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What Oregon Books and Games Pays for Used Books

We buy books for cash or credit that we feel we can resell. We will purchase whole libraries or single titles.

CASH: We pay in cash approximately 30% of what we expect to realize for the books bought. This is based upon desirability, market value or in-print price, condition, and our current stock levels.

CREDIT: We offer in store credit of 25% of the cover price on paperbacks and 50% of what we expect to realize on other books depending upon popularity, which can be used for special orders or purchasing any item in the store.

Example #1: "The Partner" by John Grisham, Paperback Cover Price $7.99

We sell paperbacks consistently at 1/2 the cover price ($4.00).

You would receive 98¢ in cash or $1.97 in store credit. (25% x 7.99 = $1.97, half of credit total is 98¢ in cash)

Example #2: "The Partner" by John Grisham, Hardback 1st Ed Fine Cover Price $27.00

We would anticipate selling this book for $9.00

You would receive $2.70 in cash or $4.50 in store credit.

 

How Much Is It Worth?

The value of a book is based on two main factors, condition and rarity.

The condition of most books is the primary contributing factor to its value. As an example; if a fine condition copy of a book with a dust jacket that is also fine, is valued at $100.00, a copy without a dust jacket and stains on the cover would have a value of $3.00 to $5.00 as a reference or reading copy only. We recommend and use the following www.abebooks.com; www.half.com; www.alibris.com. Book conditions are rated as follows:

Good: A worn, creased, books often with rolled spine, crumpled and worn corners are expected. All pages in-tack, could have some writing inside, could be a public library copy, could have some stains, sun bleached, yellowing of the pages, dust jacket could be torn, ragged, and taped. (Good reference or reading copy)

Good to Very Good: A borderline book closer to Very Good than Good.

Very Good: Typical used book. A solid copy. No stains, dust jacket or cover could have minor dents, very minor stain, minimal writing on inside, no more than 3 minor defects.

Near Fine: A beautiful copy. No creases, could have a small color chip or minor pencil arrival mark, could have slight yellowing, but not brown.

Fine: New off the shelf quality, could show very light traces of being read.

 

What Won't We Buy?

With so many books in the world, and our own stock continually changing, it is impossible to say exactly what we'll be interested in at any one time. However, we can say exactly what kinds of books we are not interested in. Those are:

Damaged books

Family Bibles

Old textbooks

Old encyclopedia sets

Adult series westerns (Longarm, etc)

Adult series romances (Harlequin, etc)

Magazines

Most book club editions

That leaves a lot that we are interested in, so please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you have a collection or a single book you're interested in selling.

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