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Originally Posted by TadW
Another (legal) way to fight against outrages textbook prices: textbookrevolt. |
This would have been cool back in the day. I actually used Half.com and bought/sold my textbooks there. I could usually pick up a book for 1/3 what the bookstore was trying to rip out of us. The cool thing about that was I could flip the book after the class and most times get my money back out of it.
It sucks watching all the poor students lining up to sell back their textbooks for only $5-15 and see the pirates at the store re-mark the as "Used" and sell it for $90-100. Worse yet were the poor saps who found out their books were worthless and had to toss them due to a *new* edition. They even had a big bin next to the return windows where students could toss the book they paid $70 for 10-12 weeks ago.