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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    A great charity also as I know how how much pressure the NHS is under these days!
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    That's funny as I actually sent them an email earlier on to find out more. Would be interesting to hear why these are getting sold on
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    Have you had any luck with buying from ebay in bulk? Looks interesting but what I am wondering about is how to know that a lot of it is not all rubbish from large sellers who cant offload them?
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    This is something I am trying to find out more about, I see that a lot of the bigger players have long term contracts with charity shops which makes things difficult for new business
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    Thanks for your reply Bill, the area I was looking at was to buy in mass bulk and job lots. Its a very low margin area of book sales but one of the things I am worried about is that the system is closed to the bigger players who have made long term deals with charity stores etc. I had a previous...
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    stock market

    Last post by mistake - Finally if you want to check out reputable academics to learn from there is a professor who teaches a masters course in valuation at NYU Stern school of business. His name is Aswath Damodaran and he has his entire masters course online for anyone to learn from. Then there...
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    stock market

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    stock market

    You'll find a lot of city workers are ex army etc. This will be a help to you as the banking and finance sector appreciate the skills you would have learned in the army. Regimented, team player, working under pressure etc. As for doing engineering, maths etc. if you put your head to it and put...
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    stock market

    PPS - Years and years ago "who you know" got you in the door but you cant do that without a 2:1 or a first degree from a redbrick university anymore. No shortcuts to the trading floor unfortunately
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    stock market

    PS - Barclays and a few others do apprenticeship type things for ex-army but try and push people taking this option towards stock sales and back office roles (which in itself is not a bad area to be in) sales involves a lot of traveling though and back office is lucky in that they get to leave...
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    stock market

    Mate. Just remember you asked about stock trading. Please do me a favour - forget what all the others on here have said, they are trying to be helpful but don't know what they are talking about. Stock trading is as exciting a career as you want it to be and yes plenty of people still get hired...
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    Can anyone recommend any reading (or even more advice) I could learn about the industry?
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    Thanks and yeah that's something I must look into more :)
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    I'd prefer to sell second hand books as new ones come under pressure from amazon online.
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    Selling second hand books as a business?

    Now that would be annoying! Actually seeing paper go to waste would too. Anyone know where I can start out sourcing books from?
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