Flynrider
Phoenix,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, December 21, 2011
You are not being ripped off. They make an offer to buy your books and you're agreeing to sell them. If you don't agree with the price, you don't sell. That's how free enterprise works. If everyone else thinks that the store's buy prices for books are too low, they eventually won't have any books to sell. See how that works?
" They don't give you the option to take the books else where to sell them. "
How does that happen? Are they holding you at gunpoint until you handover the books? If that's the case, I agree that it's a ripoff, but you should be calling the police instead of posting here.
" You just have to take their price and live with it. "
Actually, you don't.
" Something needs to be done. "
You're right, and it's you that needs to do it. They only buy books for pennies because you are willing to sell them for pennies. Any product or commodity is worth what someone is willng to pay for it. If you think your books are worth more, don't sell them for a few pennies. As long as you do, that's what your books will be worth. It's a self adjusting system.
Good luck.
Robert
Irvine,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, December 21, 2011
Something needs to be done.
- If you don't like the price they are offering you then move on. Seriously what law says a company must give you a certain amount for your books?
Better yet since you obviously have a degree in economics if they are getting 10 times what they were willing to pay you, then give them some competition. Go out and sell the copies you have. If they are selling books for 10 times what they wanted to pay you, then you sell yours for 8 times.
Oh, you don't have a way to sell them..well why not open up a store. When you do it won't cost much to run and I am sure you can still make a profit. After all you only have to worry about the rent for the store, the utilities, the insurance, labor costs, advertising, and of course the cost off the books you are selling..that is of course if they sell.
Good Luck to you.