Awhile back I wrote a two-part piece on how to get the most money for your textbooks when selling them and get the best price for buying them, since finals are rolling around for everyone right now, I thought I’d put a little reminder up for everyone.
How I Beat the Bookstore: Part 1 (Buying)
How I [...]
I don’t like buying textbooks from the bookstore, no one does. They’re expensive, oftentimes you are supporting what is effectively, a local monopoly, you have to fight crowds at the beginning of the semester, and so on. They force us to buy books at inflated prices and then offering us pennies on the dollar to [...]
I am a big proponent of not buying textbooks from the campus bookstore. Textbooks are already expensive, but bookstores also try to get their hooks in us also, forcing us to buy books at inflated prices and then offering us pennies on the dollar to sell the books back - giving them pure profit. I [...]
