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Old 09-02-2009, 11:18 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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try bigwords.com

They'll search online for you, and find you the cheapest price, including shipping. When I used to use it, most of the cheapest books were from either half.com or amazon.com, but sometimes you get lucky somewhere else. When you checkout (if i remember correctly) it will make a list of books from the same stores so you don't have to check out for every book... for example if it finds you two from half and two from amazon, you only check out twice instead of four times.

 
Old 09-02-2009, 04:14 PM
 
Location: in my mind
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I got almost all mine at Half.com, Amazon, Abebooks.com, or Craigslist. Saved hundreds. I wouldn't even set foot into any "college bookstore" until exhausting all online options.
 
Old 09-02-2009, 08:02 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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chegg.com is the worst possible option ever. someone who would purchase books without any returned value at the end of the semester is beyond me.

what i do, and for future reference to you if you really want to save: just buy the textbooks at a bookstore, and put it on a credit card during that time. they'll normally have like a 2 week leeway to return them for a full refund. during that time buy those same books off amazon or half.com etc, then return the books you got at the bookstore when the others come in the mail.

at the beginning of the next semester you should be able to sell them at a similar price. good luck.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 07:57 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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chegg.com is the worst possible option ever. someone who would purchase books without any returned value at the end of the semester is beyond me.

what i do, and for future reference to you if you really want to save: just buy the textbooks at a bookstore, and put it on a credit card during that time. they'll normally have like a 2 week leeway to return them for a full refund. during that time buy those same books off amazon or half.com etc, then return the books you got at the bookstore when the others come in the mail.

at the beginning of the next semester you should be able to sell them at a similar price. good luck.
I paid $38 to rent a textbook I don't ever want to read again after the class is over. Better than paying $90 on Amazon and taking the risk that the book won't be bought back at the end of the semester.

Isn't buying books at the bookstore, then getting those at amazon.com morally wrong? That's my point of view but to each his own.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Smalltown, USA
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I paid $38 to rent a textbook I don't ever want to read again after the class is over. Better than paying $90 on Amazon and taking the risk that the book won't be bought back at the end of the semester.

Isn't buying books at the bookstore, then getting those at amazon.com morally wrong? That's my point of view but to each his own.
I agree with you totally. My daughter rented her books from chegg.com too She rented three books for $106. The Calculus book alone was $180 to purchase.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:41 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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It depends on the subject matter though. A co worker visited chegg.com and she's doing a Masters in Education and the books she was looking for were about the same price as Amazon. Mine is Public Administration and there's not much demand/stock for them.
$180 for a Calculus book; Yikes! Glad she found a deal! Good luck to her on the rest of her studies!
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Smalltown, USA
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It depends on the subject matter though. A co worker visited chegg.com and she's doing a Masters in Education and the books she was looking for were about the same price as Amazon. Mine is Public Administration and there's not much demand/stock for them.
$180 for a Calculus book; Yikes! Glad she found a deal! Good luck to her on the rest of her studies!
Thanks . So is that not the normal price? $180? This is her freshman year so we are new to this. I thought that was high too but I figured books just cost a lot. That price was at amazon. the book is Calculus & Analytic Geometry by Stein (5th edition).
I'm scared to see what her books are going to cost when she becomes a Senior.

edit: I rented the book at chegg for $9.99
 
Old 09-03-2009, 09:22 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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Thanks . So is that not the normal price? $180? This is her freshman year so we are new to this. I thought that was high too but I figured books just cost a lot. That price was at amazon. the book is Calculus & Analytic Geometry by Stein (5th edition).
I'm scared to see what her books are going to cost when she becomes a Senior.

edit: I rented the book at chegg for $9.99
I've seen ranges in prices of books all over the place, from $25 to a instructor booklet only available at the school's bookstore to $220 for a law book. Law book price according to co workers hubby who's doing law school right now.
I did business as an undergrad and the highest one I had was about $120 and there was no chegg back then and amazon didn't have the book. EEK!
 
Old 01-31-2010, 08:38 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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