Sell Your Books to Hastings
Posted in Frugal Friday and tagged with Books, Family, Money, Movie, Sell on 06/26/2009 12:27 pm by lori
Jonathan and I are gearing up for a Garage Sale. We started thinking of how we could get more money than we would at a Garage Sale for selling certain items.
I’m not sure if this got me more money than it would’ve from a Garage Sale, but I took some of Abigail’s clothes to Once Upon a Child. I do this every few months. The last time, I got $16+ dollars.
Then, I thought about books. So, I started calling used book stores to see if they would buy the books. A lot of them would only take them for store credit (trade) in return. So, I thought about selling books on Amazon or something like that, but decided it’d be too much work for not a lot of money. Then, I thought of Hastings.
So, we took a bunch of books and DVDs to Hastings in a big tub. They bought 32 books and offered us $110 in store credit OR $75 in cash. We took the cash! Just one trip, no shipping costs, no conditions, just cash back!
I took some brand new DVDs in shrink wrap, and they only offered $2 for them. So, I didn’t sell them to Hastings because I hope I can get more at the Garage Sale.
The next day, as we were sorting through other boxes for the garage sale, we found more books. So, we took them to Hastings. Not sure how many they took this time, but they gave us $47.
So, if you wanna sell to Hastings, call before you go, to make sure someone is there to look through and price your books. Also, take your Drivers License, and be prepared to get your thumb printed (they said Police come by each week and check the records to make sure you didn’t steal the dvds/books/cds).
Our Hastings would not take the small sized paper back novels. But other than that, they took back most everything. I think the most I got for a book was $6 (Hardback Twilight books). I think the least was $1. So, it’s more than you would get from a Garage Sale; we’re happy with the $120 cash.
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June 26th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
That sounds like more than we get from Half Price Books. Great job!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
good to know. thank you.
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June 27th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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June 29th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
We have a huge book store here in Portland called Powell’s city of books (it’s the a whole city block and has several stories). Sometimes when we want to go on a date but don’t have much money, Ry and I go through our books and take what we want to get rid of there. They usually give us between $20-$50 for our pile. However much we get determines our date!
I don’t think I know Hastings. Is that a chain type store like boarders or is it a local place?
June 29th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
For some reason, their website’s locations page isn’t working. But they are a chain book store– it’s like a combination b/t Barnes & Noble (you can buy books), Blockbuster (you can rent/buy movies and games), and Virgins (you can buy music). Ryan knows about it; that’s where he saw two midgets making out.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Okay, I was AMAZED at how much we got from Hastings for our books. I am a librarian for a rural library and we are always getting donations of good books that we already have copies of. We usually sell them for about a dollar, never more than $3. Anyway, I saw your blog by accident and couldn’t believe my eyes! There is a Hastings just 38 miles from us so I bagged up some books we have had for ages trying to sell for $1 and headed to Hastings. They bought most of them, I came back with half a bag and I took two large ones. Of course I got the store credit and it was $79.06!!!! We felt like we hit the gold mine! Our library is in a small rural community and county and we while we receive funding to buy books throughout the year, it isn’t much. This will allow us to buy more books, dvds, and books on CD for pretty much free! Thanks for your great blog.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@ Aimee- Yea! I’m glad you took advantage of it.