Sell it Back: Cash for Books
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Sell it Back: Cash for Books has no in-app products on record in the United States.
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| Sell it Back: Cash for Books |   Not On The High Street |   Easyfundraising |   GreenJinn Cashback App |   Books2Door | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating / 5 | 3.2 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| Reviews | 239 | 52K | 20K | 2.9K | 697 |
| Released | 2020 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2022 |
Sell it Back: Cash for Books reviews
3.2 out of 5, based on 239 reviews.
What people like
- Quick and easy to scan barcodes
- Payment process is fast once approved
- User interface is very simple to use
What they complain about
- Low offers and high rejection rates
- App bugs prevent deleting items from list
- Camera scanning often fails or is unauthorized
- Poor security with plain text password emails
Great book selling App
Used this App to scan used books I no longer need, it works really well, scanned easily, I didn’t have to keep holding the book back and forth to focus on the barcode. Price given instantly if a valid barcode is available. I like this App.
Useless
Downloaded app but couldn’t get it to scan, not wasting any more time on it!!
Unfair / don’t use them
They would get 1 star but they did send money quite quickly- they offer you money but then reject them when they arrive they don’t provide evidence of reason for rejection so they could be just using them for their own profit by selling them anyway. It’s a bit unfair when you could have sent the books to the other similar companies. Would not use again
Operationally a mess, don’t trust
It took 3.5 weeks for SellItBack to mark my package as having arrived — major delays in their warehouse? I wasn’t kept informed, and thought I wouldn’t get paid at all. And their password reset email was sent showing my password in plain text! Terrible, terrible security practices. It seems a young & overwhelmed company, which might go out of business soon? Not trustworthy — try WeBuyBooks instead.
Very legit app
Very quick in payment and offer good service
Poor
I scanned 30 books I was offered money for from another site and this one offered nothing. I don’t have time to scan books your don’t want to take. That’s a lot of books to get nothing at all won’t be using this app
Time waste
So bad doesn't even work properly do report it and do not install
Camera is unauthorised?
Hi, the app looks really easy to use and is very effective but I am having to type each code in because it says that the camera is unauthorised. For reference, I have a legitimate iPhone 8 and an iPad Air 2 and both don’t work. Help!
Fast and easy to use
Very easy to use this application and payment was also quick, highly recommend to use it. Thanks
Awful app
Takes about 2 minutes between each scan for it to give you an evaluation and then when you ship them off most of them end up being rejected anyway. I would stick to a more reputable app. There are better book selling apps out there this one is very stingy and is a must avoid.
Book prices
The app is good but for several books it didn’t give me a price and just said no offer. For books that had been read once and were in pristine condition it gave me 10p which was shocking. Not a great set up and it only scans particular books. I deleted it immediately
Highly recommended to use sell it back application
Something is better than nothing.I earned few money with my used book and was easy and fast to use this application .
Bad service and full of bugs
I’ve been selling loads of books atm and this is the worst app for it. First the app is full of bugs, not letting me delete books from my list or constantly crashing and taking ages to scan even tho I used other book scanning apps at the same time and were much faster. Then to top it off I’ve had the books waiting for collection for nearly a month now, have rearranged multiple dates for collection but evri never come. (If anyone knows evri are rebound for being terrible) you better off using World of Books or We Buy Books.
The price paid for my books
The prices paid for my books were absolutely appalling-most of them were in quite good condition, read once or twice, and the most I was offered for one of them was £0.22!
Best app for used books
Ui is Quick and easy.. just send the book.. lets see how fast the payment process is.
Payment Issue
Application doesn’t allowed you to check out with bank payment same at the site also. That’s too much suspicious
You don’t get the price offered
I got given a quarter of the offered price. I sent a shipment of 15 books and apparently there were problems with 11 of them, yet 6 of them were brand new books so God knows what’s wrong with those. When I’ve sent books to other apps, they only reject 1 maybe 2 max. Much better to use them instead. They also don’t even tell what was ‘wrong’ with them like the other apps do too.
Mr bro 1234
Still waiting for payment, but I suspect it is around the corners. So far so good, sent parcel on Thursday received confirmation the next day (Friday). So far so good
Don’t bother
I tried to scan books. Only 4 out of 50 books had a resale price of between £0.10 to £0.59, The rest showed no price at all. Pretty useless app.
Hello I’m Dj with my 2star review
Hello I’m dj I’m am annoyed that some of my books would not work bit some were good
A real find
I’ve been trying to get rid of several hundred books and since lockdown am finding charity shops don’t want donations as they’ve been inundated. It seems that everyone has had a clear out at the same time. I have started selling them to Sellitback and can’t recommend this app highly enough. Yes, it’s surprising and disappointing when an expensive book is rejected but the company make it very clear that they operate according to demand. Bestsellers and genre fiction is often rejected or a very low offer made. On the other hand, textbooks and self-help books have often netted me £2 or £3. Sellers are not entitled to receive what they think their books are worth, nor are they forced to use this app!
Lowball offers and lots of “no offer”
Waste of time! of the 10 books I scanned only 4 get an offer. Real lowball 50p or 75p the others got no offer despite 1 being so new it’s not even out in paperback yet. Not worth the effort involved for such a small reward. Don’t waste your time.
After Uni unhaul
I just finished uni and had sooo many books I wanted to get rid of and this made it so easy! The app is super user friendly to use too.
Cannot register
I am getting to the password in the registration process and it is not accepting anything. It was difficult to enter my address too, only worked with find my address not manual entry of address. It is very infuriating. Please can you advise as to how I can register going forward. Many thanks
Lottiekins
I’ve used a few of these apps. This one just doesn’t seem to work! If it gives you an offer it then seemed to add it multiple times to the basket and then fail to respond to the delete request. I will have to delete this app.
No use at all
Could not register as it would not accept my address, when I filled out address line 1, it seemed OK but entering address line 2 it deleted line 1. This sometimes happens on other apps and is duet to there being no house number, just a name. Just entering the name on address line 1 usually gets around the problem but not in this case. I then tried scanning around 20 books it accepted 4 of them. When I looked at the basket it had put in three of the books twice and the other one three times. It then generated an error when I tried to delete any of the entries. Total waste of time
Sell it Back: Cash for Books FAQ
- Is Sell it Back: Cash for Books free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does Sell it Back: Cash for Books have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to Sell it Back: Cash for Books?
- Not On The High Street (4.9 from 51,782 reviews), Easyfundraising (4.7 from 19,560 reviews) and GreenJinn Cashback App (4.7 from 2,906 reviews).
Sell it Back: Cash for Books download
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Sell it Back: Cash for Books sells in 175 countries. It was released 6 years and 8 months ago, on 30 Jan 2020. It holds a 3.2 rating from 239 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
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