Straight-A Student Selling for Tuition

the financial crisis hit between my junior and senior year at mills college. this meant the credit markets had frozen up and i could no longer get the student loans that i needed to finish my degree. so i started selling my book collection to make money. by researching and then drastically undercutting the price of any competitor who listed the same titles i was able to move my inventory fast. then i banked 60% of the $3.99 shipping credit that amazon paid sellers by wrapping the books in cheap paper and sending them media mail which only cost $1.50. i made a little less than $700 in a few weeks. sometimes now i wonder what would have happened if i continued. those are really good numbers but this wasn’t something i did because i wanted to be an entrepreneur. it was a solution to a problem i had. at the time i didn’t even think of it as entrepreneurship.