https://booksr4reading.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/a-business-opportunity/
As everyone knows, I’ve been trying to sell the BookMark for a number of years now.
To recap, $25,000 for 35K(+/-) books, shelving, furniture, and the goodwill of Panama’s most famous used English bookstore. Retail value for the books alone come to around $250,000.
Years ago, we had listed on Alibris nearly 500 books for sale online, the individual value of those books were from $5 to $100, plus we were allotted $10 (paid by Alibris) for shipping, so, if a book only cost $5 to ship, we made an additional $5. There was also a provision for over-sized books.
I haven’t kept it up because that was Harold’s thing, plus my motivation was extremely low at the time so I couldn’t be bothered.
In any case, since then, I’ve acquired a large number of books from different sources that I have discovered are worth significant money, with a number of them worth over $1000 each. Unfortunately, right now they are sitting in boxes, I don’t recall exactly the titles (they were text books, historical series, etc), but at the time I had checked out the prices on E-bay, and there’s a small fortune to be made.
Which goes back to the point, since I’m a lazy, terrible procrastinator…If anyone is interested, they could re-establish the Alibris business, the BookMark receives 50% of the sale. In addition to that, those higher-end books would be sold on E-bay(I’ve seen some of those bidding wars, you’d be surprised), for those books, the seller would receive 25%.
The best part, this is something that can be done from the comfort of your home.
Of course, at this point, I’m just punting around ideas. We could do a trail balloon and see how it works out.
In any case, the person would have to…
Have an E-bay account.
Have a PayPal account.(?)
Perfect English speaker.
Have a love and understanding of books.
If interested, please contact me and we could work out the details.
Ellis_m_1@yahoo.com
