Text-book buyback - Page 2

AchtungBaby80 · #1 04-28-2003, 08:31 PM

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Originally posted by kddani
Everyone, seriously check out selling them on half.com and/or amazon.com
And for buying too.
It's really easy, and you definately get a lot back for your money.

I listed 5 review books last for my law classes, when I came home this afternoon, 2 had sold already.

Cool. How does that work?

AXJules · #2 04-28-2003, 08:35 PM

Well I know at textbookx.com you enter the isbn number (above the bar code) into their site. They come up with a pic of the book and the title so you know its accurate. You answer a couple questions about the quality of the book and set a price. They even give you the avg. price on the site so you can make a competitive deal.
Then, if anyone wants it you get an email, and either give the site your credit card ## to credit you $$$$ or they will credit your bank account but that takes longer. Print out the mailing label that they make for you and that's it! Send it media mail and you're good to go.

texas*princess · #3 04-28-2003, 09:03 PM

on www.half.com you just enter the ISBN # and click the button to sell yours. It's really quick & easy! I have successfully sold books there before!

Dionysus · #4 04-28-2003, 09:19 PM

Last semester, I got like 50$ back from books. That was the most I ever got!

smiley21 · #5 04-28-2003, 09:30 PM

one year ago, i sold my books back and got something like $110. what the heck happened to those days?!

kddani · #6 04-28-2003, 09:33 PM

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Originally posted by texas*princess
on www.half.com you just enter the ISBN # and click the button to sell yours. It's really quick & easy! I have successfully sold books there before!

What she said!
You use your ebay name for half.com if you have one. It's REALLY easy to do.

navane · #7 04-29-2003, 09:46 AM

At California State University Long Beach, I usually got a pretty good deal from my textbook buybacks. Though, I remember one year I had to buy a brand new (used wasn't an option) $90+ anatomy textbook. When I took it back they told me they wouldn't buy it because they were getting a new edition next year. I DON'T THINK SO. New edition? Puh-lease....it's not as if the composition of the human body has changed, and it's not like there were any exercises in the book.

Anyway, on the whole, I used to get back a nice enough price to make it worth it for me. Otherwise, if they didn't offer a good price on a particular book, I just took it home and kept it for reference.

My last year or so, the CSULB bookstore responded to student complaints about textbook prices and buyback rates. So, the bookstore started guaranteeing a minimum 50% buyback price on certain texts. So, when you went in at the beginning of the term and saw that your textbook had a "50% back guaranteed" sticker on it, you could feel more confident about buying that particular text.

.....Kelly

Kevin · #8 04-29-2003, 10:27 AM

Can some enterprising young attorney please take these textbook companies on in a class-action price fixing suit? I would truly love to see those people suffer

texas*princess · #9 04-29-2003, 10:30 AM

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Originally posted by ktsnake
Can some enterprising young attorney please take these textbook companies on in a class-action price fixing suit? I would truly love to see those people suffer

lol I was thinking the same thing.

I was wondering.. can this really be done? At my school (and the last university I attended) they would buy back the books for like $20 and turn around and sell them the next semester for $80. And that's a "Used" book!

That's why I turned to half.com !!!

kddani · #10 04-29-2003, 10:38 AM

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Originally posted by ktsnake
Can some enterprising young attorney please take these textbook companies on in a class-action price fixing suit? I would truly love to see those people suffer

Hehe, i laughed when i read that- I just finished learning all about class action suits (took my final on it yesterday).... unfortunately I have a few more years to go before I'm admitted to the bar. And class actions are hard as hell to put through........

But it would definately be something that i'd love to see go to court.

For years business have been taking advantage of young people in all sorts of ways, exercising semi-monopolies over us.

I need to look into another class action suit that's actually in the making for a company taking advantage of young people- one of the chain stores like Express or American Eagle is getting sued because they make their employees wear that season's clothes. The employees aren't making very much over minimum wage, so when you subject the money they need to spend on the clothes to work there from the amount of money they're making, they're making well less than minimum wage.

Whoever got the idea to bring that to suit is a genius. I was offered a job at American Eagle in HS, they were going to pay me more than the usual starting wage b/c I had a lot of retail experience (TJ Maxx), but it was still less than what I was making at TJ's, AND i had to buy their clothes. Nope, I thought that was shady, and I still think it is.

Sorry for the hijack!

Munchkin03 · #11 04-29-2003, 11:32 AM

I'm frankly not surprised that AE, Express, and stores like that have gotten away with that for so long. I think most of them believe that their workers are teenagers who would buy the clothes there anyway--so the kids, who are working for pocket money and would get minimum wherever they worked, are working for the discount. I guess it only becomes tragic when adults are working there. Bah.

I know the Gap doesn't make you wear THAT CURRENT SEASON'S clothes--although you do have to wear Gap stuff. But, since they tend to sell essentially the same staples season after season, it wouldn't be a bad investment. I wouldn't do it for stores like A&F, AE, and Aeropostale, which are just trendoid places to begin with.

PM_Mama00 · #12 04-29-2003, 12:44 PM

I have a $90 math book that is pretty much brand new. To buy it new at the book store woulda been $120. I could have gotten $50 back for it, cept I didn't buy the solutions manual with it and you can't return it with out that. WTF? Why don't they tell u these things when you buy them?

Hootie · #13 05-09-2003, 01:04 AM

I banked this semester. I had bunches of books from last semester too and I got $139 back....yippie. I went shopping!

IowaHawkeye · #14 05-09-2003, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by Munchkin03

I know the Gap doesn't make you wear THAT CURRENT SEASON'S clothes--although you do have to wear Gap stuff. But, since they tend to sell essentially the same staples season after season, it wouldn't be a bad investment. I wouldn't do it for stores like A&F, AE, and Aeropostale, which are just trendoid places to begin with.

This is CCOMPLETELY off the thread topic but....

I worked at GAP for over 3 years - we ALWAYS had to wear that seasons current clothes. If it wasn't on the floor - don't wear it! Basics, like khakis and jeans were fine - but shirts had to be current. But we got a 50% discount on a certian # of items each month - so it wasn't that bad.

damasa · #15 05-09-2003, 01:16 AM

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Originally posted by IowaHawkeye
This is CCOMPLETELY off the thread topic but....

I worked at GAP for over 3 years - we ALWAYS had to wear that seasons current clothes. If it wasn't on the floor - don't wear it! Basics, like khakis and jeans were fine - but shirts had to be current. But we got a 50% discount on a certian # of items each month - so it wasn't that bad.

Because you worked at GAP you lose the thread.

Game over....