1. Why You Should Buy & Sell Your Used Books on Half.com Instead of to the School Bookstore Tiffany Bonneau Speech 2400 http://www.shaftnet.org/~spacegirl

2. Are You Tired of... n Being n Being Overcharged For Books n Getting n Getting Less than 50% Back When You Sell Your Books to the Bookstore n Not n Not Being Able to Sell Your Books Back n Wasting n Wasting Time Trying Trying to Find Buyers for Your Books?

3. Half.com n Founded by Joshua Kopelman, a University of Pennsylvania grad student in 1999, after realizing the demand for a better way to buy & sell used mass market items like books & movies n Purchased by eBay.com in July 2000 after Half.com quickly became one of the most visited websites on the web

4. How the Process Works n Collect your used books, CDs, movies, video games, computers, electronics, sporting goods, or trading cards. n Get the ISBN or UPC numbers from your used items n List Your Items on Half.com, especially the ones the bookstore does not want to buy back.

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7. Whare are ISBN or UPC Numbers? From www.half.com

8. Selling Your Stuff n Once your items are listed, you keep the books until Half.com emails you that they have a buyer. n You can either confirm or cancel the sale. n If you confirm the sale, you need to ship the item within 3 days via the method the buyer selected.

9. Collecting Payments n Half.com processes the payment so you don’t have to worry about bounced check or late payments n Half.com charges 15% commission on each sale, but they do give you a shipping reimbursement for each sale and do not charge listing fees.

10. Getting Paid n On the 1st and 16th of each month, Half.com pays you all the monies collected for your sales in the previous 15 days. n You can be paid by direct deposit to your bank account or check.

11. A Few Examples...

12. Logic & Computer Design Fundamentals by Charles R. Kime, M. Morris Mano n List Price: $105.00 n Bookstore New: $105.00 n Bookstore Used: $76.25 n Half.com Like New: $55.00 n Half.com Lowest Price: $55.00 You Save 28% Over the Used Bookstore Price

13. Differential Equations n List Price: $101.95 n Bookstore New: $116.00 n Bookstore Used: $87.00 n Half.com Like New: $60.00 n Half.com Lowest Price: $53.74 You Save 31% Over the Used Bookstore Price

14. Database Management n List Price: $82.67 n Bookstore New: $100.00 n Bookstore Used: $78.75 n Half.com Like New: $64.00 n Half.com Lowest Price: $64.00 You Save 19% Over the Used Bookstore Price

15. Why Half.com is Better n It’s safer because you ship rather than meet buyers. n Save time by not having to place flyers, meet potential buyers, or have to go to the bookstore because the buyers come to you. n You can potentially get more money because items can be listed for more than half of their list value. n And….

16. Why Half.com is Better n Half.com is always there when the bookstore does not want to buy your books back because your professors have gone to a new edition!!

17. Visit Half.com Today! n So if you want to save some money on next semester’s textbooks, visit Half.com today!Half.com