There's 2 bookstores at my college. New textbooks can run anywhere between $120 to $180. Used textbooks are usually about $70 to $150. When you go to sell them back at the end of the semester you usually get one of these responses:
1) We can only give you $5 bucks back for that (original price $100)
2) We have met our quota of that book, try back next semester
3) This book isn't being used next year, sorry.
I've wasted thousands of dollars, and yes I mean thousands, on textbooks that I got no money back for or was only offered 5 dollars. Is this a crisis at every school or just mine? These bookstores are making PURE profits. It's sad.
2006-09-07
15:15:37
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