I bought many reference book when I was preparing for graduate schools’ entrance examinations. During that time, I was gathering information though blogs written by people who actually experienced those examinations. Basically, I bought almost every books they recommended. Although I had only read 40% of the books I bought, I would never know if I really needed them unless I bought them.
Here is my current problem; I don’t need them anymore. Some of those reference books are really classic and helpful even for graduate school students, so I will keep them. For the rest, I was always wondering how I can deal with them. You know, I live in a really small apartment, which means I don’t have too much extra space to collect something I don’t need. However, there are people still out there that want those books, because they still have value.
I accidentally heard a friend of mine mention the issues he had in his selling books on Amazon. This is the first time I realized that even individuals are able to sell stuff on Amazon. After some research I registered a seller account and found unlike the buyer side, the whole system for sellers is really unfriendly, many be intentionally. First, they misled me to register as a professional seller, which means I need to pay Amazon 5,000 yen every month. I don’t realize this fact until I found the transaction on my card statement. It felt like Amazon caught me in a trap and I was pissed off at that moment. After some mails and calls with the service center, they promised to return the professional account fees.
Besides the misleading part, things were not bad. My old reference books were sold gradually. Instead of making my own address public, I use my school’s address. For delivery, I am using a service called “Click Post” offered by Japan Post. It’s cheap and easy to use. All I have to do is pay the mail fee online and out the package into the mailbox with a label pasted. The whole process is actually a little bit fun.