View Full Version : Just got robbed today!!!
HighTechRedneck
08-26-2008, 16:45
By my MF-ing college bookstore. :wow: :wow: A book that was a "special edition" for my college was $200 new.... FOR A PAPERBACK......
This book does not grant me a larger member, inner peace, omniscience, any of the secrets of life, and is a PAPERBACK.... WTF am I paying $200 for?? :steamed: :steamed: :steamed:
And for another observation, the Central FL sun is HOT right now!
FastDraw McGraw
08-26-2008, 16:49
By my MF-ing college bookstore. :wow: :wow: A book that was a "special edition" for my college was $200 new.... FOR A PAPERBACK......
This book does not grant me a larger member, inner peace, omniscience, any of the secrets of life, and is a PAPERBACK.... WTF am I paying $200 for?? :steamed: :steamed: :steamed:
And for another observation, the Central FL sun is HOT right now!
College bookstores rip off lots of folks.....
its worse when your instructor has you buy a text "book" that they wrote... and it turns out to be a cheap thing held together by a plastic binder
ocjackel
08-26-2008, 16:51
That generally happens with legal monopolies.
Crusher47
08-26-2008, 16:51
Yup....just spent $175 for my wife's Chemistry book.....there better be some good spells in there....
hvnit2gd
08-26-2008, 16:51
On a similar note, I had my proffesor tell us not to purchase the book for her class because the bookstore charges to much and they will not buy the book back. Stand up proff in my opinion. She teaches from handout, lectures, and research assignments.
S.O.Interceptor
08-26-2008, 16:51
If you're on GlockTalk then you have the ability to buy all sorts of cheap books online. My wife made that mistake her first semester. Now she buys and sells everything online. She'll never buy anything from a college bookstore again.
franklin
08-26-2008, 16:54
My first quarter in college my Civil Engineering book cost 1.5x my ENTIRE tuition for the quarter. That was in 1977. Not much has changed in terms of book price.
Next time, check out http://www.bigwords.com/ first
I always bought used when possible, but it sucked when they got new editions that could only be bought new.
One that sticks out in my mind was a geography text book (hard cover, about 1/2" thick) that cost in excess of $100. The kicker was that the Geog. Dept. decided they didn't like it, so they weren't going to use it the next semester. I got $5 for it at the buy-back at the end of the semester. Our professor was genuinely sorry about it, and explained that the use and discontinue of use was not up to him. It still pissed us all off.
Easterbrook
08-26-2008, 16:55
If you're on GlockTalk then you have the ability to buy all sorts of cheap books online. My wife made that mistake her first semester. Now she buys and sells everything online. She'll never buy anything from a college bookstore again.
Half.com is what I use when I have the foresight to order things ahead of time.
Beware Owner
08-26-2008, 16:56
Did you get one of the "previously marked" books?
My 16 year-old son is taking a class in HS and he has a book to buy that will cost us $80. Total rip-off and it's a paperback as well.
Easterbrook
08-26-2008, 16:59
My 16 year-old son is taking a class in HS and he has a book to buy that will cost us $80. Total rip-off and it's a paperback as well.
Try half.com or another online source.
Try half.com or another online source.
I'll check it out. Thanks.
HighTechRedneck
08-26-2008, 17:03
If you're on GlockTalk then you have the ability to buy all sorts of cheap books online. My wife made that mistake her first semester. Now she buys and sells everything online. She'll never buy anything from a college bookstore again.
unfortunately this 'special edition' wasn't available online. It specifically says 'special edition for UCF' on it and I couldn't find the ISBN online anywhere for sale. This is my second degree so I am fully aware of buying online. This book cost almost 3x the total cost of my other three books for the semester.
This price came as no surprise... I just felt the need to rant a little and GNG seemed appropriate.
This price came as no surprise... I just felt the need to rant a little and GNG seemed appropriate.
don't even get me started... sometimes the books can cost more than your tuition for the semester... especially the basics (history, chemistry, biology, etc. you know.. the courses everyone HAS to take)
Zombie Steve
08-26-2008, 17:21
I'm in the wrong racket. I should sell college books. I remember at the beginning of the semester, they wouldn't have any used books, so you'd have to buy it new. At the end of the course, they went with the updated version and wouldn't buy them back. I shot more than a couple. :steamed:
Last semester my daughter saved about 1/3 of her book cost, but two classes worth shipped late from the sellers. This semester she bought from the B&N bookstore on campus and the total bill was $604. IMHO, there needs to be an anti-trust/price fixing investigation of college bookstores and and colleges, these people are way too cozy and seem to have things pretty well organized to keep out competition.
I am in nursing school and the books are ridiculously expensive. Last semester I saved over 600 dollars by buying my books online. I found this website that shows you the price of books from all the different online bookstores, it is worth checking out.
http://www.directtextbook.com/
its worse when your instructor has you buy a text "book" that they wrote... and it turns out to be a cheap thing held together by a plastic binder
man I hate that crap!:steamed:
Next time, check out http://www.bigwords.com/ first
Exactly. I just finished selling my last textbook from last semester on half.com (Ebay ugh). I paid $32 for it and got $25 plus shipping when I sold it.
Another good thing is that most of my aviation classes used FAA publications for text books... all were between $10-20. That was nice.
Also, I kept all of those as they were very useful as a flight instructor.
Batesmotel
08-26-2008, 17:27
I had a writing class that had a required book of poetry at $40.00 that was built into the class as lab/book fees so we could not return it and as no other teacher used it we could not sell it back. When they were delivered we found that it was written by the instructor and available at a local book store for $15.95. The dean of the english dept fired her over this and several other issues that year. Womans studies hired her and she did it again.
Try this website. http://www.chegg.com/
I work in an institution of higher learning... The most complaints I hear about daily are bookstore prices. I know the manager of ours and she will swear they make no more than 5% profit a year, which I find hard to believe. Someone is making more than 5%, might not be the bookstore but somewhere along the line someone's bank account is racking up.
oneshortofpar
08-26-2008, 18:18
amazon.com, and buy it from a used seller. I started doing this my junior year and what I paid for books was laughable.
Yeah I am gonna go get robbed tommorrow.. Criminal Law book should cook my SKS savings for a while...
Half.com. I paid 136$ shipped for textbooks for Entomology, Aquatic Ecology, and Statistics. I price them at the book store, 300$ there.
<---is expecting a phone call from my daughter at any moment requesting "mom and dad financial assistance" to help pay for books!
Tuition is already covered but it's her books that break the bank!
(We paid her tuition when she was two years old!)
She goes through Amazon.com or any other resource she can find, because they are ALL cheaper than her college bookstore.
It's ridiculous!
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