So I just returned a library book 15 minutes late

[yhelothar]

Well it was a textbook from my university library at UCR.
but WTF?!?!
So universities can really rape their students anyway they please?

Yes I fucked up, but 15minutes on a book shouldn't be a $14 fuckup. How the hell do they come up with these fees?

/rant

 

[MrDudeMan]

What did you do?

 

[Flammable]

oh man fucked in the ass, our library charges 5 cents a day..

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
What did you do?

yeah i know it's hard to believe, but the title is quite precise in describing what i did.

 

[Tommouse]

Ask what the maximum late fee would be, if you lost it. Pay it. Then set the book on fire, right there in front of them, for their viewing pleasure.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Tommouse
Ask what the maximum late fee would be, if you lost it. Pay it. Then set the book on fire, right there in front of them, for their viewing pleasure.

For a textbook the max fee might be the price of the book, which may be over $100.

Was the book on reserve? My university would charge a huge fee if a book on reserve was returned late.

 

[dbk]

Seems pretty excessive. I think it was $.10 a day per book for me...maybe $.25

 

[OdiN]

Check out a book.

Return it 2 days early.

Ask them for $2688.

 

[brtspears2]

Books on reserve have huge fines attached to them so people won't hog it. It stinks when you are waiting in queue for it but the person before doesn't return it on time.

 

[Jschmuck2]

What's your major? I also went to UCR 🙂

 

[yhelothar]

yeah it was a book on reserve... and it would suck for the nex person waiting for it, but $14 for 15minutes is still excessive?
i'm a neuroscience major btw 🙂

i'm going to set an alarm on my phone fo shizzle next time.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: astroidea
yeah it was a book on reserve... and it would suck for the nex person waiting for it, but $14 for 15minutes is still excessive?
i'm a neuroscience major btw 🙂

i'm going to set an alarm on my phone fo shizzle next time.

Usually you get hit with that fine as soon as its late. They usually tell people coming in when it's supposed to be back so there may have been somebody waiting for it.

 

[yhelothar]

Yeah it's a $10 *cough*processing fee*cough* the second it's late.
The actual fine is a few cents per minute.

 

[George P Burdell]

Next time, don't be late.

 

[StageLeft]

Total bullsh*t. I feel zero guilt about when I bought a book from the university bookstore, photocopied the relevant chapters for $20 in photocopying fees, and returned that $100 book. I always thought universities were a big money scam and now that I am close friends with a new professor, I can confirm it. He worked hard to get where he is now in school, but now he's a prof he works basically not at all and has benefits that are embarrassing for me to even relay. It's basically equivalent to semi-retiring at the age of 30.

 

[Newbian]

Next time I guess you can just search online and find it for free in pdf format or such.

 

[SirStev0]

I returned a book that was 6.5 years overdue to the library. The fine was 5 dollars.

Awesome.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Newbian
Next time I guess you can just search online and find it for free in pdf format or such.

Most likely a text book. Severely doubt you'd be able to find that.

 

[paulxcook]

I graduated from college in May 2007 and I still have about 12 library books checked out. I have like a $600 fine on my bursar account, but I already have my diploma.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Newbian
Next time I guess you can just search online and find it for free in pdf format or such.

Most likely a text book. Severely doubt you'd be able to find that.

When I looked for some of mine I found them and that was awhile ago so I am sure you can find them these days with ease, not to mention the teacher's version is always nice to print out also. 😉

 

[SAWYER]

Pfft that's nothing, I checked out MS XP and Office from my college library and had a lte fees that was in the 100's

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: Newbian
Next time I guess you can just search online and find it for free in pdf format or such.

Most likely a text book. Severely doubt you'd be able to find that.

When I looked for some of mine I found them and that was awhile ago so I am sure you can find them these days with ease, not to mention the teacher's version is always nice to print out also. 😉

I not sure. I've tried and failed pretty hard.

 

[Kirby]

I know with our local public library, January is amnesty month. So if the book was late, I'd just wait until then.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I graduated from college in May 2007 and I still have about 12 library books checked out. I have like a $600 fine on my bursar account, but I already have my diploma.

I hope you get run over by a SUV asshole.

 

[sash1]

i had over $100 in overdue fees at the library at USM (university of southern maine)... yeh that was awesome