Buying Guide CD Instructions
TCTC Sales Reps
Selling Your Overstock
We honor all current competitive buying guide prices. We do ask, however, that the following criteria be utilized when using a buying guide other than Tichenor College Textbook Company's:
- Use only one competitor's guide per shipment. Please do not combine guides for various titles with your shipment.
- Enclose a packing slip or inventory list with prices in each shipment stating the guide used and its effective date.
- We accept up to 25 copies of any one title. Please call, fax, or email to our Buying Guide Department if you have quantities of titles exceeding 25 in number.
- Please call for approval on all NEP and "Free" copies you wish to sell so that we can offer the best price.
When using the Tichenor College Textbook buying guide:
Wholesale prices indicated are guaranteed and in effect on the date of the current buying guide being used. New buying guides with updated information will be made eight times a year. Guides are available in a hard copy or CD format. Please call if you would like to receive our buying guide.
Shipping & Commission Information:
- Please use United Parcel Service for all shipments less than 200 pounds. Tichenor College Textbook Company will reimburse any UPS charges. All other shipments are to be sent motor freight COLLECT:
- Write "Books N. 01-VNX 1.65 each" on the face of the bill-of-lading.
- Use a carrier that can ship directly to us without transferring to a second carrier:
- Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, or Wisconsin: UPS Freight only.
- We suggest that all other shipments from all other states use Old Dominion, or Yellow/Roadway Transportation.
- Our shipping address:
Tichenor College Textbook Company
5005 North State Road 37 Business
Bloomington, Indiana 47404-1626- A 20% commission will be applied to the total shipment.
- All books with a $0.00 guide price or books not in the guide can be written down and faxed to the Buying Guide Department for a quote.
NOTE:
With any shipment, we request that all books be in good, saleable condition. Books that are water damaged, missing pages, overly highlighted, or have torn covers/contents will be discounted. Any book we deem to be unsaleable will be trashed or shipped back to you at your expense. Also, lab manuals, study guides, and workbooks that have over five pages of written notes will not be accepted. Damaged CDs that accompany a textbook are unacceptable. All law books must be clean with no highlights or crib notes. Any book with "FREE COPY" printed on inside pages will be purchased at half the current guide price.
If you have any questions, please contact the Buying Guide Department:
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Toll-free fax: 1-800-331-7690
Email: tichenor@tctcbook.com
Buying Guide on CD Instructions
To Install Program:
Insert CD into your computer.
Go to Start and click on "run". The Open file window of your CD driver will read SETUP.EXE - Click O.K.
The program will initiate and you need to Click on all the "Next" buttons to get through the installing cycle and then click "Finish" at the end. Leave the CD in your computer.
The Buying Guide will open up and it will ask for name info. Type this in and click O.K. An error message will then appear asking you to load the guide. At this point you need to click on the "Load Guide" button at the bottom of the Buying Guide screen.
The guide program is now installed as well as the TCTC Buying Guide info. All operations of the guide are the same as in the past. Plus, if you type in a 10 digit ISBN the guide will automatically convert the number to 13 digits for you.
For all future Buying Guides you receive from us, all you'll have to do is open the guide program and click on the "Load Guide" button to get the current data. You will not have to click on the SETUP.EXE again.
Once the Guide is loaded the program opens up to the Inquiry page and defaults to the lowest ISBN number in our Guide. However, the flashing cursor is active in the inquiry field for you to scan or enter an ISBN, or enter the author/title of the book you are selling.
Note: When entering the Author/Title, please type the first 4 letters of the author and the first 3 letters of the title in order to locate a book in our Guide. Never type the word "The" if it is the first word in the title of a book. For example, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton should be entered as: wharage.
When the above information is entered, the book will be highlighted on the Inquiry screen displaying the ISBN, author, title, edition, status (NEP, OE, OP), activity (1-9), list price, and Guide (or selling) price.
If you wish to sell the selected book to TCTC, press enter (or click the Buy button). This will bring up the Buy screen (the cursor defaults to the quantity box) where you can enter the quantity you wish to sell. Click OK to automatically place the book in a file. You will then be returned to the Inquiry screen.
Enter the next book as above. Again, when highlighted, hit enter (or click the Buy button) and enter the quantity you are selling, click OK.
Repeat these steps for each title you wish to sell to TCTC.
Note: the guide defaults to selling Used books. If you have a new book to sell, click on the Toggle U/N button at the bottom of the Buy screen, enter the quantity and hit enter (or click the Buy button).
Checking Your List of Books
To view the books you are selling, click on the List button located on the Inquiry screen. To view the dollar amount and quantity you are selling to TCTC, click on the Calculate button on the List Screen.
Print or Transfer to Disk the Books Sold to TCTC
When you have completed selling books, you may either print the list by clicking on the Print button, or you may copy it to a disk by clicking on the Copy to Disk button, both of which are located on the List screen. If printing the list of books, a print out of each book sold will be listed alphabetically by author and title. The final tabulation will also be printed at the bottom displaying the total number of books, the dollar amount, the commission amount @ 20%, and the Grand Total.
Other Features
If you want to delete a book from your list, click on the List button on the Inquiry Screen. Highlight the book to be deleted. Then click the minus button (-) located on the upper right of the List screen. The book will be deleted, and the dollar amount and quantity will adjusted accordingly.
If you do not know the author or title, you can still locate the book by clicking on one of the buttons at the bottom of the Inquiry screen. Enter the requested information and click OK. The guide will search for the information you have requested and display any related titles.
To find more publishing information on a title, you may click on the Zoom In button at the bottom of the Inquiry screen. If you wish to sell the book, click the Buy button, enter the quantity, and click OK.
If, after you have printed a list of books for shipment to TCTC, you want to create another shipment you must clear the first line: 1) Open the Guide program; 2) Click the List button; 3)Click the Empty List button. You will then be prompted to confirm that you wish to delete this list. Click Yes. The first list will be cleared from the screen, and a new list will be ready to be created. Remember, to clear your list of books on the List screen with each new buy and/or monthly update since your previous list will be retained in the list file until removed.
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| Al Chandler Select Accounts voice mail ext.231 | |
| Paul Cummings CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT voice mail ext.248 | |
| Corrie Thibodeaux TX, OK voice mail ext.247 | |
| David Trinka IN (North), IA, IL, MI, MN, WI, ND, MO voice mail ext.226 | |
| Debbie Akins GA, FL, AL, SC voice mail ext.246 | |
| Della Greene IN (South), LA, NC, KY, TN voice mail ext.245 | |
| Ken Day AZ, CO, NM, UT, MT, SD, WY, ID, OR, WA voice mail ext.257 | |
| Sylvia McIntosh OH, PA, MD, WV, VA, Washington, DC, Buffalo, NY voice mail ext.263 | |
| George Coon CA, NV voice mail ext.249 | |
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