Textbooks Rental - Rent your textbooks?

In the past two years, a movement that originated in the explosive online booking: Vacation textbooks. The rumor is out, and my Facebook is full of messages from students jet the wonder of this phenomenal business model, like the invention of the turbo-or hand-held device according to the model of social networks.

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That has to sell textbooks online for many years and have the gift to evaluate the value of time and money, I'm not at allconvinced.

A typical example, with realistic possibilities:

A site that offers a manual car, like a book with the title "International Business" for $ 65. In the university library, the book sells for $ 180. Is the current price on the Internet at large sites such as Half.com Amazon.com and eBay for a used book is about $ 90. Seems obvious, right?

I'm not so sure. If these options in terms of what the student is considered leasing NET actually the second bestOption.

Here's the scoop: Buy the shop manual for college is usually the worst choice for your portfolio. If you buy a book of more than $ 180, it is likely that the library offer $ 45 - $ 85 if sold back to them. If the repayment amount will be at $ 65, you are a net loss of $ 115 this book. Ouch. Say you in four other categories of books in the same price, a likely scenario are enrolled. Multiply your net loss of $ 65 for fiveClasses and whose total income is $ 575 for the semester. Surprisingly Ouch.

If you rent the previous manual, we are at $ 65, and in some cases, $ 3 - $ 5 for shipping back to the operating lease company at the end of the semester (. Always mail the media the way cheaper), net cost of $ 69. Multiply that by five years is for all classes and the entire burden of textbooks for the semester, $ 345. Better, but ....

How about a third option? For example, you buyBook on Half.com for $ 90, and at the end of the semester, it takes 10 minutes to a half.com account (you need a debit / credit card, your bank) to create and then sell $ 83 online. You will be reimbursed by the majority of programs (probably net - $ 1.00 on this post for sending the media) and half.com take a commission of ten percent. Your Cost: $ 16.00. Multiply that by five years for all classes and the manual of the total cost is $ 80 forSemester.

It is clear that the buying and selling online is the best way if you want to reduce the cost of textbooks. And when the first books before everyone else (in December for the spring semester in late August and July / beginning of the fall semester), buy is probably only $ 70 will spend compared to $ 90 of the book to offer online always plenty available. If you sell at the right time (wait until the last two weeks in January and the first half of September) whento make purchases all over the world and supply of school books are dry, you can use your book to more than what you bought to sell.

As for the buying and selling online, the most common question I often hear "but do not want the problem of creating an account, sales, etc etc deal" may be a valid objection, but in reality is what the value of your time ? If you spend 40 minutes in the first transaction includes account set-up time and 20 minutes per pound for the remainderTransactions, savings, now that you created with the purchase and sale or for rent $ 132.50 per hour. This is your time worth $ 132.50 per hour?

In addition to online sales for a seamless continuity to give a very accurate description when you create the subscription and send the instructions quickly, as within two days from the date of sale. And if you just bought an international edition online, they do not sell to sell on amazon.com or half.com, against its policieseBay, however. In fact, I would avoid that this international edition books, if you are a beginner.

Another objection I hear is: "But I keep the book as a reference." My next article will focus on a strategy can, the savings and the sale price of college textbooks, reference books and are waiting to maximize focus. Say what? It is much easier than you think.

Please send me more tips on how to reduce the cost of textbooks and to maximize the value of his books. There are more thanMethods and strategies for improvement of this process, the rate of payment to increase savings or sell their college textbooks can.

President Christopher Happy Time happytimebooks@live.com Books

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