University motherfucking cocksmoking assraping ripoff Bookstore

[evansteve]

the past few semesters i've gone in to purchase my books a week early. this gives me 2 benifits. one is if i have to take my kids, i don't have to deal with big crowds. the other is that if the book is horribly overpriced, i can just write down the ISBN and order it online. it has been my experience that if the book is priced over $50 in the school bookstore, i'll save $10-20 ordering it online. under $50 and i just buy it at the bookstore. it's faster.

there's only 2 ways to find out what books i need. one is to go to class and get the syllabus. the other is to go into the bookstore and find it in there.

so i figure today i'll go down and start my book shopping. semester starts next Monday, so today would be a great day to get started and if i had to order any books online, they'd be here by Tuesday next week or so. perfect.

stopped at a buddy's house on the way down to campus and hung out for a while. he called the bookstore to make sure they were open. they said no then he asked when students can come down and start buying books....SATURDAY.


so what does this mean, you ask? well, since Saturday is the first day we can go in and start finding books and the semester starts on Monday, that leaves no time to order books online. this, my friends, was done on purpose.

me and my buddy are mad as hell about this. it's a fucking rip off. last semester i took an electronics class. the bookstore wanted $115 for the book new, they had no used ones (which if they did would've been $85). i ordered the book online for $70 shipped. since the bookstore was open a week early and i could find out what the book was, i had it the first day of classes.

so yeah, ok, i could just wait, right? well, every semester i end up having 2 classes where i need the book during the first week. with my luck, it will be the outrageously overpriced ones this time. fucking bullshit.

fuck the god damn university.

so i took some aggression out on my rental car i don't feel any better though. i need to go take out more aggression on the rental car

yeah my bookstore does this too. They purposely wait for stinking forever, before they sell books, just to force the students to buy them from the store.

 

[UA_Iron]

Its even worse when the teachers lag on putting up the required books for the class. By the time you know which ones all the used copies are sold out and you have to buy a new book.

new engineering books = expensive.

 

[bulldog3434]

i never buy my books the first week. i always wait till the 2nd week of classes. by then, i can usually tell if i need the book or not

 

[fogg88]

Dude, this is an easy problem to solve.

1) Look on your schedule and see which professors you have.

2) Look up professor's school e-mail addresses in directory.

3) e-mail professors and just ask them. ...most professors do check their e-mails and work throughout the break, and will probably be pleased with your initiative.

4) Learn to be more resourceful ...you're a marine, damnit.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

Dude, this is an easy problem to solve.

1) Look on your schedule and see which professors you have.

2) Look up professor's school e-mail addresses in directory.

3) e-mail professors and just ask them. ...most professors do check their e-mails and work throughout the break, and will probably be pleased with your initiative.

4) Learn to be more resourceful ...you're a marine, damnit.

most professors are horrible at returning e-mails in my experience.

 

[Tink!]

the past few semesters i've gone in to purchase my books a week early. this gives me 2 benifits. one is if i have to take my kids, i don't have to deal with big crowds. the other is that if the book is horribly overpriced, i can just write down the ISBN and order it online. it has been my experience that if the book is priced over $50 in the school bookstore, i'll save $10-20 ordering it online. under $50 and i just buy it at the bookstore. it's faster.

there's only 2 ways to find out what books i need. one is to go to class and get the syllabus. the other is to go into the bookstore and find it in there.

so i figure today i'll go down and start my book shopping. semester starts next Monday, so today would be a great day to get started and if i had to order any books online, they'd be here by Tuesday next week or so. perfect.

stopped at a buddy's house on the way down to campus and hung out for a while. he called the bookstore to make sure they were open. they said no then he asked when students can come down and start buying books....SATURDAY.


so what does this mean, you ask? well, since Saturday is the first day we can go in and start finding books and the semester starts on Monday, that leaves no time to order books online. this, my friends, was done on purpose.

me and my buddy are mad as hell about this. it's a fucking rip off. last semester i took an electronics class. the bookstore wanted $115 for the book new, they had no used ones (which if they did would've been $85). i ordered the book online for $70 shipped. since the bookstore was open a week early and i could find out what the book was, i had it the first day of classes.

so yeah, ok, i could just wait, right? well, every semester i end up having 2 classes where i need the book during the first week. with my luck, it will be the outrageously overpriced ones this time. fucking bullshit.

fuck the god damn university.

so i took some aggression out on my rental car i don't feel any better though. i need to go take out more aggression on the rental car

HHHmm...so what your sayen is your pissed?

 

[Buddy_Christ]

HHHmm...so what your sayen is your pissed?

mebbe.

 

[Tink!]

LOL..just checken

 

[Spanky11]

yeah my bookstore does this too. They purposely wait for stinking forever, before they sell books, just to force the students to buy them from the store.

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.

 

[jerkbox]

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.....