College bookstores screw you over

**Keiron** · 12-11-09, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by howitzer88

Sell the C++ book to some student taking it next semester, they'll be thankful to buy it for less than what it would cost them from the bookstore, and you might as well just keep your $200 one and use it to smack a new pledge guy or something.

The thing is, the class is only offered in the Fall and the Programming II class is in the Spring, but supposedly we are using a different book. Which is really the problem/reason I suppose that they aren't taking the book back. :3

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

Head over to SAC tomorrow if you can and check out the "Cash for Books" booths they have in the quad, don't know if they are good or not, but worth a shot. There are 2 or 3 other book stores down there you could try as well that *might* be better (one is an L&M). If you want to check out the booths you better head there tomorrow (Friday) because Friday is the last day of exams for SAC.

I went to the L&M by SAC and that was the one that said they'd only be able to give me $18 for them.

Not sure if they'd take the books back though there. Might be worth a shot though.

**darthxaos** · 12-11-09, 02:19 PM

I remember picking up a couple of $100 textbooks for $30 each online, they were the same text but they were paperback, not in color, and said "For sale in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka only" on the cover. They were in English though so they worked. Couldn't sell them back to the bookstore though.

**Red_Lizard2** · 12-11-09, 05:21 PM

want bad, couldn't sell my books back today because i didn't have a schedule and like the server to apparently do about anything but homework and view the website, has been done since Thursday :3. 2 and half more days til i can rid of this shit (and start shopping for Christmas)

**reject_wolf** · 12-11-09, 05:29 PM

I always go into the class that the book I wanna sell on the first class of the semester, and ask if anyone wants to buy a good condition book for half off. With buying and selling used books, I hope to break even. But it'll get harder as my classes get less and less general.

**ALPINESTAR** · 12-12-09, 01:25 PM

everyone gets fucked. I only buy the books I HAVE to have now. Even then, I got 22 bucks for the only one I bought this semester that was 150+..

They always say, oh they aren't using that book next year and shit. FUCK BOOKSTORES! FUCKIN COCKSUCJKSINGKSN FMOFUCKKA