If you are annoyed at the fact you are spending waaaayyy too much money on textbooks, stop stressing!
You should be able to get most of it back, textbooks hold their worth fairly well and there is always somebody looking to get them a little bit cheaper so it’s a win win for everyone.
First off, the best place to sell/buy them cheaper if you are organised are the second hand book sales that happen usually in the first week of semester. For more information search “book exchange” from the Fed Uni website 🙂
There is also a page on Facebook specifically for this called “Federation University Textbook Exchange“, look them up and add yourself to the group – its public.
Other than that, here are a few additional ways to buy books online:
- www.ABE.com – bit of a hit and miss, but if your course requires the book to be bought new then this is worth a look.
- www.studentVIP.com.au – register a free account and be connected with other students looking to buy/sell books second hand.
- Aannd then there’s Ebay – which has worked for me really well. You can usually pick up a used or new textbook a lot cheaper than full price and when you go to sell them it’s really easy to list.Just search up the book you want to sell, weigh up the average price you think you could get for it. Click into one that looks like it’s being sold brand new and click ‘Sell one like this’ (usually under the main photo on the desktop site), that way all the details are pre-filled in for you and all you have to do is upload your own photos and add anything in the description that you may feel is necessary like any damage or highlighting etc. After that you just set your price; all of this only takes a few minutes and then you can just leave it until it sells.
Textbooks tend to be a huge expense for the majority of students as we have no damn money in the first place 🙁 This can be a way to offset that. Think, if you were able to sell all the books you used in first semester by the time second rolls around, then that is the cost of the second semesters worth of books already paid for!
You’re welcome 😉
– Sam