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Michael J. Jung is a professional freelance writer for hire. He loves learning about new side hustles and promoting nonprofit groups. When he's not writing or selling books, you can find him volunteering as Darth Vader or Spider-Man for children's events. Check out his Sell Books Fast eBook series on Amazon!

How to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome When Using Your Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Michael J. Jung

This is my third post offering strategies for finding books to sell online without straining your hands and contracting carpal tunnel syndrome. If you’d like to read previous posts in this series, you can find them at 3 Ways to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome When Selling Books Online and How to Make a Hands-Free Cell Phone or Tablet Platform.

Most book scouts who use Bookscouter to find books to sell online use a Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner that connects wirelessly to their cell phone or tablet and scans the barcodes on books. The scanner then sends this information to your cell or tablet, letting you see if the book can be resold for a profit or not.

This saves you a ton of time and also lets you look up more books than you could otherwise, increasing your overall profits.

However, while the Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner is a lightweight device, holding it in your hand constantly can lead to the wrist pain associated with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Therefore, it’s important that you adopt certain strategies to protect your hands by only holding the scanner when you need to.

Strategy #1: Wear the Scanner Around Your Neck

If you purchase a Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner, you’ll find it comes with a lanyard that you can wear around your neck, letting the scanner dangle across your chest until you need to use it.

While this is a good way to keep from holding the scanner all the time, I personally don’t like it. The scanner constantly bangs against my chest, which can be distracting when I’m looking for profitable books on the shelves.

Strategy #2: Pin the Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner to Your Shirt or Vest

This is the strategy that works best for me. By attaching the scanner’s lanyard to the top of my shirt or vest with a safety pin (as shown in the photo) the scanner will just hang down my side, and won’t get in my way. When I need it, I can grab it and scan a book – and if I want to give my hands a rest, I can just let it go until I need it again.

If you’re wearing a vest, like the one shown in the picture, you can also keep the scanner in your pocket when it’s not in use, protecting it from accidentally slamming against something and getting damaged.

As you can probably guess, I recommend wearing a vest when bookscouting. Not only is it easier to pin your scanner to a vest, but if you buy a vest with lots of pockets, you can easily store your other gear (PDA, store coupons, battery charger etc.) without worrying about it getting in your way.

(Friendly heads up – wearing a vest at most stores will make other customers mistake you for a store employee, especially if they see you scanning books. It’s actually pretty funny, although by the time the fifth customer asks me for the key to the changing room, it can get annoying :))

Bonus Tip: How to Scan Books

A lot of book scouts I see constantly hold their scanners as they pull books out of the shelves one by one to scan their barcodes.

Unfortunately, this is a waste of energy and creates the repetitive hand movements that can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome.

Instead of scanning books this way, I advise you to keep your scanner in your pocket while you examine the bookshelves. When you see a book you’d like to check out, pull it halfway out of the shelf so the barcode is exposed, but don’t take it out completely.

Repeat this process until all the books you want to examine are sticking out of the shelf.

Now it’s a simple matter for you to take out your scanner, scan each exposed book barcode, and look them up on Bookscouter using your hands-free phone or tablet. Place the books you want in your cart and slide the ones you don’t back into the shelf.

After you’re done, put your scanner back in your pocket and repeat the process on any other shelves that interest you.

Granted there will be some books that are harder to scan (since their barcodes might be on the inside covers or you might have to enter the barcode’s ISBN number into your tablet or cell phone manually) but this economy of movement will greatly reduce the strain on your hands and wrists and keep you from suffering any pain down the line.

I hope this helps you in your bookscouting! By the way, if you’re wondering what books are the best ones to sell online, please subscribe to my blog to receive updates, as I will be covering such topics in future posts.

Want to learn how the scanner can earn you more money? Read How to Make More Money Selling Books Online with the Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner.

How to Make a Hands-Free Cell Phone or Tablet Platform to Sell Books Online and Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Michael J. Jung

In my previous post 3 Ways to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome When Selling Books Online, I outlined some strategies to manage and prevent the chronic hand pain that you can get from holding a cell phone and/or scanner too long while you’re looking for books to sell online.

While these strategies will provide relief from carpal tunnel syndrome, if you keep going back to thrift stores and spending hours holding your scanner and/or cell phone while scanning books, your hand pain will return, especially if you overexert yourself.

Thus, if you want to find more books to sell online and minimize the pressure you put on your hands and wrists, you need to create a hands-free cell phone and/or tablet that you can use when you go out bookscouting.

The good news is that a hands-free cell phone or tablet is something that works better for people who sell gold dust books than book scouts who sell books the traditional way.

Why? Well if you’ve seen most book scouts, you’ll see they scan books using a PDA and Scan Card. They download the Amazon database into a Compact Flash (CF) Card, insert the CF Card into their PDA, and use that device to search for books to sell online.

Now this method has its advantages (which I’ll discuss in a future blog post), but it doesn’t change the fact that these book scouts constantly hold their PDAs, which can put a lot of strain on their hands and wrists.

People who sell gold dust books, on the other hand, use a cell phone (or tablet) and a Bluetooth Barcode Scanner that links wirelessly to their cell or tablet. This lets them scan barcodes with the scanner and look up prices on the Bookscouter website.

Since you only need to carry the scanner to read barcodes, it’s very simple to create an inexpensive platform that holds your cell phone or tablet while you scan barcodes, taking a lot of pressure off of your hands and wrists.

Here’s how I made mine:

What You Need

A Wooden Clipboard with a Strong Metal Clamp: (these are inexpensive items you can buy online or at an office supply store. I recommend you get a wooden one – like the one in the link – because Velcro patches stick better to wood than something with a slicker surface)

Velcro Patches: (Again, relatively inexpensive items you can buy online or at a hardware store. You need strong Velcro patches that won’t come apart easily with some tough adhesive on the back to stick to the back of your clipboard, phone and/or tablet)

Lanyard: (Optional, but I do recommend getting a tough, long lanyard that can provide extra support and security for your tablet and/or phone if you accidentally drop it)

Your Cell Phone and/or Tablet: (I actually made multiple platforms for both my cell phone and tablet so I always have a few spares if I need them)

Instructions

1. Measure three strips of Velcro (use the “rough” side) and stick them onto the middle of the clipboard as shown in the photo below. Be sure to make this Velcro patch slightly bigger than the width of your cell phone or tablet to ensure it has plenty of room. (Note: in the photo below, I created an additional Velcro patch below the central one for my hotspot. You may not need to do this if your tablet can get WiFi without a hotspot.)

2. Now stick three strips of Velcro (use the “soft” side) onto the back of your cell phone or tablet (be sure not to cover your camera!) as shown in the photo below.

3. Stick your tablet or cell phone onto the clipboard and test the strength of the Velcro. It should take a very strong pull from you to separate the two, and the clipboard should be able to support the entire weight of the tablet or cell phone at a vertical angle (see photo).

4. Optional: Remove the cell phone or tablet and attach a lanyard to one of the corners. You can wear the lanyard around your neck or attach it to your shirt or vest, ensuring that you’re always connected to your cell or tablet – which can help save your device if the clipboard accidentally drops.

Using the Platform

Now you have a platform to hold your cell phone or tablet that you can easily clamp onto the front handlebar of your shopping cart when you scan barcodes using your Bluetooth Barcode Scanner and check up prices on Bookscouter.

You can even adjust the platform on your cart so that it’s vertical when you’re checking books on lower shelves, making it easier for you to see the screen on your tablet or cell.

Some thrift stores also have bookshelves that you can attach your clipboard’s clamp to (just make sure the platform is secure before you start scanning!). This will make it easier for you to scan book barcodes while taking pressure off your hands.

Final Thoughts

When I started selling gold dust books online, I used my cell phone, since it was easier to hold in my hand than a tablet.

Once I created my platform, however, I found it was more convenient to use my tablet since the screen is easier to see and I don’t have to scroll around as much to search for buyback company prices. (Granted you’ll probably want to attach a lanyard to your tablet, especially if it’s an expensive one!)

Finally, you may have noticed that while the platform can hold your cell or tablet, you still need to hold your Bluetooth Barcode Scanner when scanning books. In my next blog entry, I’ll cover some easy ways you can keep yourself from holding that scanner all the time. Please subscribe and comment if you have any questions or anything to say!

3 Ways to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome When Selling Books Online

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – selling books online using Bookscouter is one of the most fun ways I’ve found to make extra money.

Unfortunately, like many people who use computers and cell phones on a regular basis, online booksellers can also develop carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition where repetitive movements of your arms, wrists, and hands can inflame the tissues in your wrists, leading to chronic pain.

Think about it – when you’re shopping at thrift stores and garage sales looking for books to sell online, you’re constantly holding your phone and/or scanner in your hands and pressing the same buttons over and over again, which can put a lot of strain on your wrists.

Then when you’re back home looking up book prices to sell your books on Amazon or to buyback companies, you use your hands again to type, move your mouse, or print documents – all movements that can aggravate your fingers and wrists over time.

As someone who’s experienced carpal tunnel syndrome pain, I’d like to share three strategies I’ve adopted to manage and even stop carpal tunnel syndrome pain from happening so I can keep scouting for books and selling them online for extra money.

Full disclosure — I’m not a medical doctor and this blog entry should not be taken as professional medical advice. That said, I’ve gotten a lot of relief by following these strategies, and I hope they help you.

Limit Your Book Scouting Time

Take it from someone who’s been selling books online for over six years – hunting for used books to sell online (or “book scouting”) can be addictive!

Let’s face it – it’s fun to buy books for a few dollars and then sell them online for $5, $10, or even $100. And when you consider all the places where you can hunt for books – thrift shops, garage sales, library bookstores and more – the temptation to spend several hours every week book scouting can be strong.

But be careful! Spending too much time perusing book shelves and scanning barcodes can and will put a lot of pressure on your wrists – which can cause you a lot of pain.

So how much time should you spend book scouting? That’s up to you – but I would suggest limiting your book scouting time to maybe a couple hours a day at first, and take a few days off in between book scouting trips to let your wrists recuperate.

If you do start book scouting on a more regular basis, be sure to listen to the aches and pains of your body and take some time off whenever you need to – remember if you work at an office or spend a lot of time on the computer already, you’re wrists are probably being exposed to a lot of repetitive motions already.

Practice Self Massage Daily

One of the best methods I’ve found to relieve my carpal tunnel syndrome (and to prevent future cases from happening) is to practice some deep tissue massages on my arms and wrists every day to help keep my muscles loose.

This is a cheap and very easy way of making sure you don’t develop any major muscle problems down the line – and it’ll help you start and end your days feeling much better if you practice self massage daily.

I’ve personally gotten a lot of relief following the simple instructions from the two YouTube videos below:

All you really need for relief is a little unrefined oil (I’ve personally gotten great results with extra virgin natural coconut oil, but any unrefined oil will work well) and a little time every day to take care of your arm muscles.

I recommend you spend at least 20-30 minutes every morning using these massage techniques (especially on days you go out book scouting) and another 20-30 minutes every night massaging your arms, wrists, and hands to help relieve any muscle pain you might have picked up during the day.

And don’t just stop at arm and hand massage! Remember, your legs and back are also under a lot of strain if you keep bending and crouching at thrift stores to find books to sell online, so be sure to study leg, knee, and back massage as well (you can find several videos about this massage on YouTube).

(Please feel free to comment below if you’d like to see a future blog post focusing on these other types of massage).

Wear Compression Gloves

Some people have differing feelings about this, but I’ve found wearing compression gloves (the flexible nylon gloves with a strap that wraps around your wrist giving it extra support) can help relieve your hands of a lot of pain that they might experience if you didn’t wear them.

You can find these gloves at most drug stores in the same section where they sell hand splints. They’re fairly inexpensive and last a long time. (Just make sure you pick out a pair of gloves that fit you well and are comfortable).

And remember – even the best compression gloves can’t prevent carpal tunnel syndrome if you go book scouting every day. Listen to your body, take some time off if you need it, and practice self massage on a constant basis. Trust me – you’ll be glad you did!

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4 Reasons Why Selling Gold Dust Books Is a Great Way to Make Extra Money

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Michael J. Jung

As someone who likes to sell books online through both Amazon.com and textbook buyback companies, I know there are advantages and disadvantages to selling through both of these venues.

In this post, I’d like to share what I think are the top reasons for selling gold dust books to book buyback companies to make extra money.

1. Gold Dust Books Don’t Create Clutter!

It’s a common hazard for any online book dealer; to sell books online successfully you have to build up a large inventory of books – which usually means sacrificing a spare bedroom or garage to store all of those books. For someone trying to sell books out of a dorm room or whose wife despises clutter, this can be a huge problem.

But not with gold dust books! Because you can immediately sell gold dust books, you can buy a hundred books; sell them online that night; and then pack and ship them out the next day. With this kind of rapid turnaround, your books won’t stay in your house long enough to create any clutter!

Additionally, you can declutter your house of any books you already have by visiting Bookscouter.com, entering the ISBNs of any books you want to get rid of, and checking if any book buyback company will offer you a good price quote for them.

Bear in mind that once you sell your books, you’ll want to pack them up and ship them out fast (the next day if possible!). You don’t want boxes of books cluttering up your house when they could be out making you extra money!

2. Gold Dust Books Are Easier to Find!

For the book scout who limits his or her search to books that sell online for $20 or more, book scouting can be frustrating. Other book scouts may have already picked over all the books and if your favorite thrift store hasn’t put out any new merchandise, you can leave the store empty-handed.

Not so with gold dust books! Where high profit books are often in short supply (why do you think they’re worth so much in the first place?) gold dust books are usually much easier to find.

This is because gold dust books are not only in great demand but are also produced in mass quantities. The downside to this is that each book may only sell for $2 or $3 to a book buyback company. The upside is that, since they’re more plentiful, you’ll have a much easier time of finding them.

Personally, I’ve never walked out of a thrift store empty-handed. Like all book scouts, I have good days (where I load up my car with close to two hundred books) and bad days (where I walk out of a thrift store with only five or six gold dust books), but on average all of my book scouting trips are profitable.

Better yet, once you start selling gold dust books, you’ll find you sell the same titles again and again – meaning you can spot these gold dust book titles easily on a book shelf.

A word of caution – sometimes even a book title you’ve sold dozens of times to book buyback companies can stop receiving price quotes for a few weeks or months. This might happen when the book buyback companies get overstocked with the title and need to sell their inventory before buying any new copies.

So make sure to scan your books and check all the price quotes through Bookscouter before you buy them! The last thing you want is to get stuck with a bunch of books you can’t sell!

3. Gold Dust Books Help Build Up an Inventory of High Profit Books!

This reason might sound strange at first. After all, most of the gold dust books you’ll find will only sell for $2 or $3 to a book buyback company.

But not all of them. Often, you’ll find a gold dust book that might only sell for $10 to a book buyback company, but can be listed for as much as $50 or $80 on Amazon or eBay.

This can happen for one of two reasons. Sometimes a book is in high demand and a book buyback company wants to snatch it up for a bargain price so it can re-sell it for a higher profit. New editions of textbooks often fall into this category.

In other cases, the book might not be in high demand, but is in short supply. These books might be considered collector’s items and/or may have a niche following. Such books take time to sell, but can sell for high prices if they find the right buyer.

Either way, it’s to your advantage to check and see if your gold dust book might also be a high profit book you can sell on Amazon. Be sure to read my post, How to Sell Your Gold Dust Books Online for the Best Prices and learn how you can sign up for a free Bookscouter account that will inform you of all your options.

Update: I’ve recently published a very popular eBook, Pricing Used Books for Profit on Amazon, which gives you an effective step-by-step strategy for pricing your high-end books competitively on Amazon — and how to keep them competitively priced (often by raising your prices). If you’d like to learn more, feel free to check it out!

4. Gold Dust Books Provide a Regular Supplemental Stream of Income

This is, in my opinion, the best reason to sell gold dust books online.

Most people want to sell books online to generate a regular stream of income. For a rookie book scout, however selling books though only Amazon or eBay can be difficult. You need to build up a large inventory and even then, you can experience dry spells where you won’t sell a lot of books.

This is why it’s important to have an alternate stream of income that can help you pay the bills as you build up your online bookselling business. If you sell gold dust books on a constant basis, you’ll soon receive regular Pay Pal payments that will not only cover your book buying expenses but also provide revenue for personal expenses.

Keep in mind that, as in any business, you’ll experience highs and lows with selling gold dust books as well. On certain months, you’ll find it’s very easy to find hundreds of gold dust books and sell them for high prices. On other months, you’ll find gold dust books are in shorter supply and don’t receive the same high price quotes they used to.

To make sure you keep making money, you need to diversify where and how you buy your gold dust books – something I’ll cover in future posts.

The other thing to realize is that if you not only sell books online through Amazon and eBay but to book buyback companies as well, you’ll soon have multiple streams of income coming in – which will earn you a lot more extra money in the long run.

Final Thoughts

If someone asked me whether they should sell their books on either Amazon or to book buyback companies, my answer would be simple.

Sell them on both!

Selling books online doesn’t have to be an either/or business. Amazon and book buyback companies are both valid places to sell books – and as you learned in this post, you can regularly find gold dust books that sell better on Amazon than to a book buyback company.

And while it’s true that you can usually sell books faster by sending them to a book buyback company, there are strategies you can use to sell books fast on Amazon as well.

If you’d like to learn more about how to sell your books faster and earn more money on Amazon, please check out my Sell Books Fast Online eBook series.

And if you’d like to learn how gold dust books can earn you thousands of dollars a year, check out my post How to Make Extra Money Every Day By “Flipping” Books Online

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A Review of the Bookscouter Android App

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Michael J. Jung

Those of you who read my post How to Sell Your Gold Dust Books Online for the Best Prices know that the free website Bookscouter.com allows you to compare price quotes from over fifty different book buyback companies, letting you make an informed choice about which buyback companies to sell your books to.

I highly recommend that you open a free online account on Bookscouter.com and then sign into it on your cell phone or tablet whenever you’re out looking for books to sell online. By doing this, you’ll be able to see more buyback price quotes for the books you’re checking, sell books to more online companies, and earn more extra money.

That being said, it’s always a good idea to have some back up online resources available in the event that the Bookscouter.com website goes temporarily down and you still want to find books at thrift stores and garage sales to sell online.

One nice resource you can use as a backup is the free Bookscouter app that you can download onto your Android phone. This app functions like the Bookscouter.com website and is a definite must-have for your bookscouting equipment.

(Bookscouter.com also offers a Bookscouter App for iPhones. Since I’ve only used the Bookscouter Android App so far, however, I’m limiting this review to the Android app).

How to Install and Use the Bookscouter Android App

To download the Bookscouter Android App, go to the Android Market, search for “Bookscouter” and download the app onto your Android phone for free.

The first time you open the app, it will ask you for a Barcode Scanner. This is a device that scans book barcodes and enters their ISBNs into the Bookscouter App, letting it look up prices faster. It’s a great time saver that will help you find a lot more gold dust books.

You have two options here – you can either download a free Barcode Scanner App from the Android Market which will let you use your cell phone camera to scan barcodes, or you can buy a separate Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner which connects wirelessly to your cell.

I highly recommend you buy a Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner. Most cell phone cameras don’t make good barcode scanners and you’ll waste a lot of time waiting for your camera to scan ISBNs. A Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner, on the other hand, uses a laser scanner to read barcodes and can scan dozens of books in seconds.

(To read more about my thoughts on this scanner, check out my post, How to Make More Money Selling Books Online with the Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner.)

To use a Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner with your Android cell phone, you’ll first need to install the Serial Magic Gears App, which you can find and download for free at the Android Market.

You may also need to download some additional scanning software depending on your phone. Be sure to consult your instruction manual for this.

Now you can start looking for gold dust books. Open the Bookscouter App, connect it to your Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner, and scan the ISBN number of the book you want to check. Tap, “Get Prices” and the app will search for and display any price quotes it finds for the book from Bookscouter’s Preferred Vendors.

If you don’t have a scanner (or if you find a book with an ISBN but no barcode) you can still look up prices manually. Just type the ISBN into the Bookscouter App search bar and tap “Get Prices.”

After you decide to buy the book or not, just press the back button on your phone and the screen will revert back to the original Bookscouter App screen, allowing you to enter in an ISBN from a new book and look up more price quotes.

Advantages of Using the Bookscouter App

I enjoy using the Bookscouter App as a backup to the Bookscouter.com website for two reasons.

For one thing, it shows price quotes from many buyback companies (as opposed to only one book buyback company if you use an app provided by a buyback company), allowing you to find more gold dust books and sell them for the highest price to the best book buyback company.

For another, the Bookscouter App is very easy to view on a cell phone. The buttons are simple to manipulate and once you get comfortable using this app, it’s very easy to fall into a rhythm and search through dozens of books.

Drawbacks of the Bookscouter App

Along with these advantages, I’ve also experienced a few drawbacks from using the Bookscouter App.

First, you’re limited to only seeing price quotes from Bookscouter’s eighteen “Preferred Vendors” and not the fifty-plus book buyback companies on the Bookscouter website. That’s still a lot better than other buyback company comparison sites, but it can’t match checking up books on the actual Bookscouter website.

Since the Bookscouter App looks up prices in real time via the Internet, it can sometimes take several seconds to show all the price quotes for a book. To not waste time when this happens, I look through bookshelves and select other potential gold dust books to scan later.

Finally – and most annoying – the Bookscouter App can sometimes temporarily stop working if you use it too long. When this happens, the app brings up a blank screen instead of showing price quotes.

For these reasons, I rarely use the Bookscouter App these days except as a backup to the actual Bookscouter.com website.

If you find the Bookscouter App isn’t working for you, however, you can also try the free option I list below:

M.Bookscouter

In addition to the Bookscouter App, Bookscouter.com offers a mobile version of its website called m.bookscouter.

Basically, m.bookscouter looks and functions like the Bookscouter App, but I’ve found its buttons handle less smoothly than the app.

Nevertheless, if Bookscouter.com goes down, I simply enter my web browser, access m.bookscouter, and continue searching for books.

Final Thoughts

One of the key things to remember when looking for books to sell online is to always have backup plans available in the event that something goes wrong with your equipment.

To that end, I’ve made a point of finding as many online resources like Bookscouter.com so I’ll never have to cut my bookscouting trips short because of an unexpected malfunction.

If you’d like to learn more about other resources like Bookscouter.com, please check out my article Websites Like Bookscouter.

That said, these are still just tools – and only as good as the person using them. To really find and sell gold dust books successfully, you’ll need to be familiar with the buying policies of buyback companies and learn what type of books these companies want the most.

In future posts, we’ll learn more about both of these topics – so be sure to subscribe and make sure you get the latest updates!

How to Make Extra Money Every Day “Flipping” Books Online

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Michael J. Jung

Want to make extra money every day selling books online?

Many people earn extra money this way – in fact you’ve probably seen several people shopping at thrift stores for books they can re-sell for a profit online.

Unfortunately, newcomers to this business get discouraged when they find it can take weeks or even months for their books to sell on Amazon.com or eBay. For someone starting out, this can lead to some serious cash flow problems.

Fortunately, I’m about to show you how you can make extra money selling books online by buying dozens of books every day and selling them all in less than 24 hours. And all this by using a single free online resource called Bookscouter.

Sound impossible? Here’s how it works.

Selling Gold Dust Books Online

Every day, there are dozens of profitable books that go overlooked by experienced booksellers (or “book scouts” as we call them in the business). These books (which I call gold dust books) sell online for relatively low prices (usually $2 to $10).

Gold dust books can be anything — recent bestsellers, young adult novels, histories, science books, and even self-help books.

Because these books don’t sell for much on Amazon.com or eBay, most book scouts turn them down.

What many of these book scouts don’t realize is these gold dust books can be sold immediately to book buyback companies (also called textbook buyback companies) for $2 to $10 (or more!) a book. You can pack a few dozen of these books in a box, ship them out the next day, and double or triple your money when your payment comes in two weeks later.

Most book buyback companies also offer free shipping labels (which you can print directly from their websites), saving you expensive mailing fees and allowing you to pocket more of the profits.

And best of all, you can find online bids for multiple book buyback companies by visiting a single free online website called Bookscouter.com, which connects you with dozens of book buyback companies and shows you how much they will pay for your books.

Earn More Extra Money by “Flipping” Gold Dust Books

Okay (I hear you saying), so I can earn a quick $2 or $5 per book if I sell gold dust books to book buyback companies. But can these books really earn me thousands of dollars?

To answer that question, I’d like to demonstrate the concept of the “flip.”

Basically, “flipping” books involves buying and selling books so fast that even books with small profits generate substantial income over time.

Sound confusing? Check out this real-life example.

Say you give yourself a budget of $200 a week to buy gold dust books. On an average week, you find you can buy 200 books (for about $1 a book) and sell or “flip” them for an average price of $2.25 each to buyback companies.

In other words, you make a net profit of $1.25 per book ($2.25 – $1 = $1.25).

In an average week, you’ll make a net profit of $250 ($1.25 x 200 books).

Within an average month you’ll have earned a net profit of over $1000 – or roughly $1083.00 ($250 x 4.33 weeks)

And in a year (52 weeks) you’ll have earned a net profit of $13,000! ($250 x 52 weeks)!

Also keep in mind that since you keep earning back your initial $200 week after week, you don’t need to invest any new money to buy books! Basically, you’re spending and re-spending the same $200 every week – and making $250 off of it every week.

To put it in different terms, you’re earning a 125% profit from your initial $200 investment each week… or a 6500% profit every year! (125% x 52 weeks)

By the way, as you get better at finding and flipping gold dust books, you’ll discover you can buy them for less than $1 a book – and sell them for much more than $2.25. Both of these factors will raise your profit margin substantially.

Learning How to Make Extra Money by Selling Gold Dust Books

When I started selling gold dust books years ago, I found making extra money this way was fun and a great starting point for anyone with a limited budget who wanted to sell books online.

I also learned selling gold dust books was different from selling books on Amazon or eBay. I needed to use different equipment, adopt new book hunting strategies, and discover which book buyback companies were the most reliable (and paid the best).

Fortunately for you, in future posts, I’ll be sharing multiple tips and strategies on selling gold dust books so you’ll be able to profit faster than I did when I started out.

I’ll also be sharing tips on how to sell books more effectively on Amazon when you do start selling high-profit books.

To make sure to take full advantage of these strategies, I urge you to poke around my blog and find more articles on selling books fast.

Looking for a place to start? I recommend reading How to Sell Your Gold Dust Books Online for the Best Prices.

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