Textbooks are a scam.

[bizflawless 5,000+ posts]

hell yea they are, there was this one book i didnt buy for a class and half way thru the teacher argued w/ me that if i didnt buy one she was going to kick me out...but we never used the **** thing! i said no, met this chic that had the same class and she let me borrow her book...........but yea my gf bought like 3 books that she never even used and what sucked is that it was the kind they wouldnt let u return

 

[dru 10+ year member]

yea textbooks are a scam..

this spring i paid around 800 for books.. havent returned them yet tho

im still contemplating sellin them on half.com or wherever

oh yea the books are below

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

Wait 600 for all 9 for both quarters? Lucky bum...

I payed 520 las quarter, USED for three big books and a couple lab notebooks and such....

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

Paid $120 for a used zoo book that I never even used..Got like $40 back for it..

Spent about $420 on books this last semester and got $90 back. Stuck with 5 books I couldn't take back.

 

[Ku-sama]

jeeze, now we know why Faulkton is such a jackass

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

I spent at LEAST $500 a semester on books, and the most I ever got back was $100.

My last semester I spent $700, and only got $50 back. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif To add insult to injury, I had to buy an entrepreneurship book brand new for $120, I used it twice, and then they didn't take it back. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

The worst is when they come out with "new editions" in which they may reword one sentance or change some pictures, then they won't take the "old" editions back.

I got mega pwnt pretty much every semester, but I was always too lazy to buy or sell them online.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

the campus book store got me good. i payed 150 for a textbook and work book (both shrink wrapped together). i bought them after the deadline for returning them, and then found out the class had been canceled due to something or other.

I still had the receipt, but they would not refund me... because i came back to return them after the deadline. I BOUGHT THEM AFTER THE DEADLINE!!! WAS I SUPPOSED TO GO BACK IN TIME!?

They were in perfect condition, hadn't even removed the shrink wrap... i got boned because a class got canceled. i think they gave me 25 dollars for something they put back on the shelves and sold as new i'm sure.

It's ridiculous how they **** students. On top of that i couldn't get financial aid because my parents make too much money... even though i'm paying for everything myself.

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

On top of that i couldn't get financial aid because my parents make too much money... even though i'm paying for everything myself.

now that sucks

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

I bought 2 books from half.com and one from the campus store...spent like $200. Got $37 for one of them, the other 2 they wouldn't take back.

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

Another thing that pisses me off..

My school had a customized version of three books needed for my English Comp II class. Each book just came out this semester.Costed a total of $100. Not one of the three book stores would take them back because "We don't take back customized versions."

What kind of bull is that? I guess they are going to make all the students next semester buy the same books again new like we had to.

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

i probably spent 4+ grand in books in school...and i probably got back $800-$1,000 IF that on trade ins in just about a 5 year period...

they are too costly...