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So my classes start up again and this coming Wednesday is the 2nd class and I need to get the book. Even though the classes are off-site---the campus bookstores stock the books...obviously. At least they did last semester. I went to the campus Saturday.. the book store was closed. They closed at 1:00pm Damn. I get back to the car--check the time, 1:01pm. Bastards. So today..I think I'm all slick and call first to verify that they are, in fact, open. True. Some guy answers and says they are open till 1. I get to the bookstore and I get the normal.. "Can I hep ya?" "Yes--I'm looking for 'An Introduction to Management Science' by Anderson, Sweeney and Williams" "Ohh..We aren't selling books yet." "What? I called this morning and nobody mentioned that!" "Did you ask?" "I'M SUPPOSED TO ASK A BOOKSTORE IF THEY SELL BOOKS?" "They don't go on sale until next Monday for the spring semester" "My classes have started already" That is sort of how the conversation went. They started asking some questions regarding the class and offered some useful help. Turns out they didn't have the book anyway..and couldn't even find the book on their systems. nice job. So I just ordered it for 20% less on amazon. Ok..end of story.
Those bookstores rip you off something terrible, they seem to remake the book every year, just using the latest examples. This means you cant buy the books second hand! And new they cost a stupid amount of money for the amount of book you get!
Si 'Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them' - Aristotle
I usually spend around $250 on books. After I buy them I look at them all and think, "Man, this is the semester that I read every one of them and absorb them!"
Then I must kick them them into a black hole, or something, because I never see them again. -Mike Go listen to my band. We're awesome. http://www.myspace.com/rosencrantzny weallgotwoodandnails
I have barely even looked at my textbooks. At least I will be able to sell them mint. Or not! Does anyone else think it is completely insane how every year they change the book in some way so we have to buy the new version, meaning new students can't get books cheap, and returning students can sell their books!
Well I suppose as a business student I can appreciate this, still it screws me over. Si 'Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them' - Aristotle
I'm going to look on Amazon.com for the ones for one of my classes. The prof. said if it takes a week to get them from there then it's worth it to save the money. Yeah, I always think I'll keep caught up on the reading but I never do.
"It's not always rainbows and butterflies it's compromise that moves us along"
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