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70-80 new US books for November 2011
November 6, 2011I went to the library today and scored another big box of exciting books. I dont know why they dont fly off the shelves, they are truly awesome. Some real classics here!!!!
Heart Of Darkness
September 21, 2011wow, three copies of Heart Of Darkness!!! Must be popular!!! Which one will you buy?
Its All Go This September
September 10, 2011Went to Amaerica and brought another box of crap, er, I mean wonderful antique books from the Library. Photo below, but they’ll appear over the next few months, in theory. Also, sold another book!! Thats 11 books sold, and its September… And I flew into Newark Airport and saw New York for real including the [...]
10 Books
June 7, 2011Wow!!!! After 2 years ive passed the first mile stone!!!! 10 books sold!!!!!!! I can feel this site QUICKLY moving into the fast lane. I can hardly breath because of all the adrelenine surging through my body!! I feel like a banker!!!
Postage Rates
Just sold a few more books and noted that postge has gone up, effectivly by 22%.
Luton Books
January 29, 2011was in Luton so I went to the library, Dunstable actually, where I selectivly aquired 30-40 exciting books for you to purchase.
more new books
September 29, 2010brought 66 books off of a gilr in London that was heading back to her own country. So thats even more books that need scanning and uploading, so I think we can safely say that theres enough pending stuff to last until Christmas. Now that the Google Ad campaign has finished the site is back [...]
sold two books today
September 26, 2010sold two books,woot woot.thatbrings thetotal numbre of books soldso far to 3!! amazing. i got a £75 Google Advoucher in a magazine and used that.Had to put in £5 of my own. Its basically gone now and after over 1200 hits i sold two books to the same person worth £5.50 before £2.84 postage. Its [...]
New Search Feature
September 17, 2010Added a new search feature to the site. It uses a very simple LIKE statment in mySQL but it should help people find things, especially as the site gets bigger.
Hit Two Libraries Today
went to two libraries and got 47 books and 43 books totalling 90 books which when you put that together with the USA haul makes 190 new books to add, over the next few months. phew..
http://www.greenmetropolis.com
September 14, 2010http://www.greenmetropolis.com they do cheap books. wow. everyone seems to do really cheap books.
New Bunch Of Books
September 4, 2010Just got 100 new crappy Old Books from America. Got to get them back of course. Interestingly I brought 12 in one go, and then a week later a box with 88 books in it, a totally random amount, but when you add them up its exactly 100 books. Some interesting stuff. Not that anyone [...]
www.usedromancebooks.co.uk
March 24, 2010lol i always like to keep up to speed on the competition. Oxfam seemed the closest, but this site is phenominal http://www.usedromancebooks.co.uk The mind boggles at the margins there.
New Shelving
March 20, 2010With with the excitment of selling my first book I have gone to B&Q and brought some wood to make a book case as currently all the books are in crates and sort of hard to find so hopefully the book case will make it easier to turn stock around.
Rubber Stamp
It was something I meant to do ages ago and thats buy a rubber stamp to stamp sold books with and now I made a sale i’ve decided to buy it. It says SOLD BY www.crappyoldbooks.co.uk It cost £30!!!! So obviously its not profitable yet.
First Sale – Woot Woot!!
Sold my first book!!! York Notes Our Day Out Very exciting. Have to wait until Moday to post it. Already wrapped up in newspaper and brown paper. Just saying is all. Although technically its not the first as someone ordered 3 copies of the Ibis book which obviously you cant do because they are all [...]
Star Trek Books
March 19, 2010Got a whole bunch of Star Trek books today. I thought that that was quite a haul, probably about 20 or so. will certainly increase the Science Fiction section. Only problem is I have to sit here scanning them in which is easier said than done.
New Listing Format
March 13, 2010Redesigned the listing format so that instead of one book per line, the code shows all the books as thumbnails which means that you can see loads more books on a page. In fact you can see all the books in most categories on the one page. A much easier way to brows all the [...]
Trolly Full Of Books
As of writing there are now 236 books in stock. Whilst not really an entire shop, its certainly the equivelent of a crappy old trolly of books as left out on the street. I’ve spent alot of time browsing through crappy old book trollies, so I think thats a mile stone. In fact, many old [...]
Free Bookmarks
Whilst I have known this for a while, I have noted that quite a few of the books have used bookmarks in them, ie, a bit of scrap paper, a money off coupon, a business card etc. I would like to detail with the decription each time a book has something interesting, but im a [...]
New Image Popup Thing
March 8, 2010Added a few books today and modified the image popup thing so that it uses the lightbox java system. Its a bit snazzier. Still not convinced that people are aware that you can look at the cover in closer detail. Still not made any sales….. The site is getting tons of traffic from Google image [...]
American Books
January 30, 2010im on holiday in America at the moment and i went to the local library where they also sell carppy old books. I got about 20 new crappy old books. Including a book on how parachutes work, lol. These are fantastic collectors editions as they all have original ‘TAMPA – HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM stamped [...]
Crappy Online Book Store
December 17, 2009So far in nearly a month there have been no visiters at all, let alone customers. Hows that for crappy? Its just like a real world crappy book store that has no customers. All I need is some tumble weed and i’d be fully equipped. At least its allowing me to stock up on a [...]
Wrong ISBN Numbers
December 8, 2009Being new to the book scene im amazed at how many ISBN numbers are just plain wrong. Im using http://isbndb.com to look them up so maybe they have errors but even so, im pretty sure that some of the ISBN numbers on the backs of books are just wrong.
Just Discovered Cheap Books At The Library
December 2, 2009Wow, just discovered that I can get cheap books from the library for 10p +!!!! Brought 14 new Crappy Old Books for you to buy taking the total stock level to 22 books!!!!
Welcome To Crappy Old Books
November 24, 2009Crappy Old Books is a place where you can buy Crappy Old Books. Just like in a Crappy Old Book shop. The shop has only just started and so stock is limited, but over the years we aim to build up a huge stock of Crappy Old Books, all at really cheap prices. Forget modern [...]