University motherfucking cocksmoking assraping ripoff Bookstore

[rnch]

campus bookstores are worse than honda or toyota dealers. talk about depreciation!! in 5 months the "book" value (no pun intended) of your textbooks drop .....what.....69% when u sell them back to the store used?

some of my books were so pristine the wrapper was still on them 5 months later, lolol

SOMEONE administered some street justice by squirting deer piss thru the mail flap on the bokstore's front door, and superglue in the door lock.

i wonder who that was????

 

[Triple-G]

i either download them off the internet (emule, usenet) or rent them for a day to scan them. i have 100s of books in .pdf-format on my notebook that would probably weigh a ton in printed format.

 

[Triple-G]

college is pretty much a giant assraping.....it's sad really, in contrast to school over in europe

we pay with our taxes - even those who never go to college pay for it. schools lack quality, there is no ivy league equivalent in europe, only 3rd tier. only private institutions can match US' top tier universities.
because it costs close to nothing colleges are overcrowded, students a fighting for rare seats in seminars and often have to wait several terms to take a mandatory class. in the end it often takes double the time to finish college compared to private unis.
guess where wealthy european or asian families are sending their kids for study? US schools

 

[Spanky11]

campus bookstores are worse than honda or toyota dealers. talk about depreciation!! in 5 months the "book" value (no pun intended) of your textbooks drop .....what.....69% when u sell them back to the store used?

some of my books were so pristine the wrapper was still on them 5 months later, lolol

SOMEONE administered some street justice by squirting deer piss thru the mail flap on the bokstore's front door, and superglue in the door lock.

i wonder who that was????

please read my original post. its the lecturers you need to be stupid shit to

 

[danielson]

college is pretty much a giant assraping.....it's sad really, in contrast to school over in europe - at least in England, where you basically go for free, usually get all kinds of student discounts, and a grant check from the government every semester.

over here it's basically just a business.....

no grant check, its all loans with interest....but tutition is pretty much paid for at present. However due to the seemingly international trend of making people do pointless degree's and then leave them in debt with no jobs when they qualify the fee's may have to start being paid for

 

[UA_Iron]

well, actually this is not true.

I work as a rep for one of publishing companies, and it is ALWAYS the lecturers fault that they wait until the last minute before telling the bookstore what books they have chosen - it has nothing to do with the bookstore. The lecturers 99.9% of the time also underestimate the number of students their class shall have so the bookstore always runs out of stock. Lecturers are arrogant pricks to deal with as well, even worse if it their book.

Regarding amazon and the like, they simply do what fogg88 said, so find out that way.

You can get by with buying older editions of first and second year subjects as the lecturers are usually new and are famous for simply using the previous years notes. Once you start to specialise - like engineering, etc, then you unfortunately do need they latest editions.

Also, the bookstores get a really shitty discount from the pub companies - like 20-25% discount, so don't take it out on them. Online gets twice as much, due to the volume they move.

previous editions of engineering books are fine, its just the problem sets that have been changed.

Here's what you do: Borrow a previous edition from someone who took it in a previous semester. Buy a new edition, copy all the problem sets (I even know a way to rip off the copy machines at my school) and then return the book.

Content is rarely changed in these books.

 

[Spanky11]

previous editions of engineering books are fine, its just the problem sets that have been changed.

Here's what you do: Borrow a previous edition from someone who took it in a previous semester. Buy a new edition, copy all the problem sets (I even know a way to rip off the copy machines at my school) and then return the book.

Content is rarely changed in these books.

true dat - the only thing that has dramatically changed over the past 5 years is that the price has dramatically risen