BookLal – Best App to Buy or Sell Used Books

Books are always our cozy corner on any day of the year, right. For thousands of years, we have been briefing the benefits of reading books. In this article, we would be making selling and buying used books very simple through the BookLal app.

In the toughest phase, our world has recently faced and is also facing all the chaos and lockdown, many of us have realized that reading can elevate our personality. Hence, we inculcate reading habits, where students have to read textbooks.

Buying books is always an easy click-click and buying but obviously, most students can’t buy many books even though they love to read. Many platforms offer an exchange of old books at a minimum price, but today we came up with an app where you can just sell or buy used books from someone just like you directly without giving any commission.

How to select an online used book application?

Obviously, there are many platforms that can offer us to buy used books, for instance, OLX or eBay. The major problem faced by many users in many other social media applications is scams, various types of scams users have reported like harassment, phishing, money laundering, etc.

Why some known platforms are not safe?

We see anything listed on any website/application with a low price or which matches our requirements. We instantly contact the buyer, and the scam starts from there only.

• Sometimes we think it’s a genuine seller and we after making proper negotiation send them money but sometimes we don’t receive the product and sometimes the product does not even exist.
• In the case of buyers, the scams are designed in a way that can take money out of our account in two ways-
  • The buyer in most cases makes the payment by asking for confirmation of OTP and once the OTP is shared with them, they clear our bank account.
  • In very few cases buyers ask for QR codes for payment and use phishing to scam our money.
• In so many instances where buyers or sellers may fake the details, just to waste our time or harass us.

It’s not all bad but yes it’s very hard to find a genuine buyer or seller. In the BookLal app, you can see the actual location of anyone and the other person can not claim anything false. But here also you still need to be aware because online we have to keep eyes and brains open always in order to be safe.

Which is the Best App for Selling and Buying Used Books Online?

Now the question appears then which is the best site where we can buy and sell used or new books or books which we no longer require. The answer is ‘BookLal‘.

Yes, BookLal, it’s an Indian startup, it’s an initiative against ‘make in India’. The aim of BookLal is simply to remove the scam and make it as smooth as possible.

Why BookLal?

For starters, the hassle is the bare minimum.

Few features which make BookLal superior to any other online application-

• Inbuilt commutation system so that the buyer and seller do not need to fear any scam.
• Only basic details are required to open an account.
• Users living in any part of India can use this application.
• Listing and negotiating prices are very easy.

The only drawback so far is currently it’s not available on iOS.

Now, the question arises why BookLal, why not any other application? What benefit does it provide over a well-settled application?

The answer is simple, it is student-friendly. How? Aren’t other applications student-friendly too?

Yes, everything is student-friendly if we say so. But BookLal has a structure where there are minimal chances of fraud.

Students can sell their books from the previous semester at a reasonable price and earn a little extra besides pocket money.

Students can also buy novels or books which are the face of every social media at the possible lowest price.

BookLal is not confined to just students or buying and selling books, it can also help in selling and buying various old newspapers which our UPSC students always seek for. Old magazines, newspapers, general knowledge books and so much more can be bought and sold there. Next time before selling your old books or magazines to raddiwala, remember BookLal and it will help you earn a lot more than raddiwala can offer.

BookLal also saves the environment, now you must be wondering how in the name of god it can save the environment?

The answer lies in the use of this application, the more we use this application for buying and selling books for our requirements the more we will save our money. Using used books is a kind of recycling.

Instead of throwing it away or burning or leaving it idle, we will make a difference in those people’s lives who actually need those books and can’t afford to spend that money on a brand new book.

How to set up BookLal?

• Just typing BookLal in the play store or google will lead you to the application. It takes only 4.5 MB.
• Then it asks for a name and mobile number or email and within seconds we get inside the application.
• On the very first screen we see all books listed from all over the country. We can also choose the option nearby so it shows our nearby listed books.
• We can make a search for Books on the basis of:
  1. Book Name.
  2. Book Author.
  3. Publisher Name.
  4. City.
• There is also bifurcation of books which will save our time and we can find our book in our preferred genre.
• There is also a space where it shows all the books which we have listed for selling. And we can make edits or delete if required.
• For communication also a separate space is there where we can communicate with the respective buyer or seller and negotiate.

The application keeps updating and improving with time.

Everything we use has many alternatives. Only personal touch makes a particular thing grab attention.