i know i only get a fraction of what i paid for them

[cosmo105]

but DAMN if textbook buyback doesn't make finals week a little less "being disemboweled alive"-feeling! why, you'll take these four crap-ass books and give me $120 - cash? YES PLZ :cool: and to think, after wednesday i can sell them 3 more.

[Extra Cheese]

you're crazy.

that always made it even worse for me. at times paying near $100 for books and then get 15 dollars for them. or even better when they say sorry theres a new edition you get nothing

[cosmo105]

i know, i know. i try not to think about that. sure, i could go online and actually get around what i paid for them - but i am a very lazy person, and i have come to accept that i will NEVER DO THIS. besides, i tell myself that i'm helping out some poor soul at my school that needs the book instead of someone out there in internetland.

[marsdaddy]

"being disemboweled alive"Nutrition major? ;)

Before the interent, we'd meet in front of the book store to do our non-sactioned deals. I once got taken for a book with a flask it it. I was the real winner, though!

[Auton]

but DAMN if textbook buyback doesn't make finals week a little less "being disemboweled alive"-feeling! why, you'll take these four crap-ass books and give me $120 - cash? YES PLZ :cool: and to think, after wednesday i can sell them 3 more.

yes, it truly is a celebration of life.

[kaiser soze]

for about $1200 worth of books, I may have walked away with $100

new editions can suck my ass

[jlees_mcsd]

I always sell mine back after I always say what a rip-off it is but I will be damned if I end up so strapped for $$ that my foolass says thank you when I get $50 for a book I paid $130. It's some bullshit.

[milleson]

I'd rather burn them on the doorstep of the bookstore than sell them back to those greedy assholes. It'd be much more satisfying.

Instead, I usually sell them on eBay or Half.com and make my money back.

[befsquire]

I always sell mine back after I always say what a rip-off it is but I will be damned if I end up so strapped for $$ that my foolass says thank you when I get $50 for a book I paid $130. It's some bullshit.
it's almost like someone posted, but i can't really recognize it since it's not in the thousand post range. :rolleyes:


anyway, i figured any money i got at all during book buyback was better than just throwing it away.

[QueenAdrock]

UMD has a place near campus called Bookholders.com. You could set the price of your textbook there (they suggest what it should be), they hold on to them indefinitely and try to sell them for you. If they do, they take 10%. It's a good system. Pour example:

I bought one book for $30, the book store offered me $6 for it (bastards). They would then sell it for about $22 and make a shitload of money. Instead, I put it on sale at Bookholders for $18 and sold it. I make more money, the person buying saves money, and Bookholders just took $1.80 for their services.

It's fuckin' sweet. I'm waiting to see if my books from last spring sell in the next few weeks. Some are older editions, but it doesn't matter because they might sell too (people wanting it for supplemental reading). (y)

[ToucanSpam]

Get aload of this crap I found out.


At the begining of the year I bought a 160 dollar (Canadian dollarz lol) textbook that was required for my one psych class. I found out at the exam that it was IMPOSSIBLE TO RETURN because a new edition was coming out, and that rendered my mint condish book WORTHLESS.

Ouch.

EDIT: I also want to point out I was offered no money for the following books:

The Prince
Utopia
The two Lives of Charlemagne

Uhhhhhhhh

Those books are worth more than the lives of the retarded people I was trying to sell my books to. Hence my second thoughts of getting rid of them, and now they reside in my book shelf, where I am slowly adding history books so I can pretend I've read them all. *nerd* :o

[befsquire]

highlight with abandon!

[QueenAdrock]

Get aload of this crap I found out.


At the begining of the year I bought a 160 dollar (Canadian dollarz lol) textbook that was required for my one psych class. I found out at the exam that it was IMPOSSIBLE TO RETURN because a new edition was coming out, and that rendered my mint condish book WORTHLESS.

Ouch.

Same thing happened to me, but I knew it going into the class. It was a "preliminary edition." The teacher worked really hard on the book and yet it still wasn't ready by September - it had grammatical errors and no pictures to supplement the text (though it said see graphic 1.4, etc. for everything). Instead of using another text, he said he'd go ahead with his shit edition, and then go ahead with the 1st edition the next spring.

It was really hard to read and terrible. So many spelling errors, too. Ugh. And I can't sell that piece of shit to ANYONE. (n)

PS Out of all the history books I decided to keep, it was The Prince, my Holocaust books, as well as human rights violations books (Sam Powers' America and the Age of Genocide is awesome).

[Bob]

i never used to write/highlight in textbooks (in fact i rarely even read them) before i came to law school but now, i've essentially written a second book within the margins of the first book. i'd honestly feel a little bad about returning them, the next buyer wouldn't really have room to write any of their own notes (and they'd need to!)

well, i'd feel bad if the books didn't cost like a bagillion dollars. they're fucking TOMES, i tell you. i feel like a wizard or a monk or something every time i open one.

come to think of it, i didn't even see any used books for sale when i bought mine. it's just as well, they'd have been usedless (LOL)

[jlees_mcsd]

it's almost like someone posted, but i can't really recognize it since it's not in the thousand post range. :rolleyes:


anyway, i figured any money i got at all during book buyback was better than just throwing it away.


Oh my God that is too funny in a not too funny way.
I guess it all balances at tax time because I get breaks for those expenses anyway and I do keep the one's I find usefull. Unknown:)

[ToucanSpam]

PS Out of all the history books I decided to keep, it was The Prince, my Holocaust books, as well as human rights violations books (Sam Powers' America and the Age of Genocide is awesome).

Ohhhhhhhh that reminds me, I have a nice little story


The other day my former English prof gave me a bag of about 5 books on the Soviert Union, all published pre-Glasnost in the early 1970s. When I asked him where he got them or why he had them he said 'I dont remember....the 70s were a strange time.' I looked at the Soviet Union's logo on the book, looked at him, and he gave me this bizarre 'you got it' look.

So my prof was a commie.....or an anti-commie?:confused:

[QueenAdrock]

ahahaha

Well, I found an original edition of Mein Kampf, published in 1926. It was $40 at a used book store, so I got it. It was kinda weird knowing that the book I held in my hands was probably read years before, and I can't help but wonder what effect my edition had on the person reading it then.

But good thing it was a used book store, otherwise I'd be on some kind of list now. Though I probably am, because I borrowed a shitload of Nazi/genocide/human rights violation books. I always felt weird when I left the library with "NAZISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY!" books, but I had a 15-pager to write on it dammit. The other people there would always give me strange looks. :(