Last night I tookabout 30 minutes and loaded my car with eight (count them, 8!) boxes of books and headed down to Half-Price Books to sell them off.
15 minutes later I walked out of there with one dollar and fifty cents. Count it, $1.50.
I actually laughed when the guy told me their offer. But hey, I wasn’t about to haul 8 boxes of books back to my garage. And to be fair to HPB, they didn’t rip me off, these were really junky books. I’m sure they are going to recycle about 90% of them. These were leftover books from the book business I once was a part off. Books that we got off Craigslist either for free or from some other bookseller. Old books in poor condition and poorly written books that don’t deserve to be sold.
So I wasn’t really upset. I was actually kind of glad to get rid of 8 boxes out of my garage. The only thing is: I still have about 40 boxes full of books!
They’re not all bad books, but most of them are. It’s not going to be worth my time to load them all up and make multiple trips to Half-Price. I may end up hauling them all to Goodwill, though. But before that, I will do what the people before me did and put them on Craigslist and see what happens.
Oh, and that $1.50…I’m saving it for something special.
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