Online Used Booksellers...who's good, who's not?

sagelola · Aug 15, 2003

Camkib...there should be. That doesn't seem right. Isn't that like a monopoly. You know, especially for students receiving FA, they need the money and they shouldn't be told they HAVE to buy a book at the most expensive place!!

Someone mentioned on another post that they were having some kind of troubles with the way their school administered FA, so they contacted the Dept of Ed, I think...I'll go back and see if I can find that post, maybe it could help you? :confused:

Yeah, just went back and looked...that's who it is. It is on page 2 of the BB, and it is under FINANCIAL AID WOES...Post #8. I don't know how difficult it would be for you to get anything done, but maybe it is worth a shot. Especially if you could get some other people to complain, too?

angelac1978 · Aug 15, 2003

you can also go to http://www.textbooks.com

I think it is run by Barnes and Noble, the prices are pretty much the same as Amazon and the others. Also, try checking the publisher's website, I did this with my books and didn't have to worry about waiting for my books to be in stock, they had them all and shipped them out with free shipping.

A

manna, BSN, RN · Aug 15, 2003

Yeah, I've had financial aid problems here too.

Not to mention the rant I wrote in my blog about the campus bookstore yesterday.

I've always ordered textbooks from Amazon and have had no problems yet *knock on wood*. In fact, I just placed an order today - also went ahead and picked up a couple of Echo Heron's books and some others that had been on my wishlist for a while.

I've also sold my used textbooks thru Amazon (pretty good luck there so far), and textbuyer.com (convenient for a quick $ fix, if they'll take the book)

angelac1978 · Aug 15, 2003

oh and I forgot to add, I got a 10% discount from the publisher so all told, I saved almost $150 by not going to the bookstore.

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allthingsbright · Aug 15, 2003

the two best i've found:

http://www.half.com

http://www.powells.com

meandragonbrett · Aug 15, 2003

Half.com is the best! I've bought all of my book sfrom there. I can get brand new books for quite a bit less than the used ones in the bookstore. My A&P book was $160 (used) in the bookstore and I got it from half for 70 bucks brand new !! It's great!

Brett