Oh.......textbooks.
This is something I really, really, really have a bone to pick with.
On my previous post I talked about a video called A Vision of Students Today
In this video one of the signs held up by the students says
"I pay hundreds of dollars for textbooks I never open"
1) WHY DON'T YOU OPEN YOUR TEXTBOOKS?
2) WHY DO YOU PAY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS?
During my freshman year of college I spent $600 dollars on textbooks
I never let that happen again.
These days I usually pay $100 dollars per semester
This magic trick is all due to a site called half.com.
How to pay less than $100 dollars per semester on Textbooks
1) NEVER GO TO THE BOOKSTORE
- I really mean it. They are there to rip you off and the money they pay you for your used books is a joke
2) BUY YOUR BOOKS USED
- Go to Half.com or one of it's many look-a-likes
3) BUY YOUR BOOKS OUTDATED
- Guess what, you can pay 10% or less of the sticker price if you buy outdated books. Most of the time they just get new pictures and some up to date information that you already knew anyway.
4) SELL YOUR BOOKS TO OTHER PEOPLE
- First check your friends and then branch outwards to Half.com and it's look-a-likes
- Sell them at below the lowest price or they will never leave your bookshelf
I think one of the problems with half.com and sites like it is that once you add the cost of shipping for each individual book, you might as well just pay the full price (like a lot if the books in our Adolescent Lit. class for example).
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you. Shipping is about 5 bucks. Pretty much all books on the site are actually half the sticker price of the book. Unless your book has a 10 dollar sticker price....you save money.
ReplyDeleteWhy did you buy books for our ad lit class? They are all at the either the pius or the public library right down the street.