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[POLL] Poll for all students

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OulOat

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This poll is for all pre, current, or post college students. As you all might know, bookstores screw students on buying back books. They pay 50% of the used price for books, then sell it for 75% of the new book price. So my question is, are you willing to use an free local, online book trading site? You can post books and search for others. The website lets you know if someone is interested in your book, and then you make the transaction in person. No cc or any identification is needed to sign up, and the website collects no dues from the students. So would you use that site?
 
We have a forum for our school with a books category that I use for all my book transactions, which really has been a godsend.
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
We have a forum for our school with a books category that I use for all my book transactions, which really has been a godsend.
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What's the website?
 
I voted 'no' but not for the reasons listed. A friend of mine used one this semester and she got royally screwed by one person and another book was very late. It isn't cheaper if you get ripped off.
 
Originally posted by: DAGTA
I voted 'no' but not for the reasons listed. A friend of mine used one this semester and she got royally screwed by one person and another book was very late. It isn't cheaper if you get ripped off.
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How can you get screwed if you do the transaction in person? This is local remember.
 
Yes. As I posted many times before... my frat organized a book sale on campus in the campus center every semester... you bring in your books... you set the price... we sell them and get to keep $1 as commission.... or, if your book doesn't sell, you get your book back. If it didn't sell, most likely the bookstore wouldn't have bought it back anyway, and if it did sell, you got about 3 times what the bookstore would give you back.

If you bought, you saved a lot of money on the bookstore's price.

Everyone was a winner... including our fraternity.
(except, the book store lost out on a lot of sales.. If you consider their buy-back price and the used book price, the bookstore missed out on 10's of thousands of dollars of profit.
 
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