10 Places to Sell Books Online

The following is a guest post from Bailey Harris. Bailey writes for the Health Insurance Blog.

If you are looking for new ways to make money online, consider selling some of your used books. There are several different sites that will buy books directly from you and others that will let you list your books for free. In most cases, you can receive payment via PayPal, check, or direct deposit. Here are 10 great places to sell both fiction and non-fiction online.

Half.com - This eBay site is one of the better known places to sell books online. You don't have to pay any listing fees until your book sells. The buyer pays the shipping and your list price. Half.com makes sure you get the money, direct depositing funds into your checking account twice each month.

Amazon - After registering for an Amazon seller account, you can begin selling books in the Amazon marketplace. Your items will be displayed right along with all of the other products that Amazon sells. If you have a lot of inventory, you can get your own branded, custom online store. Any money that you make will be deposited (by Amazon) in your bank account.

Facebook Marketplace - You can sell almost anything, including books, in the Facebook Marketplace. There is no charge for listing your books. Listings will stay posted for 30 days and can even be displayed on your regular Facebook page.

Powell's Books - Powell's will buy your used books from you. Enter in the ISBN numbers of the books you want to sell. Powell's will make an offer on the books. If you like it, you can ship your books to the Powell's warehouse and collect your cash.

CKY Books - CKY Books will also buy your books directly from you. Some of the books you can sell include textbooks, religious books, self-help books, travel books, and current fiction. CKY takes care of shipping costs and pays via check or PayPal.

Cash4Books.net - This site specializes in fiction, non-fiction, and textbooks published after 2008. Enter in the ISBN of the book you want to sell and find out how much you will be paid for the books. Ship the books to Cash4Books.net for free and get paid via PayPal or check.

Paperback Swap - Paperback Swap is designed for people who want to sell books and get more books as payment. All you have to do is list books that you are willing to swap. When people request your books, you send them out and get a credit that can be used to request books from other Paperback Swap users.

Moola4Books - This site has paid out more than $13 million to private book sellers. You can ship your books to the site for free using FedEx and receive your payments via PayPal or check. Payments are usually made within one business day.

Sell Back Your Book - Sell Back Your Book will not only buy your books, but will also pay any shipping fees associated with the transaction. This site also buys used books from libraries.

BookScouter - You can't sell books on BookScouter, but you can use the site's comparison tool to see which book buyers will give you the best price on used books. BookScouter's tool searches 40 different buyer sites and works especially well for people who are trying to sell textbooks.

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The Best Advice to Making Money Online…Don’t Lose it to Investment Scams

The following is a guest post by Bryan Sayers, who writes on the topic of online forex investments. He welcomes your questions and comments to this post.

Perhaps the biggest misconception among those seeking to make money online is that it’s easy. An easy buck! However, in reality, generating income online requires the same diligence and hard work as making money in any other entrepreneurial venture. Having this mindset alone can help a person avoid many of the investment and financial scams that litter the web. In this article, we will identify several red flags that often appear in online investment scams.

The Guaranteed Return

The biggest red flag in an investment opportunity is the promise of a guaranteed return. If a website or financial product ever promises a guaranteed return, it is one of two things. One, an outright scam in which the seller is intentionally attempting to bilk you out of your hard-earned money. Or two, a seller who is ignorant of the true nature of financial markets and finance in general and believes they have stumbled upon the golden secret. Either way, you want to steer clear of the situation. The world of finance is unpredictable. A basic tenet of market theory is that anything can happen at any time. Thus, no investment is 100% secure.

Cheap Sales Language

Earn Huge Profits in No Time At All!! Work Next To Your Pool From a Laptop Computer!! 6 Days of Work To Earn 3 Months of Pay!! Many investment scams prey on our desires for financial success and independence. Scam artists are fully aware that anyone looking at their advertisement is looking at it because they want to make money and they want to be financially independent. So instead of sharing the practical steps to generating lasting wealth, including hard work, discipline, diligence, content-area expertise etc, they instead appeal straight to our emotions. When you see this type of cheap sales language accompanying an investment opportunity, let is serve as a warning sign.

Transfer of Funds

Any investment opportunity that requires you to wire transfer funds to a certain bank account should be treated with the most extreme levels of caution. This can apply to several different types of investment scenarios.

First, let’s examine financial brokers. Many people who are seeking to generate money online become interested in the possibility of trading financial markets. It should be understood that financial markets are heavily regulated by government agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC), and the National Futures Association (NFA). The best wisdom is to conduct business only with firms and persons registered with these organizations. Although registration with these government agencies is not a guarantee against fraud by any means, it can greatly reduce the probability. An individual should exercise great caution in ever depositing funds with a “broker” that is not registered with any of these agencies. The reason is because these unregistered brokers can simply close up shop any day, and run off with all the deposited funds in their firm. That means you, the investor, would be out of all your money.

Second, let’s briefly examine a request for money. Any investment opportunity that requires you to wire money or send goods to an undisclosed destination should be avoided. These scams are rampant on online advertisement venues such as Craigslist.

The requirements to making money online are no different than making money in any other business venture. It takes hard work, discipline and time. It won’t happen overnight. Simply being aware of the few red flags discussed in this article will help people navigate the sometimes murky waters of online investments and business opportunities.

Five Alternative Sites To Sell Stuff Online

I have written enough of these “sell your stuff online” posts to be running out of titles for them. You can find all the others listed at the bottom of this post. Any sites I come across in the future will be incorporated into the Weekly Roundup that is posted every Saturday.

Money Auctionz – Register with them and sell your currency and coins. There is no fee to join or to use their basic listing option.

JimBob’sList – This new site is sort of a rural version of craigslist. A check of my county in Iowa found a handful of listings. I am definitely going to try to sell on this one as a supplement to my listings on other sites.

eRock – Got some rock-n-roll memorabilia just sitting around collecting dust? Throw it up on eRock. Register with the site then choose from categories ranging from posters to 8 Tracks to guitar picks.

Mommy Auctions - Every parent knows how quickly you go through clothes as your children grow. If you find yourself the owner of outsized kids clothes in nice condition see if you can sell or swap them on this site.

Real People Real Stuff – Shoot a quick 30 to 60 second video of you hawking your stuff and post it on this site. They encourage you to be funny and compelling.

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Sell Your Stuff Online – Some Other Options

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Sell Your Stuff Online - Some Other Options

While eBay, Amazon and Craigslist all have individual strengths they bring to the online selling experience, there ARE other options to selling your stuff online. In no particular order here are a few other sites to try.

4 Sale 4 Now – You decide on a fair initial price to list your item at and decide how large of a discount you will allow during the buying process. Their listing fee is $2 and the final sale fee is 4% of the sale.

Alibris – Another option to sell your books, music, movies, etc. Their basic program, for sellers listing fewer than 1,000 items monthly, charges $1 per item sold, 15% commission and a $19.99 annual fee, but no monthly fees.

CeX – This site has predetermined what they will pay for games, DVD’s, electronics and other items. Search for what you have for sale and see what they will pay for it.

Oodle – Post ads for free for the items you have for sale and Oodle distributes it to hundreds of other classifieds sites.

The CD Exchange – Sell your CD’s and DVD’s on this site. Type in what you have and they will send you a quote. If it amounts to over $25 they will pay S & H.

Wherehouse - Sell them your CD’s, DVD’s and games. Type in the title of what you have to find out what they are paying.

Wigix – List your stuff for sale for free with no fees for items below $25.

New Era Antiques – Have any old electronics sitting around, or wondering what that radio from Aunt Mary is worth? Give NEA a try.

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Survey and Reward Sites Update

Six months ago I wrote a review of nine survey and reward sites I was trying. I decided to write a follow up on how they worked out, or didn’t.

My over all opinion is that most of them are a waste of time. The problem, it seems to me, is that you are not creating anything of value. The ½ hour you spend taking one survey for $2.00 could have been spent writing a post for a blog you have monetized, or an article for eHow. The time spent taking the survey paid you $2 for ½ hour of your time, period. The blog post or article could end up paying you much more, indefinitely, for that same ½ hour.

A few of the sites I like and will continue to use. But I think, given how many opportunities there are to make money online, you could get more for your time spent by creating something that could hang around and keep the money coming in.

Greenfield Online

I registered with them in May 2008 and by early September, after 76 surveys tried and only one success for a whopping $2, I had to give up on this one. I would get part of the way into the surveys only to be rejected by the dreaded “You did not qualify but have received an entry in our sweepstakes.” This site earned me the least amount of money for the most time spent.

My Points

This reward site gives you points by clicking on email ads they send you, as well as promos they offer from their partners. I registered with them in August 2008 and have earned 3,300 points so far just by completing my profiles and clicking on the 1 to 5 emails they send me a day. The points can be redeemed for gift cards from a variety of restaurants and stores. This takes me about 30 seconds a day. I like the site and will continue to use it, at least until I get my $25 Subway card.

American Consumer Opinion

I registered with this one in August 2008. I received only one survey from them, but I did qualify and complete it. I received a check for $4.00 from them but no more surveys. I finally cancelled my membership.

Valued Opinions

This site sent me nine surveys, only one of which I could complete, for 50 cents. Had to let this one go, too.

Your 2 Cents

This is another one that sent me plenty of surveys, only one that I completed for $2.00. Since their cash out minimum was $10 I wrote off the $2 and said goodbye to Y2C.

Opinion Outpost

I have made $76.20 from this one so far. They reward you with points, worth ten cents each, with a minimum of fifty points in your account to be able to cash out. They send a lot of surveys, usually pretty short and most of which I qualify for. That I qualify for so many means I am usually just deleting the emails because I don’t have time to take so many surveys. This site has earned me the most money for the least time spent.

Cash Crate

I have received $36.10 from them since joining, but have lost interest along the way. I can’t really put my finger on why, I just forget to visit. If you read reviews people either love this site or hate it. I have become indifferent to it. Strange…

Surf Bounty

Very similar to Cash Crate, but I cancelled for two reasons. One, I was already using Cash Crate, and I found one reward site is enough for me to spend time on. Two, I successfully completed two offers and never saw them credited to my account.

Own My Site

I registered with this reward site in August 2008. The concept is to use them to search the web and buy from their merchants. When you become a “stakeholder” the more you use the site, the larger your percentage stake in their revenue. I have earned around $10, deposited into my PayPal account, and I currently own a 0.07% stake in the site. My biggest problem is remembering to use them for Google searches, because you have to sign in for your usage to count.

What has been your experience with survey and reward sites?

Sell Your CDs & DVDs

I have music in my collection that covers the spectrum of sonic reproduction formats from vinyl to compact discs. My movie collection includes VHS and DVDs. Just a few years ago I was finding vinyl records, in good condition, for from $1 to $3 each, but prices have been rising. Eight track tapes are still floating around flea markets and garage sales to be had for a few dollars per groovy carrying case. Tape cassettes are down to fifty cents each, usually, and VHS tapes have fallen from a used price of $4 to $5 to an average of around a dollar now. Can CDs and DVDs be far behind in the face of Blu-ray and MP3 formats?

Offline places to try to sell them include independent music shops, which also usually buy and sell DVDs and games. Pawn shops will not pay much, but used book stores usually have multi media sections and I have found they will pay a little more than most.

Online there are the usual Amazon and eBay options, and I have even sold CDs from my house using Craigslist. Other online options include:

The CD Exchange: Your CDs and DVD’s must be in excellent condition and include all of the artwork. Fill out their online form listing what you have and they will email back what they want and what they will pay, either by check or store credit.

Wherehouse: Pretty much the same procedure as above except you can search their website to see if they want your items and how much they will pay. They are also a little more forgiving about the condition, such as a few light scratches are okay.

Second Spin: You can also search for what they want and they also accept games, like the first two.

Swap A CD and Swap A DVD: These are swapping sites, which strays a little from the gist of this post, but they do give you another option. Swap Tree is another swap site.

Income from Diverse Sources

Last winter I was in the process of figuring out my “want to do” list when I came across an article by Kate Luther. It defined what I was trying to assemble on my own and really helped me focus on the concept of making money online utilizing multiple income streams from diverse sources.