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The Book Cover is a consignment resale store front and an on-line store for homeschool textbooks and educational resources. We exist to help the homeschool family with their curriculum buying and selling. We are here to help the busy family find the materials they need, to help the unsure family try a curriculum or resource for a reduced price, to help the family on a budget recover some of the cost from a year of homeschooling and to save on buying for the next. <<<<>>>> Links:
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Home Consignment Specials Register Maps Announcements Shopping Our Consignment Process The business of The Book Cover is selling books on consignment. So without our customers who bring or ship books to our store for resale, we have no inventory. More than 800 consigners so far have used us as a hassle free way to get some of their $$$ back on curriculum! Our consignment process is very simple; Here is how it works: You bring us books - We send you checks. That is the simple view, but to elaborate; You bring, or ship, your items to be resold to our store. No appointment is needed, unless you have 100s of books! Fill out and sign our “Consignment Agreement”, then we assign you a Customer Number and a copy of the agreement will be given to you. This is a 12 month contract between you and us. We provide you a 40% return for the books sold. We will collect your items and box them, if not already boxed, and mark them with your Customer Number. (Please remove any “sale” type stickers from the front of your books.) Our policy for pricing items can go 1 of 2 ways: you may set the sales price of any or all of your items; or you may elect to use our guideline. Be aware that if you establish a higher price for an item that we already have a copy of on our shelves, your item will probably not sell for this higher price, and if you establish a lower price you lose potential profits. Most customers choose to use our pricing guideline. Our policy is: For curriculum and curriculum related items of current edition in new or “as new” condition, the price will be 70% of the lowest current retail price of a new copy of the item. For curriculum and curriculum related items of older editions in new or “as new” condition, the price will be 60% of the current list price of a new copy of the item. For both current and older editions, items of less than “as new” condition, the price will be reduced by increments of 10% or 20%. Items that are in poor or damaged condition will probably not sell so we would prefer not to even receive items in that condition. For items that are not directly curriculum related, we use a “what the market will bear” approach. We will consider the price of similar items already listed in the store, what it can be bought for at other local stores and what it is selling for on the internet. After receiving your items, we will inventory them, price them and add them to our store database and add them to our on-line store. They will then have our price sticker with the “Book Number” attached to them and placed on our shelves for sale. We will also send you a copy of your inventory describing the primary details about each item along with our sales price. (The owner of each item is kept in our computer, so no one can determine who has consigned a book based on our sticker.) Once sold: Every quarter we review all of our sold books and make consignee payments. These checks are then mailed to the address you have given us on your contract. If your balance is less than $10.00, we will keep your credit on file until it reaches the $10.00 level or until you request payment. You may also use any store credit toward the purchase of materials at our store. Contract review: At the end of the 12-month contract period we will extend the contract for another 6 month period and reduce your prices by 20%. You may request to pick up your items instead. We encourage you to consign your homeschool curriculum with us. If you live outside the Dallas/Ft. Worth area you may be thinking, “it is impractical for me to consign my books with a store in North Richland Hills, Texas.” But consider this; If you were to ship us 25 books weighing 30 pounds or less ( I weighed 25 misc. curriculum books here at the store and they were just under 30 lbs.) using Media Mail at the USPS, the shipping charges would be $13.68 (May 2009 rate). If those books sold for an average sale price of $6.96, (our actual average in 2008) the gross income from those books would be $174.00. Now, at a 40% consignment rate less your shipping and listing fee, you could net $50.92. If you have books that are of higher value, you could profit even more than this! So please consider shipping and consigning your homeschool materials with us. We have a very large market of homeschoolers in this area where our store is located to buy your books in addition to an online web exposure to the whole world. Together we can profit from your books! Thank you for your support.
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