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.

[samir0189]

Yup, it is a ripoff, but there are ways around it.

Order books from amazon.com, most the time they have it and its much cheaper new, and people also sell used ones on there. I just got my $215 calculus book for $100. It wasn't in the greatest of condition, ill admit, but its readable.

You can also look for the "international" versions of books, once its not for math cause of the whole metric system being used by everyone else, but for all other subjects, its paperback and MUCH cheaper. The only downside is the waiting time for shipping..