FAQ's
Where do I find books?
How do I identify books to check?
How do I pay for the books?
Can I keep some of the books?
How do I ship the books?
How do I get paid for books?
Do I get reimbursed for my mileage or other
expenses?
Do you support Mac? Linux?
How do I get started?
Where do I find books?
There are a lot of different places that you can find your books.
You can find them at thrift stores like the Goodwill or Salvation
Army, or you can find them at weekend garage sales, or you can even
find them at your local used bookstore on the clearance rack.
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How do I identify books to check?
Identifying the books that you want to check is an important skill
that you will develop with experience. You don’t want to check
all of the books that you see, because it would take too long to
find the good ones. You might only end up buying one in one hundred
if you did it this way. Generally, you want to focus on newer non-fiction.
Self-help, religion, cooking, arts and crafts, and text books are
usually a good place to start. Fiction, is also good, but you may
have to check more fiction books than non-fiction books to get the
same number of buys.
Our experienced scouts often end up purchasing about one out of
every ten non-fiction books that they call in.
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How do I pay for the books?
You have to use your own money to purchase the books you find. However,
for each book that you send us, BookTrolls will send you a flat
rate of $3.75 to cover the cost of the book and to pay you for your
time and effort.
We have found that generally books around the country are about
$1.75 each. If this is what you are paying for your books, you will
make $2.00 for each book that you send us ($3.75 payment - $1.75
cost of book). If you find the books for less than
$1.75 you will make more money, but if you find the books for more
than $1.75 you will make less money. Most of our full-time scouts
find more than 300 books per week.
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Can I keep some of the books?
You are obligated to ship us all of the books that you call in and
our book identification system tells you to buy. BookTrolls keeps
track of all your look-ups, and each box is verified
to ensure that it is complete.
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How do I ship the books?
BookTrolls pays for shipping costs. Take your books to the local
Post Office and ship them Media Mail (book rate postage). As soon
as the books arrive, we will reimburse you for the cost of the shipping.
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How do I get paid for books?
As soon as the box is unpacked and verified, BookTrolls will provide
you with immediate payment. We can pay you through direct deposit
into your checking or savings account, or through Pay Pal, or we
can mail you a personal check, whatever you prefer.
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Do I get reimbursed for my mileage or other
expenses?
As private contractors, BookTrolls does not reimburse you for any
mileage or expenses associated with finding your books. However,
the IRS does allow you to write off these expenses against your
personal income tax.
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Do you support Mac? Linux?
We provide a barcode scanner and a Treo 650 PDA phone to experienced scouts who wish to scout professionally.
This Treo must be connected to your PC every night for internet access. You run special software called Softick PPP on your PC
to bridge your Treo to the internet. This
software runs only on Windows -- not Mac or unix. Alternatively, you may pay
for monthly data service on your Treo to bypass the need for any
computer at all. You'll need an unlimited data plan, but connection speed is irrelevant. More details available upon signup.
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How do I get started?
Simply click here to register.
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