Textbook deals?

[cdietschrun]

It's that time, my bookstore has stocked the books for the next semester at school, and of course I get a good laugh when I look at the prices. What are good sites to look for specific versions/editions of books that you need besides half.com/amazon marketplace? Just looking for ideas.

[iowaholdem]

half.com or chegg.com are great resources. I just dropped 680 bones for my text books today. I'm going to check those sites now to see if I can order online and return these copies to the store. $680, fuck that, that's ridiculous.

[shinryuu]

campusi.com

Compares the prices (similar to PriceGrabber) when you input the ISBN or whatever. Usually they update the price right away, but doublecheck the sites just in case cause that book might've sold on that day or whatnot.

[CHARYODA]

Another good site to try is textbooksrus.com they also buy back and they will sell international edition of tech related (I.E. computer science) books when they are available (which is great because it's the same book at a tiny price).

As for the other suggestions I love half.com, used it quite often and with mostly great results.

Good luck shaving some $$ off the cost.

[iowaholdem]

I just was able to contact 4 people that I found on half.com and chegg.com that go to my university to see if they want to sell their books to me outside of the websites. I figure it saves time and lots of fees for them if they'll just sell personally.

So that's an idea for you, check those sites for people in your state. Chances are they also go to your university so they'll be in the area. No sense in paying half.com or shipping if a deal can be made one-to-one.

[MrDubbs]

What I do, is go to the bookstore, and write down the ISBN's of the books that I need.

Then I go to gettextbooks.com and type in the ISBN's, and it gives a rundown of about 10-15 stores on average depending on the book, from cheapest to most expensive in the different stores. *of course watch out for INTL editions unless you don't care about that*

My bookstore wanted 600 for my last semesters books, I picked up my books online doing just that for 200 shipped all

[cdietschrun]

Cool, good feedback. Thanks all.

[Xiados]

To me half.com sucks. A lot. Most the books I buy there take almost two weeks to get here. Of course there's those people who sell books that "don't check their account" often. And in one case I never recieved a book even though this person was on to mark it chipped at one point. I had to file a claim since I didn't even need the book anymore.

Can't argue it's cheapness. Though I also hear Abebooks is good. And from what I looked at for my book this semester, a lot cheaper than anywhere else.

[Reality's Fringe]

addall.com

You're welcome.

[ratzombie]

Nice, thanks everyone.

[MrSneis]

I've picked up a good trick over the years; see if you can buy previous editions.

Some teachers aren't anal about being up on the newest textbook version and if you buy the prebious edition they're usually less than $10 shipped!

[CocheseUGA]

I've always had luck with Amazon.

Chegg? If you check out 75% of the books, it's ones Chegg is selling themselves.

[Surferflames]

I've picked up a good trick over the years; see if you can buy previous editions.

Some teachers aren't anal about being up on the newest textbook version and if you buy the prebious edition they're usually less than $10 shipped!
That's what I'm doing this year. I don't think I'd even go through the hassle of selling something for what people on amazon let old editions go for.

Also search the publishers websites for digital/bargain editions. Sometimes they even sell them chapter by chapter.

[captainfrizo]

I've picked up a good trick over the years; see if you can buy previous editions.

Some teachers aren't anal about being up on the newest textbook version and if you buy the prebious edition they're usually less than $10 shipped!

You need to be careful though because of the questions at the end of a chapter or homework segments in math book change a bit from edition to edition you'll be getting real low scores on any graded homework.

Most teachers are pretty good at letting you know if previous editions are pretty compatible with the new editions in that regard.

[tuaamin13]

The best time to buy is Summer because everyone is trying to dump their textbooks. I know my roommate threw out 3 books because he didn't want them and the bookstore wouldn't take them back (they were completely filled). I picked up one of the books and sold it on half.com for $10. Free money^^

Anywho, I was seeing books go for like $5-10 instead of $150 because EVERYBODY wanted to sell. Now you can't get it for less than $80. Good time to sell now, bad time to buy.

Check with your school and see if they have a textbook trading site. I know Georgia Tech has one offered by SGA. You can trade/sell books with other students who probably had the same classes as you. Also check with the near campus bookstore. Sometimes they're higher, but you can also save like $10 per book.

My gf told me about directtextbook.com It's another one of those textbook price comparing sites. It also shows buyback values.

[SpazX]

I used to buy everything from half.com, but this semester I just bought all my books new from amazon (except one). It's sad because the amazon prices with free shipping were around the same as "like new" plus shipping on half.com. Sometimes they were even less.

[avidgamer33]

I found out the hard way buying books at the bookstore is a rip off! I spent over $500 a semester on books. I found out using a book price comparison search engine is the way to go to get discount books (http://www.smartbookfinder.com). They compare book prices at the major on-line bookstores (Amazon, Half, Barnes & Noble, etc.) and find the lowest price. The one I like the most is SmartBookFinder.com, http://www.smartbookfinder.com. (http://www.smartbookfinder.com) They also have a cool book buyback comparison feature so you can find out where to sell you book for the most money and a book rental comparison feature. The key is definitely to shop around, and with all these free comparison engines on-line, it does not make sense to buy at the bookstore anymore. Also, try to buy used if you can and make sure the seller has a good reputation.

[speedracer]

www.bigwords.com

[orpheus2708@gmail.co]

addall.com

You're welcome.

very nice site, over the summer, needed a Physics books which runs about 200 dollars new. Used the site and found it for 13 dollars used (cant tell a difference though)

[moojuice]

Tag for future reference.

[rmb]

http://www.bookfinder.com/

[Fuzi0n]

Last semester I bought my math book from one of amazon's private sellers for like $42, then threw it up on ebay when I was done and the auction went up to $85. Check out amazon, half or one of those other sites that come up on googles search for new and used text books.