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Ridham

Building my dream, o... • 1d

💡Idea: Affordable Textbook Marketplace with Buyback Guarantee for Students 📚 Textbooks are a huge expense for students, often costing thousands of rupees each semester. What if you could buy second-hand textbooks at cheaper rates than their original price—paying ₹600 instead of ₹1,000—and still have the option to sell them back for cashback? This idea is designed to make learning affordable while reducing waste. Students can save big upfront and recover even more by returning their books within 6 months or more, making it a win-win for your wallet and the environment. Here’s how it works: I’ll provide second-hand books at discounted rates, and if you return them within 12 months, you’ll get cashback based on the return timeline—60% in 6 Months (₹360), decreasing to 40% by Month 9 (₹240) and to 30% beyond 12 months (₹180). This ensures that textbooks stay in circulation, helping students save money while promoting sustainability. Benefits: 1) Affordable Second-Hand Books 📚🧠 2) Buyback Guarantee with Cashback 💰💸 3) Quality Assurance ✅🤖 4) Convenient Delivery Options 🚚📦 Note: This is just an idea in its early stages, not a complete product yet. All kinds of suggestions and improvements are warmly welcomed—please don’t judge it too quickly! I genuinely believe this has the potential to become a great business with the right input and support. 🧠

Very good & helpful idea

Maybe a good idea

Not helpful & a bad idea

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Hari kiran

Insight guru • 1d

The longevity of edition can be an issue for the academical text books and also the condition of the book. Also, you may take a text book back and pass it on, till the textbook is originally to read. I assume that if there's a physical damage, cask back wouldn't be credited, but at a larger scale checking the returned books for damage isn't going to be an easy task. lastly, things are different for a model. But for academic books, students love to do the marketing while study to retain or revise the major concepts. So, not able to highlight or Mark on pages would be a big set back. As lucrative as this idea looks, there's are multiple problems that can creep up once the execution is started.

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