What Do You Do With Your Old College Books?

[2pacnbiggie]

I've got some from this semester im gonna sell back to the school so i should get about a good $200 - 250 back (they give u 50 percent of what you paid for if you are one of the first 100 books to come back), but i've never really sold any books back so i still have some old college books from my first year

i took a couple of the older books to a store and they said it was an older edition and they wouldnt buy it back...


where do u all sell ur books? any luck for gettin rid of my old ass books from freshman year

any websites, stores or suggestions of some place i could possibly sell the older books to?

 

[bigmack]

I've got some from this semester im gonna sell back to the school so i should get about a good $200 - 250 back (they give u 50 percent of what you paid for if you are one of the first 100 books to come back), but i've never really sold any books back so i still have some old college books from my first year

i took a couple of the older books to a store and they said it was an older edition and they wouldnt buy it back...


where do u all sell ur books? any luck for gettin rid of my old ass books from freshman year

any websites, stores or suggestions of some place i could possibly sell the older books to?

prints all the book titles you have on a piece of paper,and pin them to those pin boards they have beside the classes that use those books.

 

[Dante]

i only sold books that didn't pertain to my area of study, and looking back that's the smartest move you can make. in psychology, for example, it's easier for me to reference a textbook's index than it would be to do a lit search. likewise, the sources cited in the creation of whatever relevant passage in the text make for a good extended search. save your books, because if you attain a professional career you will use them if you have them.

other general education texts i did sell... universities usually employ a quota system that will reduce the buyback price substantially once a certain stock is reached, so it's wise to sell right after your last final or the last time you need the book. you can sell your books on amazon, but these days new editions drop every 1 to 2 years it seems, so in many ways it's probably easiest and most economical to just sell them locally (and sooner than later).

 

[Dante]

prints all the book titles you have on a piece of paper,and pin them to those pin boards they have beside the classes that use those books.

most universities i'm aware of prohibit unapproved advertising, so whatever someone pins up will probably see the trash before the end of the day.

 

[bigmack]

most universities i'm aware of prohibit unapproved advertising, so whatever someone pins up will probably see the trash before the end of the day.

seriously eh. we could pin up whatever we wanted. oh canada

 

[The.Menace]

lol, yeah and here's a question - why shouldn't u be allowed to pin up something like that?

 

[PuffnScruff]

ecampus.com
check that site out

i just kept mine since they would only give us like 12 bucks for a 100 dollar book

 

[Dante]

lol, yeah and here's a question - why shouldn't u be allowed to pin up something like that?

variety of reasons... even in a public institution it's still private property. likewise, having advertisements on private property implies endorsement. if someone applied for a credit card from an application that was on a university bulletin board that turns out to be an identity theft scam, there'd be legal grounds to pursue suit against the university as well as those who profited.

of a few universities that i have had affiliation, all of them required postings on boards to go through an approval process, at which time they'd stay up for a month. anything posted without the approval stamp was removed by janitorial staff.

...i'll add that i stopped buying books locally after checking out online prices. if you have dilligent professors who turn in the required book lists early then even with shipping prices tended to be cheaper than locally. additionally i got a few teacher edition texts that, while mostly without advantage, in my stats class i looked like a human calculator when i was called upon (calling on people in a college classroom is absurd).

 

[Tru Principle]

I'm with Dante, if you are going to have a professional career where you need your field of study alot you will need to look back from time to time.

 

[ToopackShaker]

Even if they don't let you advertise, just find out what lecture room the class is being held in next semester. Then on the first day of the next semester on the blackboard write "SELLING ________" and leave an email address. Most profs won't bother reporting an email address. They'll just erase your message or even keep it there if they don't use the blackboard.

 

[Jeremy]

That is the biggest scam ever. When you sell them back they give you like $10 and you paid $100. Or they say that they have a new book for that course now so you can't sell it back. When this happens it goes in the trash can.

 

[Pacaveli-T]

i paid like fucking 150$ for my russian books only to be told after they dont want to buy it back because they dont need it anymore and its oo expensive the fucking schools are corrupt with that shit, it pisses me off because most of the books are rotting in my closet and a lot of ppl dont but the bks anymore cause teachers dont bother to use em anymore so i got about 250$ in my closet and cant do jack about it

 

[jbrolax]

well i never buy books until i absolutly need them, then i sell them back to the school, u can try going to other schools in the area, a books a book right

 

[Jokerman]

Here's what u do. Your class is using the 6th Edition of Whatever. You buy the 5th edition for $10 from the fool who paid $100 for it last year and use that. Like 3 paragraphs have been changed between the 5th and 6th. Get the homework examples from a classmate if they are different. Usually not.

 

[jbrolax]

Here's what u do. Your class is using the 6th Edition of Whatever. You buy the 5th edition for $10 from the fool who paid $100 for it last year and use that. Like 3 paragraphs have been changed between the 5th and 6th. Get the homework examples from a classmate if they are different. Usually not.

100% true, they will change a few pictures and maybe a paragraph here and there to justify the new version, one my proffesors let us buy any of the last 4 editions of his text book

 

[SicC]

try going to follet.com as well

pz

 

[roaches]

I usually just sell them back to the bookstore. My scholarship pays for them, and, hey... post-finals drinking money.

 

[RidinOutDaStorm]

I have always sold all of my textbooks back to the book store, but they only will give us 40% of what they sell it for at most. I have a few older editions of books, but I am keeping them mostly (Organic Chem, Molecular Bio, Anatomy/Physiology, etc..) because as Dante said, you never know when you may need to reference them.

A few years back I was low on funds for books, so I just purchased the 2nd edition of a textbook instead of the 3rd edition. Most editions are almost identical besides correcting a very small mistake or flaw in the text itself, or to provide a more current example of something. Usually, you can pick up a non-current edition of a textbook for $5-$10 compared to $100-$175 for a textbook for the newest edition.