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Answer: First, I would say that trying to find good books for resale in a GoodwillSalvation Army type of store is going to be difficult for a couple of reasons:
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The other main reason it's so hard to find valuable books in a thrift shop is that lots of used booksellers regularly go there to find books for resale. So the stock gets picked over very quickly. If there is not much turnover at the shop, with new inventory coming in from people donating books, pretty soon all the books that were worth decent money will end up in the hands of booksellers, and most of the stuff left on the shelves is junk.
Also Cheap Lucas Hernandez Jersey , some of these types of thrift stores are beginning to sell some of the valuable donated books online themselves. They check the online price as soon as they get the books, and the valuable ones they sell themselves and keep all the proceeds, instead of allowing booksellers or collectors to snap them up at bargain prices. I guess there's nothing wrong with that, except that it makes it really hard for book buyers and collectors to find decent books in these types of stores.
Library sales are probably the best source of profitable books for online sellers. And that is precisely because the books available at a library sale haven't been picked over before you see them. So you have a much better chance of finding some valuable books at a bargain price at a library sale.
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