By defrauded - 08/03/2013 18:44 - United Kingdom - Oban

Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
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littlemonster94 15

You can't trust the system! Throw it on the ground! Okay, I'm sorry.

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Catkam623 27

Buy it, then take a picture of every page, put it on the Internet charge 1$ for an acc. Make money.

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jezombie 22

Burn it in front of the professor. :D

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starbunnytwinkle 3

The professor probably wouldn't care anyways, after all, he still got her money...

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DanielT1994 19

I like 2's thinking. It's still disrespectful, just like what the professor's doing. Respect is a two-way street. If he's not going to give it to OP, he doesn't deserve it back. Although, going that out of the way to try and disrespect him might be a little drastic.

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Gregory607 1

Nah, photocopy it mass produce it and sell it at £20 a peice

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enbliss 10

This is only the beginning, you will soon find out that the world is filled with selfish greed

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Catkam623 27

Buy it, then take a picture of every page, put it on the Internet charge 1$ for an acc. Make money.

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enormouselephant 15

Or partner up with a group and make photocopies:)

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ironichalibut 24

34- The perfect 3 point plan. Idea, Market, Profit. You'd pass an economics class with a model like this. Except that it's illegal, but no one's watching them so who's watching you?

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license2chill 5

On one hand, very smart, recouping the losses, on the other, the prof can sue you for copyright, since you are making a profit from it. What I would suggest is that, the whole class only buys one book, scan it to PDFs, and distribute between classmates discretely.

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klutz44 28

I doubt the book is copyrighted because the professor printed and stapled it together at home. Scan away!

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EwahWeeWah 21

That's genius and fullproof... OP should definitely do that.

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misspulkadot24 17

Hey, they have the power to give or take that passing grade to let you graduate. With great power comes great responsibility...and apparently publishing rights.

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fleckney26 25

In the UK, the teacher does not decide on your grade, they mark your tests, but a handful are sent off for moderation to ensure he is giving fair grades to everyone.

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Sandsh8rk 36

Shovw the book up the professor's ass, since the book is full of shit.

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accioshannon 17

I feel as if that's a "last resort" course of action.

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DanielT1994 19

According to OP, he pulled it out of his ass. It would only be fair to put it back where it belongs.

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ihaveasushicat 24

Well if he wrote it, he will probably teach out of it. And if it's a piece if shit, like you claim, at least it will be easy to study and past his class?

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Ultimate_No 7

College professors love selling students their book and then never actually using it just to make extra cash

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1PersonIsMyWorld 22

9-- what's a sushi cat?

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fleckney26 25

No, because in England it is a national test, so if the teacher teaches the wrong thing, you'll fail the test

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Ebola_fml 20

Some publishing companies give rewards to professors who require their book. I had a few classes that we never even needed to open required books for the course.

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lubbockgaymale 7

The great higher education system at work! I had a professor in a masters' level BA course require we purchase a $60 'manual' at a copy center.... turns out it was all photocopies of articles from business magazines, some over 20 yrs old!, and I later found out he got 50% of the sales back in his pocket! Of course, he didn't lecture on any of the material, and it was never in a test. Oh, and the 'manual' couldn't be sold back as a used text, of course!!!!

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