Here's a fun idea for all the newbies. Buy from Amazon Marketplace and sell on eBay. You can always find cheap, used textbooks on Amazon Marketplace. For some reason, people are willing to pay more for textbooks on eBay. Try this experiment. Cut and paste "0121822028" in the Amazon search box on the Amazon website. This is the product number for a popular college biology book. You'll see that the retail price for the book is $150-$200, but take a close look at the Amazon Marketplace prices. $20 to $30. Next, run an eBay search with the same product number. You'll see that this book(used) is going for $50 to $60. This is just an example. You'll obviously need to do some research to decide whether or not a particular book will make you money. Also, the prices I just listed are good as of today, June 24th, 2010. These prices will fluctuate, so you may find that the prices have changed for this particular book depending on when you read this post. But the principal remains the same. This strategy requires some research, but it has the potential to pay off!
-Valentina
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