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.

[lagos]

My story gets even better...
So I spoke with the store manager and he told me he would let me return the more expensive used book and buy the cheaper new one I had ordered, when that book comes in. Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I get home, I get a call that my book did come in.
So I go back to the store, talk to the managager and return the more expensive used book. They hand me the cheaper brand new book, and I head to the register... well wouldn't you know it, the same $83 that I had just bought and paid for last week, is now $95! $12 dollars more for the same book for no reason at all! So I had to go back to the manager (at this point wanting to kill everyone who works there) and he just says... oh...it went up. I flipped out and they ended up giving me the 12$ difference back, but that was it... no apology or anything.