DUmmy Selling Old Textbooks To Pay Bills

[Dori]

Gosh...does Skinner allow yard sales on DU?

ashling (21,426 posts)

Textbooks - new & used: American & World History, U.S. Government

I asked for a ruling from the administrators, but they haven't gotten back to me yet - I know they are busy too, so I'm not complaining, just trying to respectfully move ahead with my concerns/issues.

Family has been going through some rough time lately (who hasn't) financially and otherwise. Emotional issue, visa issues, electric cutoff ,etc.

We are going through our books and trying to sell what we can however we can to try to work through some of our financial problems. This is not something that we want to do, but ....

We have books that we have collected through graduate school and before - an some other items. Many sre textbooks or others that we use as sources for stuff we use in our Government classes didn't know if anybody might be interested in some of them.

If so, you could IM me.

If you feel this is inappropriate for this forum, please let me know and I will remove this post. DU has been very beneficial to me both in getting material to use in my classes and for emotional support. I do not want to do anything to disrespect or cause issues here.

Thanks . . . if nothing else, I could use your thoughts.

Peace

Tobin S. (6,419 posts)

4. Do you have any rare or collectible coins you'd like to sell?
 
If so, send me a PM. Otherwise, I'm at least good for a kick.

 

ashling (21,426 posts)

6. Interested in a 140+ year old handmade quilt
sorry, no coins

Thanks, though

onestepforward (3,627 posts)

11. I understand about having to sell stuff that you really don't want to.
 
I've been having to do that.

I can send you and your family well wishes, hope for some sales and big hugs. A lot of us are in this boat, so we're not alone.

Wounded Bear (4,716 posts)

14. I always find thread titles like that amusing...
 
Note to OP: If the mods find your post 'inappropriate,' they will remove it for you. No need to volunteer.

ashling (21,426 posts)



15. I'm glad you are anused

[BannedFromDU]

     How many copies of Howard Zinn does a DUmmy need?

     I don't get how a DUmmy could need to sell anything in this 0bamaconomy. Hm. Might have to do some research on this moron.

     And as far as the value of textbooks goes: you might as well burn them for a heat source.

     Should have been hoarding dollar bills instead of books, dipshit.

[BannedFromDU]

     All kidding aside, here's some healing white light for you, ashling. 

[JohnnyReb]

I once had to sell(more like almost gave it away) a twin engine scraper I didn't want to sell back in.....hmmmm.....there was a damn democrat president then too that should have stuck to peanut farming.

[BannedFromDU]

Yup, just like I thought. From a month ago:

ashling (21,426 posts)

Well, there is some good news in this otherwise crappy week . . .
At least Patches is not in pain anymore.

Thanks to everyone who wished her well. We all really appreciate it.

We had been doing subcutaneous drips for at least the last 7 months. The Vet said that one of her kidneys was about the size of my thumbnail and the other had a tumor. She was in a lot of pain and could hardly move. The doc said that for another drip to help it would have to be intravenous and her blood pressure was so high and it might buy her a few more days. Abby decided that it would be selfish and so gave her ok to have her put down.

We rescued her from the shelter in Fredericksburg Tx in February 1999. At the time we had just moved out to the country. Se had the run of the place except at night when we kept her in because of the Owls and Coyotes. She used to get in the attic and play the damsel in distress - but she could get in and out of anyplace.

At one point we had put a scarf around her neck which was to help keep off fleas. After a few days it went missing. Several months later I was working on the roof and found the scarf stuck on a loose nail on the ridge of the house. LOL

I'm sure I'll be posting more stuff and pictures . . . later - can't right now.

Thanks for your wishes.

Ya'll are great!

Notice how they always have dough for internet and their sick cats?

DUmmies: do you ALL have sick cats, or just you poor ones?

[HawkHogan]

This thread is a lie.  No way they have any books on US history or the government.   

[BannedFromDU]

This thread is a lie.  No way they have any books on US history or the government.   

     Of course they do. They're just from 1971 and every second paragraph has LIES LIES LIES written over it with yellow highlighter. The pages covering the FDR years are generally stuck together and I don't recommend touching them.

[jukin]

It's not just DUchebags that are hurting economically. Under the genius of Obamanomics during the recovery the mean yearly salary is down $2600/yr. Food prices are up 50% and energy is even more. The middle class is shrinking, food stamp roles are up 60%, and we have a record number of children in poverty. Almost forgot Obama did all this while government spending a record percentage of GDP and doubling the debt of all previous presidents combined. One other great thing record student debt and record low labor participation rate.

Other than the above, Obama and his progressive policies are not only destroying our economy, he is setting the world on fire.

[BannedFromDU]

It's not just DUchebags that are hurting economically. Under the genius of Obamanomics during the recovery the mean yearly salary is down $2600/yr. Food prices are up 50% and energy is even more. The middle class is shrinking, food stamp roles are up 60%, and we have a record number of children in poverty. Almost forgot Obama did all this while government spending a record percentage of GDP and doubling the debt of all previous presidents combined. One other great thing record student debt and record low labor participation rate.

Other than the above, Obama and his progressive policies are not only destroying our economy, he is setting the world on fire.

     But 0bama's unemployment rate is 0%, ie, he is employed, and that is worth more to a DUmmy than their actual wellbeing.

     Imagine being the child of a DUmmy. Shudder.

[jukin]

     But 0bama's unemployment rate is 0%, ie, he is employed, and that is worth more to a DUmmy than their actual wellbeing.

     Imagine being the child of a DUmmy. Shudder.

He's black or half black and a hardcore progressive fascist. That is all they truly care about. It is funny how human history repeats itself. When I hear these tales of woe all I can think of is Stalin sending people to the gulags and the Stalinistas would ask "Does Stalin know of this?"

[BattleHymn]

ashling (21,426 posts)



15. I'm glad you are anused

Primitives typically come equipped with two anuses: one on their ass and one on their face, in lieu of a mouth.

[BattleHymn]

OP link:  http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018585803

This thread is all the more hilarious since the ashling primitive is using an "ACA" thumbnail image for their account.  

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 03:53 PM  Star Member hlthe2b (49,866 posts)
2. You can also sell many used textbooks through Amazon marketplace...

Some popular and expensive volumes sell for quite a bit.

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 04:59 PM ashling (21,427 posts)
3. We have some listed there

just trying to cover all the bases

Yeah, by cover all the bases, they meant to say "All of this crap that I've listed is practically going for pennies on Amazon, please buy it from me here":

Her is a sampling of what I've got:

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John M. Barry  $1.49
paperback

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed $2.24
Hardbound

The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy by Bruce Ackerman $.74
Paperback

The American People in the Great Depression (part I in Freedom From Fear) by David M. Kennedy  $4.40
Paperback

Those are Goodwill books, primitive.  Drop them off there.    

[BannedFromDU]

     There has got to be a better way to earn 74 cents than sending a book across the country. What a loser.

[Chris_]

Garbage in, garbage out. 

The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy

The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in 1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. With Republican militias preparing to march on Washington, the House of Representatives deadlocked between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis. Ackerman shows how Thomas Jefferson counted his Federalist rivals out of the House runoff, and how the Federalists threatened to place John Marshall in the presidential chair. Nevertheless, the Constitution managed to survive through acts of statesmanship and luck.

Despite the intentions of the Framers, the presidency had become a plebiscitarian office. Thomas Jefferson gained office as the People's choice and acted vigorously to fulfill his popular mandate. This transformation of the presidency serves as the basis for a new look at Marbury v. Madison, the case that first asserted the Supreme Court's power of judicial review. Ackerman shows that Marbury is best seen in combination with another case, Stuart v. Laird, as part of a retreat by the Court in the face of the plebiscitarian presidency. This "switch in time" proved crucial to the Court's survival, allowing it to integrate Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic.

Ackerman presents a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective.

[BattleHymn]

     There has got to be a better way to earn 74 cents than sending a book across the country. What a loser.

Even at the federal minimum wage, it takes less than seven minutes to earn 74 cents. 

Wouldn't that be easier, primitive?  How about getting a j-o-b, or even TWO j-o-b-s? 

[BannedFromDU]

Even at the federal minimum wage, it takes less than seven minutes to earn 74 cents. 

Wouldn't that be easier, primitive?  How about getting a j-o-b, or even TWO j-o-b-s? 

     One? Two? Jeez, a THIRD OF A JOB would cover more than the book proceeds!

     Pathetic losers. Not because you DUmmies are poor, but because you're stupid and lazy.

[Dori]

     There has got to be a better way to earn 74 cents than sending a book across the country. What a loser.

Dummy;  "Oh look, I just sold a book for $.74"

Post Office:  "That will be $2.75 please"

Dummy: "Oh"

[Celtic Rose]

Textbooks are always best to sell as soon as the class is done, otherwise they will likely be obsolete.  I sold almost all my nursing school books as soon as the classes were done, and since I bought most of them used and I kept them in great condition I got most of my money back.  Once you are a year out, forget about making any significant money on them.

You might have up to a month or so to recoup your money with modern fiction books, once you get past that there are enough people re-selling them that it likely won't earn you anything.  Non-fiction might give you a little longer depending on the book.  Your best bet is either selling them in lots on e-bay, people sometimes pay more for the convenience of getting an entire series at once, or a bunch of books on similar topics, plus you will save on shipping, or giving them away on a website like Paperbackswap.com and then selling the book credits for cash. 

[BannedFromDU]

Textbooks are always best to sell as soon as the class is done, otherwise they will likely be obsolete.  I sold almost all my nursing school books as soon as the classes were done, and since I bought most of them used and I kept them in great condition I got most of my money back.  Once you are a year out, forget about making any significant money on them.

You might have up to a month or so to recoup your money with modern fiction books, once you get past that there are enough people re-selling them that it likely won't earn you anything.  Non-fiction might give you a little longer depending on the book.  Your best bet is either selling them in lots on e-bay, people sometimes pay more for the convenience of getting an entire series at once, or a bunch of books on similar topics, plus you will save on shipping, or giving them away on a website like Paperbackswap.com and then selling the book credits for cash. 

     I'm guessing this DUmmy has the Second Edition of texts that are in their 15th Edition. The scrap value of the texts is greater than resale.

[98ZJUSMC]

     But 0bama's unemployment rate is 0%, ie, he is employed, and that is worth more to a DUmmy than their actual wellbeing.

     Imagine being the child of a DUmmy. Shudder.

Once they get rid of all the Unpeople, full employment, baby!!

[DefiantSix]

Once they get rid of all the Unpeople, full employment, baby!!

They can get rid of all the "unpeople" and there would still be massive unemployment, mostly because if the DUmmy wet dream ever came to pass, the DUmbasses are too stupid and lazy to fill the newly created openings.

I'm an engineer: I've also seen leftists try to do my job, and it's really not pretty.

Banker/investment banker? Which DUmbshit can you think of to keep their fingers out of the damned till?

Doctor/nurse? No thank-you. I've seen how "lucid" the DUmbshit Warpy can get, and I wouldn't trust her to find my dipstick 3 times out of 5.

These assholes aren't perpetually unemployable because the Mean Wepubwicans keep taking the jobs from them; they're unemployable because they're untrustworthy, incompetent, lazy and couldn't take a whiz quiz without burning out the spectrometer.

[NHSparky]

Textbooks are always best to sell as soon as the class is done, otherwise they will likely be obsolete.  I sold almost all my nursing school books as soon as the classes were done, and since I bought most of them used and I kept them in great condition I got most of my money back.  Once you are a year out, forget about making any significant money on them.

You might have up to a month or so to recoup your money with modern fiction books, once you get past that there are enough people re-selling them that it likely won't earn you anything.  Non-fiction might give you a little longer depending on the book.  Your best bet is either selling them in lots on e-bay, people sometimes pay more for the convenience of getting an entire series at once, or a bunch of books on similar topics, plus you will save on shipping, or giving them away on a website like Paperbackswap.com and then selling the book credits for cash. 

Math and science books are always good for references, unless you have that REALLY old one that discusses the Earth as the center of the solar system.

I knew I should never have bought that Gutenberg bible from that guy.  Something seems off about it.