Let us sell your books for extra money, your fundraisers or for book credits...
We accept books on consignment and attempt to sell them to our clients in our WhatsApp groups on your behalf.
REGRET: OUR INVENTORY IS FULL - WE ARE ONLY TAKING SPECIFIC AUTHORS AT THE MOMENT - PLEASE WHATSAPP EVELYN ON 083 294 5616 FOR INFORMATION.
How it works:
- https://littlebookshoppie.co.za/bookswithacause.html
- Valuation: A valuation will be done only once we receive your books. Please see our retail estimates at the bottom of the page to get an idea of how much you may get for your books after commission if we manage to sell them on your behalf.
- Book Labeling: We label all books on the back with their selling price, our logo and details and your unique code so that we can identify them from others.
- Delivery: Once we have agreed to sell your books on your behalf, please arrange to deliver your books in person on a Thursday (Outside of Public Holidays) or use Pudo to Kiosk service.
- Courier Costs: All delivery and collection costs are for the sellers account.
- Commissions: Little Book Shoppie takes a 50% commission on all sold books.
- Payouts: Payments are made via EFT as soon as we are paid for the books sold and generally it is no later than the 30th / 31st of the following month. If you are a buying client, the amount due to you will be credited to your account, any credit balances left over after we have debited your current order can be paid out via EFT or kept as book credit.
- Unsold Books: We try to sell books for up to 3-4 months depending on the nature of the books. Please collect unsold books within 10 business days after all sales & payments are concluded or donate them to the shop. Unsold books not collected after 10 business days from the concluded date will not be stored for any reason, the books will be sold with no monies payable to you or donated towards our chosen charity organization.
- Terms: We accept a limited amount of consignments in accordance to our clientele’s reading preferences, storage facilities, available time to sell, etc. and can refuse your books for whatever reason.
- Storage Terms: Books are sent and stored on our premises at the seller's risk.
Books we no longer wish to sell:
- Encyclopedias
- Old Afrikaans Romances
- Old English Mills & Boon Books / Silhouette Books
- Any books with missing pages, pages that are about to fall out, or any books poor condition in general.
- Dirty books - No matter how good the condition - Please clean and dust your books before you send - A tad bit of Mr Min, a soft cloth and some gentle elbow grease works very well.
- Water damaged books
- Old Reader's Digests - Red / Green / Blue
- Magazines
- Paper Comics
Retail Estimates:
If books are clean, neat and in good to very good like new condition they can retail anywhere between these ranges depending on author and nature of books:
Small paperbacks/hardcovers - R20 - R50
Medium paperbacks/hardcovers - R30 - R60
Large paperbacks/hardcovers - R40 - R80
If the books are in very high demand, but scarce, the amounts can be even higher.
*Book shop gets 50% commission on all sales. I.e.: If we sold your book for R40 the book shop takes R20 and you get R20. Our commission is not negotiable.
Small paperbacks/hardcovers - R20 - R50
Medium paperbacks/hardcovers - R30 - R60
Large paperbacks/hardcovers - R40 - R80
If the books are in very high demand, but scarce, the amounts can be even higher.
*Book shop gets 50% commission on all sales. I.e.: If we sold your book for R40 the book shop takes R20 and you get R20. Our commission is not negotiable.
We are based in Harrismith - But do send books nationwide via Pudo / The Courier Guy. Delivery is for the buyer's cost.