So I recently went on my first (used) book buying trip to an "Estate Sale". I put estate sale in parenthesis because I am not sure that it wasn't really a glorified yard sale. But it was successful from a book buying perspective, as I bought about 15 books, most for a quarter each and was able to list all but one or two of them on Amazon. The average price I listed them was somewhat over $10.00 which means a pretty good potential for profit. Here is an example of one of the more valuable books.
The reason I had not been to an estate sale before was because I was unable to find them - there never seemed to be any listed in my local paper - plenty of yard sales which rarely have any valuable books. Finally I just punched "Estate Sales Virginia" into Google, and along with half a dozen links to companies that run estate sales, there was a link to Craig's List DC garage and moving sale listings. After clicking on the Northern Virginia tab I was able to find sales near me and sure enough one of them was listed as an estate sale. There are at least two more estate sales this weekend that claim to have old books which I just might have to check out.
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