I just charged some sucker over $500 for textbooks...ask me anything.

[JVS]

:D

[Endangered Specie]

1. Hell, the other guys were charging 10% more!

edit: DIE YOU CAPITALIST GREEDY PIGS! (j/k) ;)

[JVS]

3. Are you going to sell them back?

I never do, just out of principle. I would rather pass up the $10 per book just to know that those assholes will not ever profit again off of the same book that I was economically assraped for.

[Endangered Specie]

4. I really can't they are important to my major...

and the editions change so often I doubt id get much.

I only sell back intro/non-major related books.

[JVS]

6. Oh yeah. Any book for the major, especially technical majors...

should be kept.

Don't sell back the other books though. It only helps those parasitic merchants. An Art history book can make a good coffee table book. A sociology book can make a good book for when you're on the can. To help them rip off the next person for the paltry amount they give is an insult that I refuse to suffer.

[Wickerman]

9. Business books are good for doorstops

and that is about it.

[Endangered Specie]

10. Well, one of the sellbacks on a book I couldnt have cared less about...

was something like 60% back, I couldnt resist that. But, since Im done with mostthe garbage classes (intro stuff, dumb humanities) I wont be.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Hope its not for this place

(From Calpundit)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/08/09/private.school.invest.ap/index.html

Examples:

The United States has 53 states but the "flag has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of the last three states" -- Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.

World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942.

There are two houses of Congress -- the Senate and the House, and "one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively

[Endangered Specie]

5. *sound of jaw hitting linolium floor*

[RobertSeattle]

8. Calpunit seems to think it is intentional

Some low life intentionally trying to make immigrants stupid.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_08/004477.php

[cheezus]

7. By sophomore year, I never bought books

until at least well into the semester, if I needed it. I noticed that having the book really made no difference for most classes -- some even had you buy a $150 textbook that you never cracked.

Screw that.