Posted: 12/6/2004 6:47:25 PM EDT
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Is it better to make a bonfire out of them? CRC |
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its mostly a rip job. around here sometimes a buy a book used for 40 bucks, and they offer me 4 bucks for it. for 4 bucks i would rather keep it and have it be one more hard reference matierial i dont have to venture out for. sometimes if a class isnt being offfred they just refuse books i paid out the ass for. i have acually started buying books on a need-basis. doing this is saved myself from buying probly 6 books i never would have cracked. you might consider going online, sometimes its way cheaper than your shitty universirty book store. dont listen to the arfcom "college is useless" crowd, as they are bound to weigh in |
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SELL THEM TO OTHER STUDENTS. The book store buy back is the biggest rip-off I have ever seen. Lets see charge $100 for a book that is worth $80 Buy it back for $30 after three months Sell it again for $80 next quarter AND REPEAT. Thats one hell of a model. i wish i had thought of it. What you do is this. Average the price that the bookstore would pay you for the book with the price that they charge for a used book. Sell for the price that is right inbetween the two. That way you get more money and the guy you sell it to saves some money, everyone wins except for the bookstore jerks, and they deserve to lose. The very idea that you are thinking of burning your books tells me that Mommy and Daddy are paying the bills for you. When you learn to pay your own way maybe you won't think it's a good idea to burn several hundred dollars worth of perfectly good merchandise just because your lazy. |
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Lori (wife and ex-pastry chef) is back in school now. she had to get the Intro to Psy. and Intro. to History. They were 100 EACH!! This spring semester she found used books from another student. Half price. After she is done with them, they wil be for sale too. be well maxwell |
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Before Ebay and all of those other internet sites where you can buy and sell textbooks (which was when I went to college) you really couldn't so anything with them. One semester so many students tried to sell some of the entry level course books back that the university refused to take them back. You were stuck with them. Selling a $80.00 book back in PERFECT condition (becuase you never cracked it, it wasn't really needed) and getting maybe $30.00 for it sucked. It was legal organized crime. I learned to start selling my back before the semester was over and sharing someone else's book or borrowing it from the library at key times. Even the bookmobile guys that bought the books back for the off campus stores would not take some of mine; they just had too many of them. I still have some lying around somewhere, not to mention some made great targets. Oh yeah, and profs tended to change the book that was required for a class every two semesters so if you tried to sell it to a buddy taking the same class with the same prof you couldnt even do that. |
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If you work somewhere where you can use the photo copier then just go ahead and copy the books and put them into cheap three ring binders. The UNO bookstore (University of Nebraska Omaha) gave you three weeks from the time you bought it to bring a book back and get all your money back for it. This was in case you get into a class and decide to drop it or bought the wrong book for some other reason. I'm sure other places have similar policies. Anyway, If you photocopy a couple of chapters a day from each book, you can be done in a couple of weeks and then you have free textbooks. I used to work in a computer room on weekend nights when I was going to college. I would just use the ole' copier when it was slow. Presto.....free books. Anymore, so many workplaces have copiers because the cost of these things has gone down. Every place I have worked since college (1993 and up) has had copiers that are easily accessible and people always make personal copies. It's one of those corporate culture things. If everyone else is doing it in the workplace, then you probably can, too. The University book store was notorious for giving back...say forty cents on a twenty dollar book (because they decided they didn't need it next year). The price they charge for these textbooks justifies the copying you do, trust me. |