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 Jan 27, 2009 - 1:23 PM
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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. -------------------- 15PSI - 30MPG - Megasquirt Tuned
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Jan 28, 2009 - 3:16 PM
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You're paying (tens of) thousands of dollars for a piece of paper that says you graduated. Is that any more of a bargain? So these $100-200 dollar books look cheap in comparison.
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lagos School Books Jan 27, 2009 - 1:23 PM
Sinyk When I went to college, we were actually able to p... Jan 27, 2009 - 1:28 PM azian_advanced here, there is a program where the book store is w... Jan 27, 2009 - 2:03 PM samir0189 Yup, it is a ripoff, but there are ways around it.... Jan 27, 2009 - 2:10 PM lagos My story gets even better...
So I spoke with the s... Jan 27, 2009 - 3:00 PM manphibian Yep, it's not fair. I did a design degree and... Jan 27, 2009 - 3:08 PM samir0189 Is that a school bookstore? Like the on-campus one... Jan 27, 2009 - 3:27 PM lagos Yeah its on campus, and also the only place to buy... Jan 27, 2009 - 3:43 PM MacgibaS2 i know how you feel.. trust me. i'm pre-med an... Jan 27, 2009 - 3:55 PM Culpable04 Art, is like that at every single college.
last s... Jan 27, 2009 - 3:59 PM Supersprynt Yeah you get raped.
The reason they are so expens... Jan 27, 2009 - 4:56 PM forkee been there done that. then when u go back after th... Jan 27, 2009 - 5:22 PM 96bluevert I've found that buybacks are few and far betwe... Jan 27, 2009 - 7:54 PM chucho I spent 155 for a "book" that had no bin... Jan 27, 2009 - 8:07 PM NgoFcukinWay <---works at a school bookstore.
A dude came i... Jan 28, 2009 - 12:13 AM
chucho QUOTE (NgoFcukinWay @ Jan 27, 2009 - 11... Jan 28, 2009 - 12:30 AM gt_driFFter QUOTE Math bugs me though when it comes to new edi... Jan 28, 2009 - 12:24 AM NgoFcukinWay I hear ya on that. At my school, they offer a book... Jan 28, 2009 - 1:43 AM Random_Stranger Ay Art! I feel your pain man. Shoot, on amaz... Jan 28, 2009 - 1:47 AM lagos QUOTE (NgoFcukinWay @ Jan 28, 2009 - 1... Jan 28, 2009 - 8:38 AM forkee QUOTE (lagos @ Jan 28, 2009 - 6:38 A... Jan 28, 2009 - 4:17 PM jcaron9gt4 It's rediculous. My friends and I buy one boo... Jan 28, 2009 - 11:11 AM Jared95 Just sold back a 60$ book for a whopping 4 do... Jan 28, 2009 - 2:32 PM jcaron9gt4 QUOTE (CAMAricer @ Jan 28, 2009 - 3... Jan 28, 2009 - 3:43 PM CAMAricer Umm...an education? Not really, you're going ... Jan 29, 2009 - 1:41 AM Sinyk Think of the piece of paper as... the receipt! Jan 28, 2009 - 3:57 PM Cutrara I'm taking 18cr this semester... my books cost... Feb 2, 2009 - 10:15 AM lagos 18 credits.... good lord !
You must have a bu... Feb 2, 2009 - 11:21 AM dustin15brown QUOTE (lagos @ Feb 2, 2009 - 11:21 A... Feb 4, 2009 - 11:11 AM dustin15brown I usually spend close to a grand a semester for bo... Feb 2, 2009 - 4:20 PM 95CelicaST All of my books were included in tuition, so I nev... Feb 2, 2009 - 7:04 PM creis I sware some of the dumbest people I've meet w... Feb 2, 2009 - 10:37 PM CAMAricer QUOTE (creis @ Feb 2, 2009 - 10:37 P... Feb 3, 2009 - 1:28 AM beastman Ive spent upwards of $500 a semester on books... Feb 3, 2009 - 2:06 AM lagos QUOTE (CAMAricer @ Feb 3, 2009 - 1:2... Feb 4, 2009 - 5:42 PM Sinyk *sniffle* I work at a college. Where's the lov... Feb 4, 2009 - 6:35 PM |
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