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Archive for July, 2010

Moola4Books and Buyback101 Added

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

I’ve just finished adding two new vendors to the site, bringing to total number of searchable sites up to 43.

Moola4Books is a company based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana that has been buying and selling books since 2008. The initial pricing that I’ve see looks like these guys have pretty competitive pricing.

Buyback101.com is based out of Florida and specializes in K-12 books, so they may buy some of those books in quantities that other textbook companies won’t.

I’ve had a good amount of communication with both companies prior to getting them enabled today. Both seem very eager to provide excellent customer service and to provide accurate and prompt payments. I’d encourage you to give them a try when you see the opportunity. And please remember to leave feedback once you have completed a transaction or two.

Thanks,
Brandon Checketts
BookScouter.com

Bookscouter Tools

Sunday, July 18th, 2010
  • Multi-book lookup
    • Use this page to look up prices for multiple ISBN’s at a time.
    • OR insert the URL of a web page and we will look up any ISBN’s found on that page
  • Historic Buyback Price Lookup
    • This searches for all past price lookups for the given ISBN. It includes results from all vendors and displays the maximum price found on each day.
  • Recently Searched High Value Books
  • Paperback Swap Bookshelf Value
    • When you enter a URL, the system will fetch that URL and then look for anything that appears to be an ISBN. Often times it finds things that look like an ISBN which actually aren’t
  • BookProspector Price Lookup
    • You can use this page to look up multiple prices from BookProspector.com’s site. Enter your bookprospector username and password, and and email address where the results will be sent.

Students: Send Us Your Required List of Books

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

It seems that students across the country are complaining about the rising cost of textbooks. However, I believe that students who buy and sell their books online can actually pay less for their books than ever before. There is getting to be more and more competition with companies who want to buy those used books. The competition is getting so fierce, in fact, that you can often sell a book back for almost as much as you paid for it.

I’d like to gather some data from real students who are currently in college. If you are a student, or know a student, please submit the following:

College:
Major:
Year:
ISBNs from your required textbooks

I’m then going to go through all of the submitted data and try to calculate how much students are paying for books, and how much they could save if they bought and sold them online.

Feel free to submit responses to this thread, or to email them to me at students@bookscouter.com

Top Sellers for May & June 2010

Monday, July 5th, 2010

The following sites were the most popular in May and June 2010 according to the number of visitors sent from BookScouter. This is a good indication of which websites offered the highest prices during the month.

  1. Textbooksrus.com
  2. Powells Books
  3. Amazon Buyback
  4. FirstClassBooks.com
  5. Textbooks.com
  6. Sellbackyourbook.com
  7. Cash4books.com
  8. BookByte.com
  9. CKYbooks
  10. Better World Books

Bookstore or Bookscouter?

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

When it comes to selling your books back at the end of the semester, some may settle for the bookstores low low price because they don’t want to worry about it any longer. But for those of you who are willing to search around and find the highest price, Bookscouter.com is the place to go.

For instance, lets do a test. We are going to use the UGA bookstore and Bookscouter.com to get the buyback prices for six Psychology books. With this data we see that selling your books at Bookscouter.com can give you 200 dollars more than going to your local bookstores.


Buy Back Prices

ISBN New UGA Buyback Bookscouter.com
0547148348 $169.95 $50 $82.34
0980147808 $118.99 $42 $89.75
0495811335 $125.95 $37 $ 66.26
0205654150 $144.2 $43 $ 72.73
0073380792 $156 $20 $55.28
0521861810 $91 $10 $36.7
Total $806 $202 $403