how many of you have worked with buy backs?

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Ok, this is not to be confused with store returns. For example, you may buy a text book for $75. At end of the semester, you sell it back for $30. I have had a lot of people asking me if I would buy back bikes. For example, I would sell a bike for $50 with the agreement that I would buy it back for $25. Some of them would follow through. Some would just keep the bike or sell to a classmate. That works greatly for me as that is one less bike to deal with. If I refused to offer buy backs, then I would never have made some sales in the first place. I'm pleased to offer buy backs.

Have any of you worked with buy backs as a seller and not buyer? Tell me about it.
 
Not exactly.

I have done the text book sell back. It's mostly a waste of time. I take computer courses, and very few of my books are eligible for selling back because they change the curriculum every year. What few I sold back were like, $10 for a book that cost me $125. Bah!
 
In college I attempted to do the book-buy-back thing, where you re-sell your course texts. I was graduating. I put up ads and tried the campus store but for whatever reason at the time the campus store didn't need or want these particular ones back and my posters weren't very useful. I finally was able to get someone to buy some of my Spanish books but the others i think I just donated somewhere.
 
Reba said:
Not exactly.

I have done the text book sell back. It's mostly a waste of time. I take computer courses, and very few of my books are eligible for selling back because they change the curriculum every year. What few I sold back were like, $10 for a book that cost me $125. Bah!
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Wow!! I can see how colleges are racking in profits. Big profits!!
 
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