So, how have the Amazon.sales been going with my old college books? To be honest, I’m finding myself uncharacteristically cheerful about walking to the post office on my lunch hour to net as little as 50 cents a sale.
Normally, I’m not one that counts my net worth in 50 cent increments, and yet I have found, to my surprise, that I am willing to go through the effort of selling a title if I can net at least 50 cents after shipping/packaging. I have yet to make more than two dollars on any single book.
I think it’s the “Cool” factor. I feel so positively hip selling my stuff on The Great Amazon.com, so positively groovy about being part of The Great Amazon, that I don’t mind the bother or the fact that I could take all of my books to Dawn Treader Bookstore in Ann Arbor and sell them at one shot for about the same amount of money per title.
The money I’ve made – $20 so far – has occupied a special place in my mind as well. It has seemed like true splurging money. What have I spent it on? Two used Star Trek movies – from Amazon. com of course. Did you know you can buy practically any book or movie second hand on Amazon? It’s a fact!
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