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[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

x2, here you get hardly anything back for books.

Now personally, I never sell books back. I figure if I plan on actually doing something in my field of study, it may be helpful down the line to have the references. Plus, if I'm going to get 50 bucks back on a $500 investment, it just doesn't seem worth it....it wouldn't even buy one of the new books I need.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif People act like it's such a terrible thing to have books. Oh my god, ink and paper, the horror!!!

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif People act like it's such a terrible thing to have books. Oh my god, ink and paper, the horror!!!

Most of my management (my major) classes either 1)don't use textbooks or 2)the textbooks **** ***.

I have kept a few books that i thought were fairly interesting though, like business law.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

The only books I've sold back are the bullshit ones I used to fulfill the retarded social sciences requirements (Soc and Psych). It's all tree-hugging, save-the-whales hippie nonsense. I've kept everything else.

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

I only sell books back to the school when I can't get a decent return online. I bought some philosophy books for this class I took last semester, selling them online would maybe have netted me an extra $5-$10 at most. It wouldn't be worth the time and effort to list them, package them, and then ship them. Another time I bought a book for $15 (used) for a summer course and sold it back to the school for $13.50. However, the majority of the time, 30% is a great return if they even will buy them back for you.

The whole textbook publishing business is a racket. Usually either the professor for the class or a member of the faculty makes you buy a book they are getting royalties off of. Then they purposely come out with a new edition every few years that is altered ever so slightly to justify making the entire class have to buy a new book. Remember, the publisher only makes money on selling brand new books and not used ones. Now, some schools are even publishing in house which makes it impossible to buy online or anywhere outside of the college/university.

The easiest solution to avoid all this is to not buy from the campus bookstore but from private sellers locally or online. Second, buy the international edition if you can since it is basically the same as the regular hardcover textbook with a softcover and cheaper paper. Third, buy previous editions and just copy the problem sets from the new edition. There is no reason to buy new from the campus bookstore unless someone else is paying it for it i.e. a book scholarship.

 

[Range Rover 10+ year member]

This Spring books are going to run me $1400

.. and I got like 300 for my Fall buy backs..

which is a free 300 since I had my old man pay for them in the first place..

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[NeverEnuffBass 10+ year member]

Most of the books I had they wouldn't buy back because they were using new editions for the next semester.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Seems like a good deal. This is where i bought my 8454.

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

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[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

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