By futuregigolo - 22/12/2012 00:11 - United States - Strasburg

Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
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Markg1994 0

You should have asked to clarify whether she said "$350" or "3.50".

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saksxalmo 20

This is why you always buy textbooks secondhand... I learned that the hard way.

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Monkcoon 7

Find out how much they sell for now in bookstores, price them 10 bucks under that and put up flyers at your college. students will buy

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Squirrel1256 15

Oh yes, textbook stores only exist to rip you off, I agree with the people saying to sell online.

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Squirrel1256 15

Nothing to see here... Seriously though, I imagine he was enjoying it when be thought it was the cat.

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qwerty___89 6

You should have sold them online, would have made more than 3.50. I know that for sure

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MEM0817 18

You still got almost double what OP got and off of only one book. So realistically, OP has the right to whine with your story in comparison.

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chottu 16

I don't understand, why did you accept so little? I buy most of my books (with the exception of recently updated ones) second hand and then sell those books online after the semester for roughly the same amount I bought them for! So essentially I break even after the semester (or on occasion it's possible to make profit if you pick them up cheap enough). I would keep these comments in mind next semester :)

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SilentRhapsody 13

Seriously, take this advice. It's how you should do things.

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lowshadows 21

people use textbooks and their supposedly written by people experience in the field not some rich smartass. they should be worth more, hate those *******.

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Frustrated78 11

You could have made way more money if you had sold them on Ebay or Amazon. Also look on those sites for books you need to buy. Never buy new if you can help it.

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Kaerunoutof 3

It ls useful for you to have the textbook.

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SilentRhapsody 13

You, my friend, just got taken for a ride. You could have sold those on the internet for much, much, much more than 3.50. Text book sellers are notorious lowballers.

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