Today's students, particularly Seniors and Grad Students, realize that often after the passing of a few years, older textbooks drop significantly in value - frequently bottoming out to the point of having very little or no value.
In many cases, books become almost worthless monetarily in the United States - having little or no value and likely not of enough value to support feasibility of any shipment costs.
Just because these books are not valuable monetarily in the United States does not mean they are not valuable to the minds of many students around the world. Many active and prospective students in English speaking regions have the opportunnity to educate themselves non-traditionally, while other students have the opportunnity to join state sponsored education programs - but their own Countries lack equipment, teachers, supplies and books. Palmetro™ has discovered a significant opportunity to assist these students.
Through our Peducereoxos™ Initiative, Palmetro Textbooks™ collaborates with existing support channels and gets your old 'otherwise worthless' textbooks to areas of the world that fit the qualifying criteria of needing the most higher education support. Countires such as Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan are among our top priorities.
Through your support of donated books, Palmetro takes care of shipping the books, sometimes via support of 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organizations.
Your old unwanted books can seriously change lives in some places. So, if you are considering donating books that just aren't worth enough to sell, your Palmetro Textbooks™ purchasing agent will offer to accept them as part of this program and we will label them as such upon receipt and handle all further logistics on our tab.
WORTHLESS BOOKS
Palmetro Textbooks™ has recognized low value books as a problem for several reasons.
Aside from the problematic financial impact this issue has on students, this issue can also adversely affect the used educational media brokerage business. When students go to sell books and are sometimes offered seemingly very low prices for books and supplies they originally paid very high for, the "messenger" being the book purchasing company sometimes initially appears to be the guilty party. Additionally, if students do not have a keen understanding of the used book marketplace, the low offer can effectually erode customer perception of the purchasing company. Some students may think the book buying companies are just out for high profits and therefore chose to make the offers very low.
Palmetro's business model embraces a low contribution margin/high volume approach. This means that usually if we offer any higher for any given item, we are brushing closely with actually losing money. Students should rest assured that Palmetro™ offers (net proceeds) yield student a highly competitive sum on each item.
