Student Book Stores Scam Students

**Bunni** · 05-13-10, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Consultant

The textbook market is a microcosm of the healt care industry...most students (patients) are not spending their personal money...they're spending grant funds, financial aid money, their parents money, etc. (Insurance company money, medicare money).

touche, wish my financial aid would pay for books Q_Q, ill need to try applying for it again... :3

**DJ Ms. White** · 05-13-10, 08:48 AM

See if there are any scholarships for people with ADD. I know there's one for schizo.

**Keiron** · 05-13-10, 09:05 AM

Get use to it Bunni. They have their rules because they are out to make a profit too. It sucks though and everyone hates it.

For example, one of my textbooks was $180, brand new because they just switched to the damn book (and even online it was hard to fine used or for less). Fine I pay for it and think at least I'll get a decent amount back at the end of the year. Nope. Even though they just switched to that damn book, they switched the book AGAIN to something different so they wouldn't take it back at all. I tried taking it to L&M Bookstore and another locale store that sells textbooks and the most they said they could give for that book was like $10 because it wasn't being used anymore.

I'm not even sure I can sell it on Amazon at this poin because of the newer additions of the book coming out.

Starting next year though my university is going to be giving students the option to rent their textbooks, supposedly for half the cost.

**enf** · 05-13-10, 05:49 PM

www.half.com

I wasted 5 semesters selling books back before I found out about this site. Not sure how it is now that ebay has their hands in the pot, but I bought/sold from that site for the rest of the college semesters and was saving at least 15% on books, while getting back 30% more when selling them.

**BigHub** · 05-14-10, 01:07 PM

Hahahha poor Bun.

I usually get great buy back prices. For instance, I sold back a book to the bookstore which I paid $165 for, and they gave me $100. Not bad at all.

The only time we usually have problems, is when they do not use that book edition any more.. then they will only offer you a $1 for it. That's when I say "fuck you", turn around and sell it online.

**asianator365** · 05-14-10, 06:58 PM

If they won't pay me enough for the books and I can't get more for them, I burn some of them. $2 for a $40 book? No thanks...I'll burn it and get more than $2 worth of entertainment.

**a weakling spaz** · 05-14-10, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by tr_enf

www.half.com

I wasted 5 semesters selling books back before I found out about this site. Not sure how it is now that ebay has their hands in the pot, but I bought/sold from that site for the rest of the college semesters and was saving at least 15% on books, while getting back 30% more when selling them.

Seconding this. I made out pretty well using that site too.

**enf** · 05-15-10, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by BigHub

The only time we usually have problems, is when they do not use that book edition any more.. then they will only offer you a $1 for it. That's when I say "fuck you", turn around and sell it online.

Or burn it. We had some pretty good fires going at the end of each semester. The worst is that college professors choose which books you will buy and you just know that most of them have side deals going with these publishers/authors to use a different edition every semester/year just so students have to buy new. I had this one pompous professor that made us buy his unfinished book (I shit you not, there were chapters and sections missing) AND a third party text book and would make sure to put questions in his tests that only came from his unfinished work.