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Stu Piddasle · 04-26-2004, 06:29 PM

So I get out of my speech class today and thought to myself, hey I need some extra cash, I think I'll go sell my books. So I take my time and mosey on over to the book store. I walk in the front doors of the Isacc K. Beckes Student Union and get the books I want to sell. I have a mass communications book and a brand new advanced radio book that I want to sell back. The Mass communications book wasn't very expensive at all so I knew I wouldn't get very much out of that, but the advanced radio book was $90.00 I thought I would get a somewhat decent amount of money out of it. Well to my surprise both books were old editions. The book store wouldn't buy them back. After explaining to the dumb fuckers that the radio book was brand new and that I paid $90.00 for it, they still wouldn't buy it back. So I am stuck with two books that I will probably never use again in my life. So all I have to say is FUCK The Book Store and their jewish ways. They are nothing but a bunch of nigger loving fairy's and they deserve to die.

Orgazmo · 04-26-2004, 06:44 PM

You could always throw it up on Half to see what you can get out of it . . .

Calamity Jane · 04-26-2004, 07:45 PM

bookstores suck. NEVER sell your books back to the bookstore. i bought a precalculus book, at the beginning of last semester, for over $100. i got $10 back for it. only $10! from this experience, i have learned that half.com is the place to go for buying or selling your books, or check with other people you know to find out what books they need/have, so you can trade if possible. i got my calculus book ($150 in the bookstore) for $30 from one of my friends who decided to quit school and just wanted to get rid of the book cause he hated it so much. it always pays to ask around.

f3lix · 04-26-2004, 08:13 PM

Your anger is misplaced. Bookstores only do what the professors tell them to do. Yes, bookstores make a pretty penny on used books, b/c that is their business; however, when your professor elects to use a newer edition instead, they are at fault for your anger.

A reason professors do this is to support each other. Most universities require their staff to be published once or twice each year; new editions of textbooks count as this. Especially when a prof has you buy their book for their class, they are making an assload on you.

That's the system for you.

Stu Piddasle · 04-26-2004, 08:19 PM

I wish there was a way to govern that somehow so piece of shit professors and bookstores don't screw students over, we are already paying out the ass for an education.

04-26-2004, 06:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Stu Piddasle Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Warsaw Posts: 58 Internets: 10	So I get out of my speech class today and thought to myself, hey I need some extra cash, I think I'll go sell my books. So I take my time and mosey on over to the book store. I walk in the front doors of the Isacc K. Beckes Student Union and get the books I want to sell. I have a mass communications book and a brand new advanced radio book that I want to sell back. The Mass communications book wasn't very expensive at all so I knew I wouldn't get very much out of that, but the advanced radio book was $90.00 I thought I would get a somewhat decent amount of money out of it. Well to my surprise both books were old editions. The book store wouldn't buy them back. After explaining to the dumb fuckers that the radio book was brand new and that I paid $90.00 for it, they still wouldn't buy it back. So I am stuck with two books that I will probably never use again in my life. So all I have to say is FUCK The Book Store and their jewish ways. They are nothing but a bunch of nigger loving fairy's and they deserve to die.
	- Stu Piddasle

04-26-2004, 08:19 PM	#5 (permalink)
Stu Piddasle Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Warsaw Posts: 58 Internets: 10	I wish there was a way to govern that somehow so piece of shit professors and bookstores don't screw students over, we are already paying out the ass for an education.
	- Stu Piddasle

04-26-2004, 06:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
Orgazmo COME ON YOU YANKS Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 15,732 Internets: 311447	You could always throw it up on Half to see what you can get out of it . . .

04-26-2004, 07:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
Calamity Jane Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: indiana Posts: 309 Internets: 10	bookstores suck. NEVER sell your books back to the bookstore. i bought a precalculus book, at the beginning of last semester, for over $100. i got $10 back for it. only $10! from this experience, i have learned that half.com is the place to go for buying or selling your books, or check with other people you know to find out what books they need/have, so you can trade if possible. i got my calculus book ($150 in the bookstore) for $30 from one of my friends who decided to quit school and just wanted to get rid of the book cause he hated it so much. it always pays to ask around.

04-26-2004, 08:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
f3lix Gangnam Style Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DH's Massage Parlor Posts: 6,383 Internets: 213510	Your anger is misplaced. Bookstores only do what the professors tell them to do. Yes, bookstores make a pretty penny on used books, b/c that is their business; however, when your professor elects to use a newer edition instead, they are at fault for your anger. A reason professors do this is to support each other. Most universities require their staff to be published once or twice each year; new editions of textbooks count as this. Especially when a prof has you buy their book for their class, they are making an assload on you. That's the system for you.