of these books. My thinking is that if I sell 3 books, I will have paid for the lot. If I can't sell any, then I will donate them to a library or something. Either way, Low risk, High possible returns. By wife saw some wardrobes in the garage that would be perfect to organize my Stuff For Sale. They wanted $75 for the 3 wardrobes, my wife was tickled, so I paid the lady. She then asked me if I wanted more books. I said that it depended on which ones. She said if I could work around their schedule, I could take all of the 500 or so books left. They handed me about 50 shopping bags and my wife and I started stuffing the bags. We loaded the wardrobes into my Father in Law's pick up, and filled them with books. By the time they had to leave, I probably got about 250 books. Many of them religious of various sorts. Some of them just fiction novels. Toward the end, they wanted to take off. I knew I would not be able to go back today, so we were just grabbing what we could get. My wife unloaded everything with her father (setting up the wardrobes where she wanted them, filling the bottom with all of the books), while I worked with a friend on our taxes. Anyhow... This could be an amazing score, or it could be an amazing waste of time. Hard to say.

I will say that I've had much better luck with Amazon selling books than using Ebay. I find ebay to be a very inefficient place to sell books.

 

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[TreasureHunters]

any recovery related books?

 

[dejapooh]

I remember seeing one, but I am not sure If I grabbed it. It seemed to be the kind of book you would find at any book store... Paperback... are Newer recovery books collectible? I have heard a bit about some older books.

 

[TreasureHunters]

I remember seeing one, but I am not sure If I grabbed it. It seemed to be the kind of book you would find at any book store... Paperback... are Newer recovery books collectible? I have heard a bit about some older books.

not newer, but older first editions are, I was just wondering, always looking for books I dont have for my collection if there modern

 

[Ursus]

Out of mainstream religious materials can get you some good returns. Group a few books together of similar subjects and you will make a steady stream of a few bucks a lot. But some things can get you $$$. I bought a deck of tarot cards for a buck. They were used but I recognized the group "order of the golden dawn". Turned out to be a first edition of that deck and, even used condition I sol it for about 85.00 and the buyer was very happy. My wife is nervous about that stuff and they have stay out in the garage. She about went nuts when I purchased some voodoo items to resell.....

 

[diggummup]

Out of mainstream religious materials can get you some good returns. Group a few books together of similar subjects and you will make a steady stream of a few bucks a lot. But some things can get you $$$. I bought a deck of tarot cards for a buck. They were used but I recognized the group "order of the golden dawn". Turned out to be a first edition of that deck and, even used condition I sol it for about 85.00 and the buyer was very happy. My wife is nervous about that stuff and they have stay out in the garage. She about went nuts when I purchased some voodoo items to resell.....

That's funny. My wife is the same way. I have an older Ouiji board, a book of runes with the stones, an antique demonology book and several other things that she won't let me keep in the house. I don't believe in hocus-pocus but I gotta keep the wife happy. One day i'll get around to listing them.

I believe you about selling books on ebay. Whenever I go online to research a certain book, Amazon results usually show up first on my searches. I haven't sold any books for a long time because they don't do well on ebay. I really have to give Amazon a try when I get the time.

 

[dejapooh]

I really have to give Amazon a try when I get the time.

Text books are a Home Run waiting to happen. Last weekend, I bought some text books on how to run and interpret MRIs. I got 5 text books for $20. There were 2 sets of 2 (one set new, the other set new inside, damaged covers). The single book only had 2 examples on Ebay, List price was $279. The 2 on Ebay were $440 and $640. I put mine up for $279 and it sold in about 8 hours. Amazon is GREAT for rare books, Text books, rare DVD's and so on. Sometimes the things sit for a while, sometimes they sell quickly. It is hard to say. You may remember a few months back I bought 2 large boxes of Nursing text books. I put them up, now, I am down to my last 2 or 3 books. I've sold about $250 out of those $5 boxes. The key with Text books is making sure it is either the newest edition, or the second newest edition. Most colleges now have their students buy every other edition instead of every edition. That was the used books are in circulation longer and prices are cheaper.

 

[dejapooh]

Amazon fees are quite high, and the set shipping fee never covers the actual cost of actually shipping the item, but for rare books, text books, rare video's, New items of all sorts, I prefer Amazon to Ebay. I sold a USED bug zapper yesterday for $74.99. I have a new one that has been sitting for about 1 week at $90. It should go as soon as we are closer to summer.

 

[Beans]

I bought out an estate one time of all their books. The were old western 50-60 era. Most had signatures and/or inscriptions both in the hardback and paperback. So be sure to check for autographs in the non text books.