BookScouterReviews of bookscouter.com

Its very helpful in finding multiple vendors to buy books. However, when looking at what the same book will be sold for, it is very discouraging to see the exorbitant mark up, often being 1000% or more of what these vendors buy the books for...PLUS I have to pay to ship the book to them? There goes any $$ a seller hopes to gain.

It works well with new books. It doesn’t work at all for older books. The algorithm keeps coming up with the wrong book, but the algorithm works fine on eBay, google, and other book scouting platforms for their books from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. I wouldn’t pay for the service until they get this fixed. Then it could truly be the next category king. They just have a few hurdles to clear.

Good service when it works, but it doesn't half the time as of late

Wow, they bring buyback prices from so many companies!! Before you get too excited, keep in mind most of the companies never buy back ANYTHING. Also, most of them have 50.00 minimums. So before they buy that publication manual of yours for 8.00 (and they probably take just one copy) you need to find more books to put in your order, which you won't. I purchase 3,000 pounds of books a day and I can only use 4 of the companies on the list. There are only 4 major players, the others listed are just wasting space. It's just a page of not currently buying, not currently buying. The phone app is painstakingly slow unlike the brilliant desktop version which allows you to use a barcode scanner and you never need to touch the keyboard or mouse. The phone app cannot be used with a scanner (to my knowledge) but who wants to sell a book to powells for a dollar anyway when you can sell it on Amazon for 25.00 bucks? This app will not tell you what you can get for it on Amazon so you are forced to use two different apps. one to tell you what it is worth on amazon and this one to tell you if you can get a couple bucks if it holds no amazon value. the average price one of the companies pays for a book is 1.50 so it's not a tool to make you money, more like a tool to salvage what you can from the book inventory you already have. Who cares about the one book chegg or CKY books will buy??I have yet to place an order with chegg, cky, valorebooks or bookbyte or bluerocketbooks. Why are all these useless names on here? A truly good scouting app will just list the main players, allow fast scanning And show the lowest price it is selling for on amazon.