Sticking it to the Man

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:16 pm

So Friday was my last regular day of classes for this semester. Finals start on Monday, and for me, that means cash money, because that's when textbook buybacks start.

Some people online tell me that their school's textbook buyback policy is barely worth the time, and if that's true, ours is extremely generous. If I'm the first one in line on the first day, I can easily score more than two hundred dollars from a semester's textbooks (the prices go down as they go on, due to the demand falling).

What's really nice (for me) is that I get my textbooks on scholarship, so they didn't cost me anything in the first place. Then the end of the semester comes around, and it might as well be free money.

So, yes, I'm sticking it to the Man. It's just a shame the Man is getting his own right back, because all of that money is going to help pay for my summer classes.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:54 pm

Some people online tell me that their school's textbook buyback policy is barely worth the time

Some schools are bitches to the 'new edition' scam, which really hurts any textbook buy-back program.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:12 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:
Some people online tell me that their school's textbook buyback policy is barely worth the time
Some schools are bitches to the 'new edition' scam, which really hurts any textbook buy-back program.

I still have my first science textbook because of that. But I can score something like a half or a third of a book's price, and someone I talk to online says he can get, at most, 10%.