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I saved $200 by buying my textbooks online.

Shawn

Shawn

Lifer
It's definitely not as convenient as having the books the same day or being able to easily return them but for $200 less it just doesn't make sense to buy them locally.
 
I looked around, and surprisingly, my books would cost about the same used from the bookstore as they would online, if shipping is taken into account.

Where were you buying them from?
 
Originally posted by: MrPickins
I looked around, and surprisingly, my books would cost about the same used from the bookstore as they would online, if shipping is taken into account.

Where were you buying them from?
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half.com
 
This quarter, it was only paperback books (no text books). I would have maybe saved ~$30 (excluding shipping, which I would have paid for) by buying through Amazon. I don't like used paperbacks because of their tendency to fall apart. Also, the bookstore that sells the Humanities/History/Sociology books gives a 10% discount to members ($30 one time fee, which I've made back in the discount already) and they sell most of their books at the same price as Amazon.com.

BTW, most of my books were $5-$25 each, just had a lot to buy.
 
I buy used text books online or local. Just found a seller for a sociology book that would cost me 90 bucks, but shes charging 30 bucks. People put up flyers and ads all over campus for used books. You just have to make sure its the same or similar book.
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: MrPickins
I looked around, and surprisingly, my books would cost about the same used from the bookstore as they would online, if shipping is taken into account.

Where were you buying them from?
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half.com
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Dang, that was where I was looking. 🙁

I was hoping you knew something I didn't...
 
are you taking into account your campus bookstore may have used available? and that you may have saved less tha 200 if you bought used
 
Originally posted by: animalia
are you taking into account your campus bookstore may have used available? and that you may have saved less tha 200 if you bought used
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The used books at a campus bookstore are still overpriced.
 
When I bought my books from amazon last term the university bought some of them back at the end of the term book buyback.
 
Originally posted by: tranceport
But you can't return them at the end of the semester.
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Do you mean resell? I don't see why that would be a problem. A book is a book is a book. All books of the same title and edition will have the same ISBN and your bookstore will be none the wiser where you got it from...unless your bookstore only buys back books bought at their store.

In my experiences, that's not the case. In face, I actually made money one semester by buying all my books online (used) and selling them back to the bookstore for more. Bookstores traditionally sell for 75% of cover price, and buy back for 50% of cover. So if you can buy them for less than half on Half.com....Profit!
 
Originally posted by: animalia
are you taking into account your campus bookstore may have used available? and that you may have saved less tha 200 if you bought used
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yes. that was the used prices. new I probably saved $350.
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: animalia
are you taking into account your campus bookstore may have used available? and that you may have saved less tha 200 if you bought used
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yes. that was the used prices. new I probably saved $350.
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awesome...yeah who cares if they won't buy em back...sell em on ebay and make a sh!t ton of money.
 
So far, since Monday, I've spent just over $500. on books and supplies, and still haven't bought my drafting book or supplies yet...Those will be OVER $200...
So far, I've seen a couple of different textbooks that are "Campus Specific" with certain chapters edited or abridged, and they WILL NOT accept other versions for the classes...many won't accept the previous edition of a text either...the same one they used LAST year or LAST semester! What a racket...😉 But hey, we only pay $20/unit! :roll:
 
None of my books this year are really useful to buy online: one of them is a reader, the other one I'm borrowing from my friend, and the last one is the same used at the student bookstore as everywhere else.
 
I'm only taking one class right now. I bought one book online used. The other was a book on a cd that the teacher was conveniently the author for and sold for $35. What a crock.
 
I used to buy 2 sets of books. One set from the bookstore so that I could use them on the first day of class -- for some reason most of the professors in the classes I took seldom released the book list until 2 or 3 days before class starts. While I have the ones I need, I order the same ones online for a lot less. Once they arrive, I just return the ones to the bookstore. I did this for 3 years and saved a few grand, which I ended up spending on the college gf (but this story is beyond the scope of this thread). 😀
 
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