Some Gems
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I thought it might be useful to give you an idea of some gems you might expect to find if you get into online bookselling by showing you a few of the ones I have bought and sold in recent months.
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Real Estate Accounting and Mathematics Handbook/Book and Disk, by Wiley, Robert J., Sold for $260.04, purchased for $0.25.
Audio Cyclopedia, by Tremaine, Howard M., Sold for $199.99, purchased for $1.00.
Making Sense of Burgundy, by Kramer, Matt, Sold for $125.75, purchased for $2.00.
Wet Coastal Ecosystems, by Chapman, Valentine J. (editor), Sold for $165.00, purchased for $0.49.
Analysis And Design Of Airplane Structures, by Bruhn, B.S., Sold for $129.75, purchased for $1.00.
Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formula, by Wyszecki, Gunter; Stiles, W. S.; Wyszecki, G., Sold for $129.99, purchased for $1.00.
The Golfer and the Millionaire : It's about Having the Drive to Succeed, by Fisher, Mark, Sold for $94.10, purchased for $0.99.
Seepage, Drainage and Flow Nets, by Cedergren, Harry R., Sold for $92.99, purchased for $1.00.
Jenny and the Jaws of Life, by Willett, Jincy, Sold for $81.00, purchased for $1.00.
Wind Energy Comes of Age, by Gipe, Paul, Sold for $76.00, purchased for $4.00.
Introduction to Animal Behavior, by Siiter, Roland J., Sold for $74.99, purchased for $1.99.
Star Wars Starships of the Galaxy, by Stephens, Owen K. C., Sold for $67.99, purchased for $1.80.
Machine Learning, by Mitchell, Thomas, Sold for $50.99, purchased for $1.00.
Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker, by Lamb, Harold, Sold for $50.04, purchased for $1.00.
Instructor's Manual to Accompany Conceptual Physics, Sixth Edition, by Hewitt, Paul G., Sold for $50.04, purchased for $1.00.
Kate: The Kate Moss Book by Moss, Kate, Sold for $199.99, purchased for $0.90.
Field, Thermionic and Secondary Electronemission Spectroscopy, by Modinos, A., Sold for $150.00, purchased for $1.00.
Gouache for Illustration, Howard, Rob, Sold for 79.99, purchased for $1.80. (This one I probably let go of for about half of what I could have sold it for).
This is just a small sample of "gems" I have sold the past couple months. For the past three months I have been quite busy with my day job flight testing airplanes for that big commercial airplane company up here in the Pacific Northwest, and I have only been frequenting the clearance shelves of a local chain bookstore and my local Friends of the Library bookshelves. If I had more time to check out some of the other stores in the Seattle area I would have a lot more to post.
If you add all of this up, the cost for the books listed here was $21.42 and the profit was $1,977.23, or 9,231%, that is quite substantial for just 17 books. That will easily buy another 1,500+ books that will return $10 to $15 each in profit, and this is just a SMALL sample of the gems I have found, there were many more over the past several years!
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