Live data from Hacker News

Sell your used textbooks for beer

beerfortextbooks.com

21–30 of 32 posts

Re: Sell your used textbooks for beer

#21
post #19

I initially thought this was going to let me sell my textbooks and have beer delivered to my door. Sadly, it looks like it just calculates the beer value of your books (unless I am missing something here).

something like that. we're actually offering links to online vendors (textbooksrus.com, chegg.com amazon.com, bookbyte.com, etc), that will send you a check for your books

Re: Sell your used textbooks for beer

#22
post #20
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're working on the Firefox issues. Sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback though. We don't actually sell beer, but rather give you a quote of how much beer you could buy if you sold your book.

Same problem in Chrome 10.0 on OSX...

thanks for all the feedback. we actually put this site together over the weekend for StartUp Weekend Kalamazoo. look for bug fixes over the next week.

Re: Sell your used textbooks for beer

#27
post #8

The expanding images on rollover is awful usability, the site idea is clever. Does anyone have an example number I can use to see how it works? I don't have any text books and don't know what to search for on Amazon.

We meant to post a Show HN. We'll work on the usability. We built this out of a startup weekend. Not exactly a startup yet, but we had a lot of fun. Thanks for the feedback.

[deleted]

Re: Sell your used textbooks for beer

#28

The expanding images on rollover is awful usability, the site idea is clever. Does anyone have an example number I can use to see how it works? I don't have any text books and don't know what to search for on Amazon.

You can search for titles and authors too. Try typing in something like 'math' or 'economics' or anything...

Re: Sell your used textbooks for beer

#30
post #16

this is awesome! My calc book is worth two kegs of heineken

I have a feeling that fraternities will become the biggest buyers of used calc text books.

Sounds like an idea but I don't think it will happen. Normally one can get a discount on kegs so no need for that. Kegs are only bought during public events (rush week, house parties ..etc) when they are an abundance of people at the bar. The same happens at Freshman Events.

Also the older groups have good backings (alumni, club owners/promoters, student fundraisers)... definitely no need to cut corners like that for delayed cheques.

Student Clubs' Stores (http://www.havenbooks.ca/) are more likely to buy used text books.

Post reply on HN