Yes, it's pretty outrageous.
If your school has e-mail aliases for classes (like so they can e-mail just your math class), try and find one for the upcoming students who are taking math, and try to sell it to them that way. That's a good way to find books too - try and buy them directly off of someone who has taken the class before. You'll get it cheaper and they'll get more $ from you than the bookstore.
Half.com is also a great place to buy/sell books.
My wife is doing her NP right now and just one of her books cost $350. The cost is insane.Does anyone else have a problem with the price of school books in college?
Totally. That's why you check other outlets, don't rely on the school store. Look online when you need to buy text books next time. You may find a much better deal. Highway robbery for 2nd hand goods!
no b/c i only went for one semester and didn't buy any books or go to class. I pretty much just got high and chased girls.
I wasn't very disciplined at 19.Does anyone else have a problem with the price of school books in college?
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Buy them used online.
I do and it makes me soooooo mad!!
They did that to me. $140 for a Comp Sci book, and all the book store would give me back was $10. So, I turned around and advertised the books on the bulletin boards around campus for 75% of what I paid for them. I sold every single book, because my price was cheaper than the bookstore's used price.
its ridiculous - now i wait at least 2 weeks after class starts to make sure i will open it up more than two times - and them buying it for 20% of what you paid, and selling it for 400% profit is total bull
someone needs to come up with a website that buys the books that WILL be used again, and buy them for something reasonable ~ like 75-80% of what we first pay for them
I have a problem too since my experience with online purchases has been horrendous. But when they sell the books back they don't charge the full price since it is used. Haven't you noticed used books are cheaper?
Also I try to think like an economist: once I spend the money at the beginning of the sem it is gone and no more but when I sell the book back it is free money since I'm not looking at the past.
Plus I shop the bookstore across the street instead of the school store.
REBELS!
I had a problem with it! I went to a private college so i usually ended up paying about 5 or 6 hundren on books. When you sell them back you may get 200 bucks tops. So me and my friends got one of those portable fire pits and put it out front of the bookstore, and burned all of our books. It was awesome how many people went to their dorms and got books to burn. That fire lasted a good eight hours lol After that year i just kept all of my books because i paid so much for them lol
Yeah. Like college students can afford to spend this kind of money! I buy mine on Amazon.com. The only thing is you have to make sure to order the right year and publication of the series. I've also bought and sold from other students - a lot of colleges have bulletin boards you can post on. You can sell it to them for less to save them some money and still get more back than you would for selling it back to the bookstore so they can rip someone else off.
Yes, I buy my textbooks online and sell them back online too (generally on amazon.com). This way the prices are cheaper to buy, and I get more of a return whenever I sell them back.
Yes, the textbooks are expensive. However, as cheap as I am, and as poor as I was, it never bothered me lots. Mainly, that's because I actually did all of the readings and the work and absorbed every word. By the time I'd get to the end of the course, I always felt that I had gotten my money's worth out of the book. I kept a lot of the ones that are useful for research material, and I still use them today. They were a better bargain than a lot of other things I've spent money on over the years.
Yeah, it is a scam, sort of like a monopoly. It is unfortunate to say that there isn't much you can do. Buy them on line if you can. They are usually a fraction of the price. You sometimes might not get your books until school as started but it really doesn't matter that early. Check Half.com or Amazon.
yeah, better to find a friend to buy books you don't want. I heard once that the production is limited on these books. They're said to be expensive because they do all that writing and such for a limited audience, you're never going to sell a million copies of a text book. The price is supposed to make up for that. Could just be an excuse.
I agree with you.
It's such a joke. They don't even try to sneak this one by us. It's a smack in the face. To me it's all about GREED. They do it to us because the books are REQUIRED to pass the class and they know it. Unfortunately, I don't know a way around it; legally anyway.
Me! me!
my college is one of the expensive college in my country
i went in here coz i thought the scholarship i got gonna cover all my expenses
who knows they dont give book allowance!
and the pocket money is way too low for a student like me
i have to pay $400 for text book for this sem
just this sem!!
and i bet i cant sell those book back anymore...
Yeah, It is really outsatanding.
For the spring semester I was taking Biology at a community college and the price for 2 lab books and the course textbooks was the same as the fees for the whole semester. I was taking 20 credit hours. I am transferring to a university in the fall and am just scared to find out how much books are there.
P.S. when looking to buy textbooks go online to e-bay and other sites online you will find really cheap books. I just bought a used book for $5 from ebay whereas it would have been $30 in the school book store. Also, There is a site called www.textbookx.com. sell your books there you will get most of what you paid back. I sell my books there all the time and it is worth it.
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