The temporary nature of our buybacks is why some municipalities define us as a Transient Peddler, one who sets up temporary locations for one’s trade.

But what if I have more books to sell?

Contact us at the bottom of the About Us page and we’ll be glad to discuss it.

Why Temporary Locations?

Because we were students when we started BookFool.com, we knew from the beginning that students needed more money for their textbooks at the end of every semester. But how to accomplish that?

Clearly the current system is broken, so you start from scratch. First you create a website and build a proprietary buyback program based on an entirely new way of pricing books that beats the socks off of the campus bookstore.

Then you keep your costs down. Maintaining a permanent location is an unnecessary cost if your focus is used textbooks. Your local bookstore must sell pencils, paper, sweatshirts, caps, greeting cards, day planners, candy bars, Scantron cards, blue exam books, and more…all at a significant markup…just to pay the rent on their location.

We have no interest in selling pencils, so we keep it simple and partner with local merchants. They get rent money and increased foot traffic. We get a place to conduct business. You get better prices on your books. And the local economy gets an infusion of cash. It’s a win-win-win-win.

In that context, peddler has a nice ring to it, we think. And tens of thousands of our customers think so too!

Thanks for the great buyback, all! See you again soon,
-The BookFool.com Team

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1. Welcome, Belmont Vision Readers
2. Victims of the Corporate Assassination Squad
3. Summer Buybacks 2009