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Originally Posted by Moogs
There was some commentary about this very thing in an earlier thread. Total scam. I can remember buying texts for like $80, they'd buy 'em back for like $18 and resell them as "Used" for $60. And worst of all they'd always give us a stack of two dollar bills (probably counterfeit). If you're going to ream me for every buy back, at least have the common decency to use 10 and 5 dollar bills you bungholes!
I say boycott all college text buy-back programs. It is better to make nothing on it, and donate it to your local library, than it is to let them scalp you repeatedly, semester after semester. Ideally, if you find someone who is taking the class after you, you sell it for $10 less than the used price. Then the Buy-back program gets reamed.
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Amen. Although the text industry is high priced, that does not compare to the price gauging Follett (The bookstore operator on probably 90+% of campuses) participates in. There is the true evil... I mean, just buying straight from amazon (new!) typically saves 20% over the bookstore on my campus. And the supplies are twice as much as you might find at a typical office supply store.
At least the internet is starting to shake things up. Between buying used and campus book-trading community sites that are popping up on many campuses, I hope they start to feel the squeeze.