I am currently a college senior. I have recently decided to go back to school after working in telecommunications for nearly 7 years. I am looking forward to finally finishing what I started almost a decade ago in the next few months.
College students live on a budget, there are many costs, most of us end up with 30,000 or more in debt, yet the University and other college bookstores are far from helping when it comes to used textbook prices. Bookstores seem to make massive profits off of textbooks, yet, students, who are always strapped for cash seem to get nothing for these books. In any other industry, people would not just stand by and pay these horrible prices, why is it that college students just "take it"?
Textbook buybacks for college students is usually a good thing, after the end of the semester, you get enough money to go on a trip, a night or two out on the town and essentially get to blow off some steam. The problem is that, for many of us, we sell back 700, 800 or more worth of books for just a few hundred (if we are lucky) dollars. There are some better ideas out there of how you can get more money for your textbooks, but it requires some patience and to postpone that immediate gratification of getting a couple bucks for your textbooks that you could be getting 2 or 3 times more for just by waiting or using a couple of tricks that I will outline in the following.
I am currently a college senior. I have recently decided to go back to school after working in telecommunications for nearly 7 years. I am looking forward to finally finishing what I started almost a decade ago in the next few months.
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