School Books Options

[lagos]

How can they get away ripping people off so badly on college text books? Its disgusting. A normal book that you can get in a book store for 20bucks will be sold in the college book store for at least 60$. My sister just got done buying a book for her typing class... $130 for a 20 page book that has nothing but typing exercises in it!

Today however was the icing on the cake. Last week I went to buy a physics book, that comes bundled with a lab kit that I need for the lab class. They were all sold out, so I had to special order one. A whole week goes buy and they still didn't get the book back in stock. I noticed that they had one copy of the book used...so I thought, great, I'll cancel my order and just buy the used book and a lab kit instead of waiting on the bundle I ordered. So, I get to the register, they refund the $83 I paid for the special order, and ring me up for the used book and lab kit.... this time.... its $109 because I didn't buy the books bundled! WTF!!! They are charging me more money for a used book! God damn crooks.

[azian_advanced]

here, there is a program where the book store is willing to buy your book back for half the cost that they sell it for..

so what i do is i buy my book online (i get mine from abebooks.com where books are usually 25%-50% off what they sell here) . i just make sure you get the same book type (ie. soft cover or hard cover) that they sell at your book store, after the course is finished, i sell it back to the book store and pay only a fraction of the book.