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textbooks are awesome. make your parents buy them, sell them back and pocket the cash.
if you play it right, that is the only item that can actually overpay you
textbooks are awesome. make your parents buy them, sell them back and pocket the cash.
education in general.
The real scam is those ing bookstores pulling a gamestop and giving you for what you're selling back followed by an insane markup. One time i was selling a book back and they were going to give me $12. One of the employees said they could use those for second half of semester, they did something in the computer and i ended up getting $70. If that lady didn't say anything, i would have gotten $12.
Also I'll buy concessions in the movie theater, i just won't pay for the movie. Studios get like 90% of the box office take and concessions are so high cause the theater has to make up the money that way.
or even better. don't buy them at all, either steal them from distracted classmates or flirt with the fat chick sittin next to you and borrow ittextbooks are awesome. make your parents buy them, sell them back and pocket the cash.
8. iTunes downloads
Sure, you think they're a great deal b/c you don't have to buy a whole CD any more. But what is the 'real' cost of a download? It's basically pure profit for the copyright holder and Apple.
I don't know man. $1 for a song that you want vs. typically $16 for 4 songs that you want
I download songs for free.
the whole apple corporation is ing overpriced. everything. their products, their stock prices, their financials
paying for a song EVER is too much
thats hardcore.
The hate for professors and school bookstores isn't really warranted. Most of the professors I've encountered have gone out of their way to look for cheaper books, to get text information to students early enough to buy in advance, and/or provide PDFs of pertinent articles. And school bookstores are pretty much powerless in the textbook thing; they save the wallet raping for apparel and other useless crap with the school's logo/mascot.
The textbook bull is almost entirely publishers. And it's ridiculous. Publishers will often make it nearly impossible to work with an older edition of a text once a new one has been released.
How does that work? You sneak in?
Not gonna tell you what I do, just rest assured I rarely ever pay for movies.
Really? The publishers make them give us jack for our used books?
I would say your date pays but.....
mediafire is your friend.
Well I could be a super cheapass and just redbox it but only tightwads......oh wait
I didn't mean to imply that the bookstores were perfect. They could probably stand to give a better return on book buybacks. How much the publisher is going to get from the sale of that book next semester is likely a big consideration when determining how much they give, though.
If you redbox or torrent it, that kinda invalidates your argument that you will buy concessions but will not pay for movies.
Well, the textbook publishers better enjoy it while they can...rumor has it Amazon/Kindle is looking at getting into textbooks.
I don't buy text books unless it's absolutely necessary. I have yet to fail a class in which I didn't buy the book. I've had professors tell us that they wrote the book but the used versions are readily available on Amazon. They thank those who got new books and tell others if they're strapped for cash then go searching online.
There are plenty of redbox tightwads out there and yes, plenty of old virgins too. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Go sick and tired of overpaying for textbooks--finally got smart a few years ago and just see what they have online/at the library. Saves me a ton.
My sister-in-law downloads (either renting or buying) most of her textbooks to her Kindle from Barnes and Noble. I thought their selection would be limited to basic, undergrad curriculum textbooks, but last weekend I downloaded 2 epidemiology textbooks for my hubby's Ph.D. program.
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