Dropped $650 at the campus bookstore today...

[HAZ-Matt]

... and I didn't even get any books!

Big ticket items were:

Diagnostic kit w/ nasal speculum -> $401.95

Littmann Cardiology III Stethoscope -> $133.95

Also picked up a sphygmomanometer, latex gloves, apron, dissection kit, eye card, pen light, tuning fork, and a percussion hammer. The kicker is that all of this stuff was on sale and all of it is non-returnable.

[ August 25, 2004, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: HAZ-Matt ]

[MustangEater8251]

ouch...

I thought it was rough I picked up a used book today for $110.

[hawgs]

You'll wipe your *** with 650 bucks once you finish though.

[RallyRed 98]

i hope you remember this feeling when it comes to charging me for my future alzheimer's treatments

[BobsSilverSix]

Originally posted by hawgs:
You'll wipe your *** with 650 bucks once you finish though.

I hope not...

[HAZ-Matt]

Yeah, that really wasn't the plan...

[Brett Garret]

$635 was the most I've ever dumped on books and that was last fall semester. The textbook market is retarded IMO. I work at the TCU bookstore and I've seen kids drop close to $900 at least 5 times. Those book vendors are sick sick men I tell you.

[HAZ-Matt]

I haven't actually bought any books yet, but the good news is that the textbooks are cheaper for med school than they were for undergraduate.

[Th3 RiCk]

DON'T BUY BOOKS ON CAMPUS!!!! You have friends right? Trade books whenever possible. Look on all the bookstores online. They sell used books too, usually a lot cheaper than what you can find used at the bookstores. I guess this really doesn't apply to you HAZ-Matt, but to everyone else who drops 7 or 800 in books.

[MTMike]

Amazon.com for books

Buy them for half the price of your campus book store, then sell them for what you paid for them.

[Dojo2000]

My university has a textbook rental system. Almost all hardcovers and some softcovers are available for rental. The rental fee is included in our tuition.

[916Topherv6]

if your buying text books for college u might as well come prepared. bring a nice size tube of KY, a condom(dont want an STD!), and your 650 dollars, walk up to the cashier hand him the KY the condom and the money, then turn around and bend over, cuz u just got @$$ raped for some books

[imported_admin]

Originally posted by MTMike:
Amazon.com for books

Buy them for half the price of your campus book store, then sell them for what you paid for them.

???

I buy most of my books from amazon just because I can but they're only $5-$10 cheaper.

The key to buying cheap books is to not buy the bundled packages that come with useless crap like study guides, companion CD's, student pages, etc. Who actually uses that garbage? For my cost accounting class last semester the text alone was $86 but everyone had run out by the time I got around to buying... I ended up paying $125 for the text plus study guide plus working papers. Bull.

What I don't understand is how in a free market system that sort of oligopoly is possible. I work for a book publisher and we print elementary school titles... for $7-$14 a book. Yes, these are hardbound with thousands of licensed illustrations. Granted, you have R&D costs and royalties for using intellectual property (photos of the Taj Mahal, etc.), but that falls off after a year or so of sales. But college book publishers make a new edition every 2-3 years just so they can justify their outrageous prices.

[jc Kyle]

www.bookscentral.com
or it could be bookcentral.. basically a europe based company that sells new books at half the cost. The reason being is tha publishers sell books CHEAPER in Europe than they do here. All our in english and identical to the ones you get here. Just cheaper. Big publishers tried closing them down, but they argue free enterprise.. we'll see!

[TheV6Bird]

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