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Price for Paperback Books at a Garage Sale?


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I am getting ready to have a yard sale, and it has been a while. What is a good price to sell books for? I have mostly paperback and kids books.

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July 5, 20220 found this helpful
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Kid's books will sometimes sell for a little more than 'regular' books.
In my area, most paperbacks go for 25 cents and hardcovers go for $.50-$1.50 according to the neighborhood and type of book. These are the same prices in most thrift stores so if your books are not selling you may have to lower the price.
Sometimes making your price for a group - like 3 for $1 works also.

 

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For the adult paperbacks, I would charge 25 or 50 cents a book, maybe do something like 5 for $1, depending on how many you have to get rid of. You could do something like that for the kid ones too but a better idea might be to give each child a free book. That will encourage their parents to perhaps buy something else and will make the kids very happy.

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At the end of your sale, be sure to take your books to be donated. The library is probably a better option than a thrift store. Very new books in good condition could be taken to a used book store or even sold online but values are pretty low, especially for paperbacks.

 

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Paperbacks are usually marked $0.25 to $0.50 each @ yard sales.

 

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July 5, 20220 found this helpful

Usually 10-20% of the original price.

 
July 10, 20220 found this helpful

Paperbacks books: two for $1.

Kids books: 50 cents a book, maybe $1 for a book with a nice hard cover.

 
July 11, 20220 found this helpful

Price your books all at $0.50 to $1 and people will pick up 10 of them at a time.

You need to do competitor research such as window shopping at some other garage/yard sale in town and checking out their stock and prices. You can experiment with raising the prices, but then you run the risk of losing money when people only buy two things instead of 10.

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Be sure to have some bills and coins ready at the start to have change at the ready.
www.angi.com/.../ultimate-garage-sale-pricing-guide...

Price other things:
near-to-new items should be sold for 50 percent of their retail price,
slightly used items at 25-30 percent of retail,
well-worn items at 10 percent of retail.

 
July 11, 20220 found this helpful

25-50 cents for paper back, $0.50-1.00 for hard cover.
But kids books can vary widely, anything special can be marked $1 (each).

 

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