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Fuck books.

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VT_FLO
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i looked at my books from the uvm bookstore. Price was 800$

Half.com price=320$
Aug 15 2009 2:45PM
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VT_FLO
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so the morale of the story is don't buy books from your university
Aug 15 2009 2:45PM
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ski@jaypeak2
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As long as its the same book they are selling at the book store yu can sell it back to them too!!
Aug 15 2009 2:47PM
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skier_boy26
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for like 1/100th of what you paid.

yea, don't but your books at the university, unless its some wicked low-printed book that they only carry in which case you're fucked. Libraries are good, too, if they have the exact book. amazon, half, ebay, you name it. fuck university bookstores
Aug 15 2009 2:49PM
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Thenowhereman42
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I buy my books on ebay, then sell them on ebay at the beginning of the next semester, and they end up costing me basically nothing.
Aug 15 2009 3:12PM
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Goglines
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you know what sucks, when the professors write their own $200 textbooks so you HAVE to get them from the school bookstore because they're nowhere to be found online.

but other than that, i saved a ton on half.com. i like that site.
Aug 15 2009 3:31PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Funny thing is the only time thats happened to me so far was in a Jujitsu class.
Aug 15 2009 3:38PM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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haha i hear ya man. the uvm bookstore really does rip you off. I just eneded up getting most of mine from amazon. only bad thing is they don't let you sell the books back to them.
Aug 15 2009 5:08PM
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k-rob
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read that. it basically describes how the textbook market is a bunch of bullshit, and how they rip people off more and more every year for no reason except that they can, because there isn't a law saying they can't.
Aug 15 2009 5:21PM
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k-rob
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fuck.

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2008/04/youve_just_started_your_freshm.html
Aug 15 2009 5:22PM
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