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Cash for Books, CDs, DVDs, Games, & Etoys

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1. Books
Run by McKenzie Books in Beaverton, Ore., Cash4Books.net will pay you between 57 cents and $120 per used book. How much you get depends on a book's weight and retail value, how quickly it is expected to sell and how many copies are already in the company's warehouse, says Crystalin Tadano, senior customer-service representative. The company specializes in college textbooks and technical books, which are more likely to pay top dollar than, say, paperback novels. Shipping is paid by Cash4Books. You get free FedEx shipping if you sell five or more books. You can get paid by check or PayPal. If you choose the latter, you get a 3% bonus to offset the PayPal fees.

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2. CDs, DVDs and games
Do you have old CDs, DVDs and games gathering dust on your shelves? A Santa Barbara, Calif.-area company, Morninglory Music, which runs CashforCDs.com, will pay you between $1 and $3 per CD and DVD, and between $3 and $5 for each PlayStation, Xbox or Wii game, says Stan Bernstein, the company's owner. How much you get depends on a disc's title and condition.

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3. iPhones, Zunes and other small electronics
Don't just toss your old or broken iPod, Zune or iPhone. Rapid Repair of Kalamazoo, Mich., will be happy to pay you for it. The company, which has been in business since 2004, specializes in repairing small electronics but also buys them from consumers to use for spare parts or to repair and resell as refurbished. How much you get for your unwanted gadget depends on its model and condition. You might get anywhere from $20 to $50 for an old iPod with a broken screen, if the device or its spare parts are in demand, says Ben Levy, the company's owner. An iPhone 3G can fetch up to $200.

Check out the fine print.

and don't forget cash for gold, a big scammy biz right now

Gold is easy to dispose of, it's only a question of getting what it's worth.
However, books and toys sometimes can't even be given away, so finding a way to dispose of them, without adding to the trash stream, is a welcome option. If you can get a couple bucks, all the better.

especially the porny ones.

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Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 601769)

especially the porny ones.

I was wondering about this...

I wonder how much they'd pay for a 55-year, nearly 56-year stack of PlayBoy? ;)

Or the same number of National Geographics, but it doesn't mention magazines, does it?

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 601789)

Or the same number of National Geographics, but it doesn't mention magazines, does it?

I'd count PlayBoy as a book! It's got so many interesting... articles.

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Originally Posted by TheDaVinciChode (Post 601807)

I'd count PlayBoy as a book! It's got so many interesting... articles.

And it's a got a hard cover. at least most of them have, second hand....

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 601819)

And it's a got a hard cover. at least most of them have, second hand....

Agreed... Sometimes, in the older copies, the pages even have a subtle odour of sex, or something sex-related, anyway... I can't quite put my finger on it.

Brilliant, well-preserved books!

Yah I am tired of driving.....How ridiculous is it to sell the books for the price it took to get to the store? blaaah. They don't even know Hannah Arendt either..pikers.

Playboy has articles?

Huh.....

Imagine that.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 601766)

Buying gold is even harder.

Used book stores will give credit for trade on more books.

Women's and children's crisis shelters for donating toys in good condition.

A garage sale. Label a box 'free' and put all the stuff you don't want in it.

If I sell my textbooks I generally do so online. I get a much better return than what I could at the college bookstore. I haven't sold any for a couple of semesters now though, they might come in handy. I have been buying online though, and that saved me about half off what is sold used at the bookstores.

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Originally Posted by TheDaVinciChode (Post 601782)

I was wondering about this...

I wonder how much they'd pay for a 55-year, nearly 56-year stack of PlayBoy? ;)

If you have a 55 year stack of playboys, please to scan all the centerfolds and make a filmstrip of the shrinking bushes?